Hah. Well, my hands are already quite full with all those debunkings of the “there’s no anthropogenic global warming and even if there is it’s all China’s fault, or maybe Al Gore’s fault” thingies…

But of course, knowledge is good, unless it’s negative knowledge.

Go to Deltoid (in Scienceblogs – see ‘Tim Lambert’ in the blogroll here) and search for ‘DDT’. There will be links to many academic articles about DDT.

Not as entertaining as propaganda mill BS, but that’s one of the things about being an adult.

In other words, Milloy’s wrong, but he’s still right…?

Goo goo g’joob.

It is, in some sense inevitable, that aid will come with strings attached, and that these strings will be pulled by domestic political forces in the donor countries.

And “the ban” that never existed was implemented by donor countries pulling strings the other way. For instance, the EU will not accept agro imports from countries with detectable levels of DDT. While not de jure ban, this is a de facto ban on agro imports, prohibiting DDT usage, in the same spirit of 40 years of donor countries manipulating who can use DDT.

And to claim that the environmental movement didn’t have a strong say in the change of DDT usage in the 60’s onward is … misinformed at best. But since these arguments continue to be ignored or just shouted down here and at Deltoid, I know that the “at best” is too kind.

Not one of them is qualified toxicologist. It amazes me how a JD degree still trumps a PhD in science.

These AFM folks are belicose nut cases. Why pay them any more attention?