Dear Raptor:
--I did not say anything about a Jewish conspiracy. Your remarks to me smack indiscriminate race baiting.
--I submit for your perusal excerpts from the New York Times article of April 11, 2004. You will find the entire article on the Web at
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/magazine/11DDT.html:The move away from DDT in the 60's and 70's led to a resurgence of malaria in various countries -- Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Swaziland, South Africa and Belize, to cite a few; those countries that then returned to DDT saw their epidemics controlled. In Mexico in the 1980's, malaria cases rose and fell with the quantity of DDT sprayed. Donald Roberts, a professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., has argued that when Latin America stopped using DDT in the 1980's, malaria immediately rose, leading to more than a million extra cases a year. The one country that continued to beat malaria was Ecuador, the one country that kept using DDT.
William Ruckelshaus, the head of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency, banned DDT in 1972. It remains one of the most controversial decisions the E.P.A. has ever taken. Ruckelshaus was under a storm of pressure to ban DDT. But Judge Edmund Sweeney, who ran the E.P.A.'s hearings on DDT, concluded that DDT was not hazardous to humans and could be used in ways that did not harm wildlife. Ruckelshaus banned it anyway, for all but emergencies.
... the central reason that African nations who need DDT do not use it today. Washington is the major donor to W.H.O. and Roll Back Malaria, and most of the rest of the financing for those groups comes from Europe, where DDT is also banned. There is no law that says if America cannot use DDT then neither can Mozambique, but that's how it works. The ban in America and other wealthy countries has, first of all, turned poor nations' agricultural sectors against DDT for economic reasons.
...Then there are chemical companies. ''I get asked all the time -- are you being paid by chemical companies?'' said Thomas DeGregori, a professor of economics at the University of Houston and an advocate for DDT. The question is amusing, because the corporate interests in this issue are actually on the other side. DDT is no longer on patent, and it is known to be made only in India and China -- and the price has soared since the rich-country ban put manufacturers out of business, making it harder for poor countries to buy.
...One of the most depressing aspects of talking about malaria is that you get to hear the phrase ''the powerful AIDS lobby,'' a term no one but a malariologist would use. AIDS in the third world is still criminally underfinanced, but at least it gets some money and a lot of attention. Malaria gets AIDS's dregs. AIDS was a sudden plague, very visible in its choice of victims, and it has a vocal constituency in rich countries. Even in Africa, malaria gets nowhere near the attention of AIDS. It has always been around, and it kills not middle-class adults but rural 4-year-olds, who don't have much of a lobby."
--You stated:
"Oh never mind that DDT was never actually banned for vector control (killing mosquitoes etc) but only for indiscriminate agricultural uses in some countries. It is far more important to engage in blood libel against political opponents then to actually mount a rational argument."
--I never said DDT is was banned in all countries. I said Africans were suffering and extra one to to million deaths a year because they were denied the use of it. You will notice that the NY Times article points out that American environmentalists exert pressure on the World Health Organization which then exerts pressure on the African countries not to use DDT. Also please note the article states that DDT is only known to be made in India and China.
--I think this article pretty much supports my position. If you need more proof you can either search the Web or you can PM me and I will find it for you and PM you about it. That is unless you would also like to accuse the NY Times of being insane Jew hating fascists as well. Best Regards
Clear Ether