And Rachel Carson Claims Another Life

Remember Rachel Carson? No. Well there was a magical chemical called DDT that was great at killing things like mosquitos, beastly little bugs that carry bad shit like malaria and yellow fever and dengue fever. Well that dumb cunt Carson wrote a book chock full of made up "science" and it upset people so much that DDT was stopped and all those mosquitos, on the verge of being wiped out, came back. About a million people a year still die from malaria, people that wouldn't be dead if Carson's father simply got the blowjob he wanted instead of cumming in her mother.

Well, it seem Andy Irons of surfing fame likely has died of dengue fever at the ripe old age of 32. http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/11/02/surfing-legend-andy-irons-dies/

I hope that Carson's version of hell is to constantly die of mosquito-borne diseases over and over and over until the end of eternity while being visited by the people that actually died because of her nonsense.

Not this myth again. DDT resistant strains of mosquitoes were already becoming prevalent by the time DDT use was being phased out. DDT used to be a great insecticide; not so much so anymore. While paranoia about DDT side effects is frequently overblown, the paranoid responses touting its effectiveness are even more overblown.

I always thought that Rachel Carson and "Silent Spring" (the ridiculous book that claimed that DDT caused bird to lay eggs with too thin a shell) has cost the lives of far more people than God and the Holy Bible are blamed for.

You think stupid things.

Did you read that in "Armchair Enviromentalist?"

I thought one of the things that made DDT so popular and widely used was that even if mosquitoes became resistant to it (such that they no longer died on contact), the chemical would still repel them well enough?

Genetically modified mosquitoes for the win!

Another species that DDT very effectively handled and nearly wiped out: Bedbugs.

It was fantastic with black flies as well.

Maine is a nightmare of mosquitoes and black flies in the summer since DDT was suspended.

The "joke" up here is that mosquitoes are the state bird, not the chickadee.

I hear the mosquito's also Minnesota's state 'bird'.

Of course not.

It was tattooed on your mothers hip......

I hope the fuckers enjoy my warfarin filled blood.

Oh-teh-noes! Did Dayton just do a "yomama"-style joke?

I'll trade a surfer and some minor annoyance in the summer for lower rates of diabetes and cancer.

I have diabetes, it is common in my family, and I've conducted a whole ton of research and I can say categorically that no link exists between diabetes and DDT.

Hell, diabetes rates have skyrocketed since DDT was banned.

That's an easy trade off to make when it isn't someone in your family that's dying of easily-preventable malaria.

You don't think that might be because of our horrible diets and sedentary lifestyles, rather than the banning of a pesticide?

Wiki claims that 90% of the 1-3 million people who die of malaria each year are in sub-Saharan Africa. So really what Nick is saying is he'd gladly trade a surfer and 1.5 million black people.

Tell us Nick, what do you have against surfers?

Which kills more people per year? Diabetes or malaria.

The diabetes claim is unfounded...the study was a joke and a half on that one.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18678.cfm

http://dwb4.unl.edu/Chem/CHEM869E/CHEM869ELinks/www.altgreen.com.au/Chemicals/ddt.html

Unconvincing.

The millions of people dead over an environmentalist liar...that's compelling.

http://dwb4.unl.edu/Chem/CHEM869E/CHEM869ELinks/www.altgreen.com.au/Chemicals/malaria_toll.html

Blah, blah, blah.

What I want to know is why Nick hates poor black people.

I'm certain that it is.

Oh I'm sure most people inherit genetic predispositions for it (but then again, they do for most noninfectious diseases) but genetics only takes you so far.

Please, do go on.

The whole ton of him has conducted research. Unfortunately he's immobile and his fingers are too fat for a keyboard, so things have gone slowly. Still, by accident, he's right that the link between DDT and diabetes is tenuous at best. As I said, paranoia about DDT is overblown, even if paranoia about the problems with banning DDT is more overblown.

I love the smell of DDT in the morning.

One of them stole his cell phone once.

It smells like... *inhales* Victory.

Our diets and lifestyles would explain the increasing rates of type 2 diabetes, but what about the increasing rates of type 1 diabetes, of which the cause is unknown.

The state color is orange (as in construction barrels).
The state motto is "Right lane closed ahead."

I spend a lot of time in Maine.

If DDT was toxic and harmful, I wouldn't have been able to drink a glass of it in college to win a bet.

At this time I'd like to point out that my lung cancer was completely unrelated to that incident.