[ExI] bees again

[John Clark]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> I haven't followed it but there should be plenty of evidence by now to
> answer whether or not DDT really does harm birds.


DDT does kill birds and that's bad, but DDT could also save the lives of
880,000 people a year and that's good. Choices need to be made.


>  A charge made in Carson's Silent Spring was that bugs evolve around DDT.

I
think it was Michael Crichton
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who said that Silent Spring
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has killed more people than Mein Kampf.
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That charge
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sounds
grossly
unfair
,
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but when you
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actually work the numbers....

​ ​John K Clark
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