Tsunami aftermath

[Michael McKelvy]

The last I heard the total death toll from the massive tidal wave is well
over 100,000. Worse is that many more are likely to die from disease. One
of those diseases is malaria, which has been killing millions since the
banning of DDT worldwide. Most people have heard the reasons for the ban,
but were those reasons based on sound science or hysteria?

Here are some links to articles that think it was not correct to ban DDT.

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Environment/ddt_vs_death.htm

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html

http://www.petrifiedtruth.com/archives/001491.html

Since DDT in tiny amounts can be an effective repellant, do we not owe it to
the people suffering from the effects of the Tsunami, to allow them a better
chance at survival by letting them use DDT to help keep them from being
killed by Malaria?

[Clyde Slick]

"Michael McKelvy" > wrote in message
k.net...
> The last I heard the total death toll from the massive tidal wave is well
> over 100,000. Worse is that many more are likely to die from disease. One
> of those diseases is malaria, which has been killing millions since the
> banning of DDT worldwide. Most people have heard the reasons for the ban,
> but were those reasons based on sound science or hysteria?
>
> Here are some links to articles that think it was not correct to ban DDT.
>
> http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Environment/ddt_vs_death.htm
>
> http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html
>
> http://www.petrifiedtruth.com/archives/001491.html
>
> Since DDT in tiny amounts can be an effective repellant, do we not owe it
> to the people suffering from the effects of the Tsunami, to allow them a
> better chance at survival by letting them use DDT to help keep them from
> being killed by Malaria?
>

Being against the DDT ban is certainly an odd position for a bug eater to
take.

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You really are a stupid, ****ing worthless asshole, aren't you, Art
Sackman? Or did Arny make you do it?




Clyde Slick wrote:
> "Michael McKelvy" > wrote in message
> k.net...
> > The last I heard the total death toll from the massive tidal wave
is well
> > over 100,000. Worse is that many more are likely to die from
disease. One
> > of those diseases is malaria, which has been killing millions since
the
> > banning of DDT worldwide. Most people have heard the reasons for
the ban,
> > but were those reasons based on sound science or hysteria?
> >
> > Here are some links to articles that think it was not correct to
ban DDT.
> >
> > http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Environment/ddt_vs_death.htm
> >
> > http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html
> >
> > http://www.petrifiedtruth.com/archives/001491.html
> >
> > Since DDT in tiny amounts can be an effective repellant, do we not
owe it
> > to the people suffering from the effects of the Tsunami, to allow
them a
> > better chance at survival by letting them use DDT to help keep them
from
> > being killed by Malaria?
> >
>
> Being against the DDT ban is certainly an odd position for a bug
eater to
> take.

[Michael McKelvy]

"Clyde Slick" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Michael McKelvy" > wrote in message
> k.net...
>> The last I heard the total death toll from the massive tidal wave is well
>> over 100,000. Worse is that many more are likely to die from disease.
>> One of those diseases is malaria, which has been killing millions since
>> the banning of DDT worldwide. Most people have heard the reasons for the
>> ban, but were those reasons based on sound science or hysteria?
>>
>> Here are some links to articles that think it was not correct to ban DDT.
>>
>> http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Environment/ddt_vs_death.htm
>>
>> http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html
>>
>> http://www.petrifiedtruth.com/archives/001491.html
>>
>> Since DDT in tiny amounts can be an effective repellant, do we not owe it
>> to the people suffering from the effects of the Tsunami, to allow them a
>> better chance at survival by letting them use DDT to help keep them from
>> being killed by Malaria?
>>
>
> Being against the DDT ban is certainly an odd position for a bug eater to
> take.
>
Nice to know we can count on you for one of your "intelligent" responses.

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Michael McKelvy wrote:
> The last I heard the total death toll from the massive tidal wave is
well
> over 100,000. Worse is that many more are likely to die from
disease. One
> of those diseases is malaria, which has been killing millions since
the
> banning of DDT worldwide. Most people have heard the reasons for the
ban,
> but were those reasons based on sound science or hysteria?
>
> Here are some links to articles that think it was not correct to ban
DDT.
>
> http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Environment/ddt_vs_death.htm
>
> http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html
>
> http://www.petrifiedtruth.com/archives/001491.html
>
> Since DDT in tiny amounts can be an effective repellant, do we not
owe it to
> the people suffering from the effects of the Tsunami, to allow them a
better
> chance at survival by letting them use DDT to help keep them from
being
> killed by Malaria?

Would this be a good time to mention that the POPs Treaty doesn't ban
DDT from any use on any insects carrying any disease in any country,
only from agricultural use? Agricultural use having been in fact the
main reason DDT is not now used for disease control in the tsunami
areas, since by now all the insects are resistant after years of
industrial agricultural spraying?

"Endemic sporadic malaria close to the affected areas transm=ADitted by
An.culicifacies, which has been considered DDT-resistant for=AD many
years"
<http://mosquito.who.int/docs/Asia_tsunami_malaria_risk-v1-5Jan.pdf>

and in fact, the spraying ban from agriculture will help eradicate
malaria, by lowering the rate of development of DDT resistance?
"The outcome of the treaty is arguably better than the statu=AD=ADs quo
going into the negotiations over two years ago. For the firs=ADt time=AD,
there is now an insecticide which is restricted to vector co=ADntrol
onl=ADy, meaning that the selection of resistant mosquitoes wi=ADll be
slower th=ADan before."
<http://www.malaria.org/DDTpage.html>
(These being the folks who actually work at eradicating malaria, rather
than just sitting in front of the computer fulminating about the bad
environmentalists and the nonexistent evil effects of their fictitious
DDT ban).