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Ignorance Is Bias
The DDT fiasco. Le Moyne alums. Video meanness. Winter traumas. Plus much more.
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Gerald and Natalie Sirkin reply: This is a rural legend. If one wants to know about the effects of DDT on birds, why would one want to ask farmers when you have scientists and ornithologists who can tell us about them? They testified at the 7-month hearing held by Administrative Law Judge Edmund Sweeney and he concluded that DDT does no harm to wildlife.
p> HARM’S BEEN DONE br> Re: Doug Bandow’s The World Harm Organization : /p> p>I found the above article to be very informative except in one respect. The assertion that “although widespread outdoor use of DDT years ago did have adverse environmental consequences” seems to take a position at odds with numerous articles on the use of DDT published here in the Spectator. Everything I have read concerning the use of DDT is that it is perfectly safe and that no “adverse environmental consequences” could be plausibly tied to its use. Just another case of the big lie? Repeat something loud enough and long enough and people will start to believe it even in the absence of any evidence. br> — Bill White br> Great Mills, Maryland /p> p> BERRIGAN COLLEGE
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