Silent Spring, and Charles Wurster’s stories are for the birds

One of the major complaints in Silent Spring about DDT was its alleged effect on bird populations. The sky is falling! But this, like so many of the claims by environmentalists, needs to be more closely examined before anyone should react. Unfortunately, past experience shows us that Schneider wasn’t alone in his thought processes when [...]

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Milton Millard Fillmore’s bathtub: self-proclaimed “expert” on Rachel Carson and DDT

This guy should really get out of the bathtub.

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Rachel Carson was WRONG

From the Website (click on the image): Cultural myths often stand in the way of human progress—in some cases producing devastating consequences. In fact, today millions of people around the world suffer the painful and often deadly effects of malaria because one person sounded a false alarm. That person is Rachel Carson, author of the [...]

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