DDT Ban

Almost a half billion people contract malaria each year. Over a million of them die. DDT is the most effective weapon against malaria. But it was banned. Was that decision based on faulty research?

Historical Perspective

• Fred Soper and the Global Malaria Eradication Programme
• Remembering Silent Spring and its Consequences
• DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud
• DDT, Fraud, and Tragedy
• Ruckelshaus, Carson, and DDT
• 100 Things you should know about DDT
• Mosquitoes, DDT, and Human Health
• 'Global Warming' as Pathological Science
• Facts versus Fears: DDT
• The Excellent Powder: DDT's Political and Scientific History by Richard Tren and Donald Roberts
  • From Wonder Chemical to Environmental Pariah -- and Back Again
  • The Excellent Powder: DDT in Book Review
  • DDT Danger: The Myth That Kills
• EPA Pesticide Bans Threaten You and the Economy
• Why Didn't We Know?

Where is the Cost Benefit Analysis for Banning DDT?

Cost = Needless death of 30 million innocent young children

Benefit = Negligible

• DDT...A Second Look
• We Have But One Thing to Fear: Fear Itself, Part II
• Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
• What’s Bugging You?
• The Real Face of DDT
• The Return of DDT
• Malaria deaths hugely underestimated
• DDT, Malaria Control and Anti-Chemicals Advocacy: A Response to the 'Pine River Statement'
• Malaria, DDT, and Desperation in Uganda
• About Those Malaria Goals
• Anti-Insecticide Extremists need to be 'Punk'd'
• How Bad Science opened Door for Malaria
• The Deadly War Against DDT
• On World Malaria Day, recognizing its grim toll
• Malaria in pregnancy leads to cognitive defects in offspring
• Malaria costs India Rs 11,640 crore yearly, dengue Rs 6,000 crore

Genocide by Environmental Activist

• Green Hands Dipped In Blood: The DDT Genocide
• Pro-Malaria Forces Resurface at WHO
• Bring Back DDT, and Science With It!
• DDT in NYT: The Unfinished Agenda
• DDT, the Banned Lifesaver
• Battling Malaria in Uganda
• Killing the Malaria Killer
• Murder by Malaria: The Malthusian War Against DDT
• Environmental Protection Groups Lied And Millions Died
• How Many Children Did Carson’s Green Lies Kill?
• Greens lie, Africans die
• Dog lovers and baby killers
• Green groups continue to oppose malaria control strategies
• Radical environmentalist groups continue to rail against DDT, killing millions
• Radical Environmentalism's Death Campaigns

Ban / De Facto Ban on DDT

• The DDT Ban Turns 30 - Millions Dead of Malaria Because of Ban, More Deaths Likely
• DDT Ban is Genocidal
• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Drive to Increase DDT Use in Malaria War has Stalled
• Malaria Control: Malawi's Health Authorities, Tobacco Industry at War
• South African Scientists Oppose European Union Pesticide Rules
• New European Union Pesticides Regulations will Undermine Fight Against Malaria - New Report
• DDT Cannot Kill like Malaria
• The United Nations' Retreat From Science in Controlling Malaria
• Malaria, Politics and DDT
• Impact of Anti-DDT Campaigns on Malaria Control
• International advocacy against DDT and other public health insecticides for malaria control
• The United Nations’ Scientific Fraud against DDT
• Anti-DDT campaign has no meat, unless you count baloney
• Experts In Favour Of Tighter Rules For DDT Use Against Malaria
• Why is the UN promoting false data in the fight against malaria?
• The U.N. and Malaria Control
• United Nations Falsehoods Cost Lives
• How DDT could stop the spread of malaria
• Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter
• Use DDT to stop dreadful scale of illness caused by malaria
• EU gets taste of its own medicine
• The United Nations is premature in trying to ban DDT for malaria control
• Malaria fighters speak out to support DDT use
• Activists lose petition on DDT use

Activist Spreading Fear

• Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High
• Africa Fighting Malaria Responds To Berkeley University Study Into DDT And Neurodevelopment In Children
• DDT and Neurodevelopment: Results Inconclusive to Effect Policy Change
• Statement on Pesticide Action Networks Advocacy to Undermine the Use of DDT in Malaria Control
• DDT Backlash Begins
• Dr. Conyers, I Presume
• Inconclusive Study on DDT has Potentially Mortal Consequences
• Rachel Carson's Alarmist Legacy
• DDT Backlash Continues
• Doomsday Postponed
• The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them by Iain Murray
• The Lies of Rachel Carson
• Environmental Working Group (EWG) Fears America's Vegetables
• Rachel Carson: Science Fiction Masquerading as Science
• A Response to the Paper by Riana Bornman, Christiaan de Jager, Zeleke Worku, Paulina Farias and Simon Reif, entitled “DDT and Urogenital Malformations in Newborn Boys in a Malarial Area”
• Dubious Studies Poison War on Malaria
• DDT and Malaria Prevention
• DDT and Urogenital Malformations in Newborn Boys in a Malarial Area
• Demonizing DDT
• We Are the World’s Healthiest Chemophobes
• DDT: Sniffing Out Excellent White Powder
• The Real Face of DDT
• Tim Lambert's smear campaign: A Response from Africa Fighting Malaria
• A Feverish Malthusian Defends Malaria As a Non-Problem
• Better Living Through Chemistry (If Permitted)
• John Stossel - DDT
• Rachel Carson and Al Gore relied on a tobacco denier
• The False Crises of Rachel Carson
  • Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson
• Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
• "Superfund cleanup" - Super waste of money
• New study tries to link Alzheimer’s disease and DDT; media thinks it succeeded
• DDT Causes Reduced Cognitive Ability -- In Journalists
• Green hysteria costs lives

Effectiveness of DDT

• DDT is Only Real Weapon to Combat Malaria
• Fighting a Bigger Foe
• Africa Counts Greatest Successes Against Malaria
• Indoor Residual Spraying and DDT
• How DDT can Stop Millions of Malaria Deaths
• The battle against malaria lies in the balance
• World Health Organization (WHO) report shows 50% decrease in confirmed cases of malaria
• Recognizing the way insecticides work in malaria control – the critical importance of WHO’s position on DDT
• Europe’s inverted priorities lead to devastation in Africa
• Assessment of the effect of insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying for malaria control in three rural kebeles of Adami Tulu District, South Central Ethiopia
• South Africa using its smarts — and DDT — to prevent malaria

Modern DDT Application

• A New Home for DDT
• Indoor Residual House Spraying (IRS): The Basics

Africans / Asians Breaking the Shackles of Colonialism from Environmental Elitists

• Mr President, DDT Will End Malaria
• Indoor Residual Spraying
• Uganda: DDT Sprayed in Oyam
• Without DDT Spraying Malaria will Kill More
• Balancing Risks on the Backs of the Poor
• NMCP to Embark on House Spraying in Foni
• Killing Malarial Mosquitos Now!
• Insecticide or Suffering?
• Government Reintroduces DDT to Eradicate Malaria
• End Environmental Experiments on Africans!
• DDT a potent weapon against malaria
• Africans Tell the UN to Buzz Off
• The Moral High Ground: The Left’s “morally superior” policies kill millions and impoverish billions
• DDT use would save many lives in Uganda

Other Threats

• Science Does Not Justify Ban on DDT
• Zika Virus: Unlikely to Kill, Impossible to be Killed

Bedbugs

• Why it's Time for the Honest Use of Pesticides
• Politicians vs. Pesticides
• New Yorkers Can't Flee City's Bed Bugs – Even in the Hamptons
• Bedbugs: A Modern-Day Leprosy. Seriously
• Bedbugs Not Just Confined to Beds: Infestation Spreading to Subways, Theaters and Hotels
• Bedbugs; The Real Answer!
• Bedbug Misery Spreads to Empire State Building
• If you have Bedbugs, thank Al Gore
• Howard Stern: Bring back DDT!
• New York City Looks to Halt Massive Bedbug Infestation
• Enviro Torture
• Why Billions of Bed Bugs are Biting
• Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite
• Will CNN Bed Bug Infestation Cause MSM to Demand Lifting of DDT Ban?
• Blame government for bedbug bites
• The Bedbug Registry
• The American Dream Didn’t Include Bed Bugs. Part I: The Problem
• The American Dream Didn’t Include Bed Bugs. Part II: The Consequences
• The American Dream Didn’t Include Bed Bugs. Part I1I: The Consequences
• Four Criteria To End Bed Bug Plague
• Doomsday for Pests!
• Plenty of bugs in EPA priorities
• Grant Awards to Support Bed Bug Education: Activity as a Substitute for Accomplishment, Part IV
• Superbug Germ Detected in Bedbugs, Study Finds
• Research is Dandy, but Silver Bullets are Handy
• Bedbugs in Manhattan
• ACSH friend R. Kozlovich’s ode to banned, lifesaving DDT
• Bed bugs and Chagas Disease! Is This a Plague in the Making?

West Nile Virus

• West Nile virus not backing down

Yellow Fever

• Insecticide Spraying Needed To Control Yellow Fever In Paraguay And Brazil
• Move Over Zika, It’s Yellow Fever’s Turn

Dengue Fever

• Save Our Children from Dengue Fever
• Genetically-Modified Aedes Mosquitoes: Lift the Ban on the Use of DDT

Zika

• Mosquito Maladies: A New, Really Nasty Viral Infection
• Will the EPA Cause a Zika Pandemic?
• Stopping Zika Virus in Its Tracks, by Unleashing DDT
• How Poisonous is DDT?
• Science Acceptance: The Urban-Rural Divide
• Zika is Possibly the Scariest Virus Since HIV
• Zika Virus Infections in the Americas and the DDT Question
• Zika: Two Pieces of Bad News For the Price of One
• DDT or DEET to Stop Zika? Not So Obvious
• Are You Sicka Zika? Sorry, 50 US Cities Could See It
• How Environmentalists Opened The Door For Zika
• Got Zika? Thank an Environmentalist
• Organophosphates: Zika Caused Florida To Embrace Insecticides Way More Toxic Than DDT
• As Babies Stricken By Zika Turn 1, Health Problems Mount

 

At least 80 percent of human infectious diseases are arthropod-borne—transmitted by insects, mites, or ticks. They have caused the death of hundreds of millions of people by infecting them with the pathogens that cause typhus, bubonic plague, yellow fever, malaria, dengue fever, sleeping sickness, encephalitis (such as West Nile virus), elephantiasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, Chikungunya virus and yaws. DDT is a miracle chemical compound that can protects millions of people from these deadly scourges. So why is DDT banned?

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