DDT chronicles at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub - 200+ reasons to ban DDT

200+ things about DDT that Steven Milloy and the “Competitive Enterprise” Institute want to hide from you.

200+ essays and articles at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub relating to DDT, in reverse chronological order (note this list is not complete; for more articles, use the “search” feature and look for DDT and/or malaria in posts on this blog):

1. Perpetuating Crichton’s version of the DDT hoax, April 16, 2013
2. Eagles! We reduced DDT, and the eagles recovered, January 28, 2013
3. World Malaria Report 2012: Malaria still declining, but more resources needed fast, January 4, 2013
4. Longevity of DDT, in pictures, December 16, 2012
5. Still no ban on DDT:  Treaty monitors allow DDT use to continue, December 16, 2012
6. Use of Pesticides:  Report of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, May 15, 1963, December 12, 2012; This is the full text of the long-unavailable report of some of the nation’s top biologists, entomologists, and chemists, to President Kennedy.  In late 1962, Kennedy asked the President’s Science Advisory Committee to check out
   

   Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Official photo as FWS employee. c. 1940. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

   Carson’s book for accuracy.  In their report, the scientists vindicated Carson’s citations of science; though they off-handedly criticized her non-scientific writing style, they also recommended much quicker action against DDT than Carson had dared to suggest.  This report established that Carson was accurate, and that the science she cited was solid.  Both points are still valid today.

7. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring at 50:  A catalog of tributes, December 11, 2012
8. Rachel Carson biography, On a Farther Shore, one of the best books of 2012, December 4, 2012
9. Doubt, about the science of tobacco consumption, DDT, and global warming, October 6, 2012
   

   Photo taken at Rachel Carson’s 100th Birthday celebration at Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale, PA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

10. Laissez Faire Today, lazy and unfair as yesterday, on issues of DDT and malaria, September 25, 2012
11. Vote in Rachel Carson Sense of Water Contest winning photographs, July 18, 2012
12. Meanwhile, back in reality, Superfund cleanup of Torrance DDT site continues, July 11, 2012
13. Silent Spring’s 50th anniversary:  Birds sing, air is cleaner, water is cleaner, June 16, 2012
14. Rachel Carson’s Birthday, May 28, 2012
15. Annals of DDT:  Pesticide starred in 1944 Army film, April 5, 2012
16. Annals of DDT:  Canada’s Earth Tones on the harms of DDT, March 25, 2012
17. Rachel Carson in history:  Great post at Pop History Dig, February 22, 2012
18. Say What?  India only now figures out that DDT kills birds? January 17, 2012
19. DDT News:  Ethio Sun reports “Ethiopia and Botswana in banned DDT deal, January 12, 2012
20. More misunderstanding of the case against DDT, December 21, 2011
21. Annals of DDT:  No DDT produces benefits in Thunder Bay, Ontario, December 4, 2011
22. Art historians do better than conservatives on the history of DDT, November 21, 2011
23. Find the nerd loop – science education and communication for a troubled and troubling world, October 14, 2011
24. Burt Folsom’s blog distorts history of DDT, October 13, 2011
25. Regulation works, September 21, 2011
26. Sideshow of DDT and malaria, August 23, 2011
27. Poisoning the children: Study shows mothers give DDT to their children from breastmilk, July 29, 2011
28. Sowell wrong about DDT and Rachel Carson, May 16, 2011
29. Heritage Foundation urges that Africa be poisoned, May 7, 2011
30. Monday is World Malaria Day, watch out for the pro-DDT hoaxes, April 23, 2011
31. Anecdotal evidence: Malaria spreads to Tanzania highlands, warming climate blamed, April 16, 2011
32. WHO, DDT and the Persistent Organic Pesticides Treaty:  Historic view from the inside, March 19, 2011
33. Green Hell?  Milloy slanders Ruckelshaus as “mass murderer, March 10, 2011
34. Hoaxing Congress:  Claiming DDT as pixie dust, March 9, 2011
35. “Massive populations of misquotes” said to kill millions, March 5, 2011
36. Jay Ambrose:  Still wrong about DDT and malaria, February 27, 2011
37. A fungus to fight malaria?, February 24, 2011
38. Debunking Junk Science’s hoax “100 Things You Should Know About DDT”: #14, William Ruckelshaus’s bias, February 17, 2011
39. USAID policy statement on DDT and malaria control, February 16, 2011
40. No, DDT is not the easy answer to malaria, February 13, 2011
41. George Clooney’s malaria? DDT didn’t cure it, January 25, 2011
42. Annals of Hoaxes: American Enterprise Institute sends out hoax backgrounder on DDT and trade barriers, January 25, 2011
43. Roger Bate’s simple lie about DDT, January 22, 2011
44. Annals of DDT: 1946 warning of the dangers of DDT, January 6, 2011
45. Lens incompetence: Watts Up looks through the wrong end of the telescope, December 27, 2010
46. EPA at 40: Director Jackson claims too much?, December 18, 2010
47. President’s Malaria Initiative: Plans for FY 2011, December 14, 2010
48. Mandy Moore Talks Mosquito Nets – ABC News, December 13, 2010
49. Ducking the quacks on DDT, December 9, 2010
50. Quote of the moment: 1971, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia orders a review of the safety of DDT
51. Delingpole: Wrong and bitter on DDT, November 21, 2010
52. Red State: You’ll hear the banjoes, November 8, 2010
53. DDT: Zombie ideas of the right-winged and ill-informed, November 9, 2010
54. DDT or PCB?, November 1, 2010
55. Lancet special issue on malaria:  No call for more DDT, October 30, 2010
56. DDT hoaxsters predictably spinning India/malaria deaths story — wrongly, October 28, 2010
57. Quote of the moment:  Lewis Carroll on Republican politics, climate skeptics, DDT advocates, and creationism, October 26, 2010
58. Called this one right:  DDT advocates think poison is always the answer, October 25, 2010
59. Malaria deaths in India under-reported? Bad news for pro-DDT partisans, October 22, 2010
60. Annals of DDT:  Interior Department compliments Rachel Carson’s research in Silent Spring, October 17, 2010
61. How evolution makes bedbugs resistant to DDT, October 12, 2010
62. Annals of DDT: Remembering Rachel Carson, October 8, 2010
63. “3 billion and counting” — the errors one makes when using Howard Stern as a science advisor, October 7, 2010
64. Tupper takes up the quill, September 23, 2010
65. Truth in a fair fight: Eli Rabett explains Gates Foundation’s good work against malaria, September 21, 2010
66. Still evil and wrong: McIlhinney still leads a cover up of malaria facts, September 20, 2010
67. DDT can’t fight bedbugs, September 19, 2010
68. Anthony Watts targets Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub, ends up getting scrubbed, September 14, 2010
69. Annals of DDT:  880,000 died from malaria in 2008, August 26, 2010
70. Velsicol Chemical vs. Rachel Carson — the lawsuit that didn’t happen, August 23, 2010
71. DDT and birth defects: South African television asks questions, July 23, 2010
72. University of Arizona’s “malaria-proof” mosquito, July 15, 2010
73. Tea Party symbols: Forgetting history and science, July 13, 2010
74. Another study on human health and DDT: ADHD linked to DDT and other pesticides, July 7, 2010
75. Africa Fighting Malaria claims to be fighting malaria, July 6, 2010
76. Annals of DDT: Malawi ponders DDT use against malaria, June 21, 2010
77. French researchers find link between DDT exposure and Parkinson’s Disease, June 16, 2010
78. Fighting malaria:  Bednets crucial, June 12, 2010
79. Does Africa Fighting Malaria actually fight malaria? June 11, 2010
80. A cocktail with gin and DDT?  Slim chance, June 10, 2010
81. Lorrie Otto, environmental warrior, June 9, 2010
82. Washington Times felled by DDT poisoning, June 9, 2010
83. False claims on DDT, June 6, 2010
84. DDT-style problems remain, June 2, 2010
85. DDT:  One of the 50 worst inventions, May 30, 2010
86. Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds, poisoned by DDT, May 24, 2010
87. Good news: Warming probably won’t expand malaria much, May 19, 2010
88. Wall Street Journal’s DDT-fueled war on science, May 12, 2010
89. Quote of the moment:  Jonathan Weiner’s  Pulitzer-winning explanation of mosquitoes’ developing immunity to DDT, April 30, 2010
90. Decline and fall of the Wall Street Journal — DDT poisoning to blame? April 27, 2010
91. Strike a blow against malaria, for World Malaria Day, April 25, 2010
92. World Malaria Day, 2010 – April 25, April 18, 2010
93. Crank climate science conference, April 10, 2010
94. Monckton among the Mormons, March 25, 2010
95. Voice of America on Rachel Carson, March 14, 2010
96. For sage grouse, not a nickel’s difference between Bush and Obama, March 9, 2010
97. Libertarians for junk science, February 21, 2010
98. Joanne Nova can’t stand the heat, February 19, 2010
99. Monckton lies over the ocean, January 28, 2010
100. DDT propaganda machine, January 23, 2010
101. Tonight in Iowa City!  DDT and myth lecture, January 19, 2010
102. Monckton’s profiteering:  Climate denialists rake in the money, January 19, 2010
103. Malaria, DDT, and internet myth lecture at University of Iowa, January 19, January 15, 2010
104. Chris Rock:  Funny, but wrong in his slam of medical science, January 1, 2010
105. Climate change and DDT:  Monckton’s inconvenient and inaccurate history, December 31, 2009
106. Chet Raymo on devils and angels of our own creation, December 26, 2009
107. The curse of “Not Evil, Just Wrong” — still evil and wrong, December 10, 2009
108. Mau-mauing the gullibles, Sirkin on DDT (again), November 26, 2009
109. Stealth malaria promotion in favoring DDT over brown pelicans, November 14, 2009
110. Quote of the moment:  DDT causing bedbug problems, Malcolm Gladwell, October 24, 2009 
111. “Not Evil, Just Wrong” opens to thunderous silence, October 24, 2009
112. Monckton lies again (and again, and again, and again, and again . . .)! The continuing saga of a practicer of fictional science
     October 18, 2009
113. Monckton will lie about anything, October 10, 2009
114. Nobody called for DDT to fight West Nile? September 28, 2009
115. New junk science movie:  “Not Evil, Just Wrong, August 16, 2009
116. Straight talk:  Berenbaum on DDT and malaria, August 12, 2009
117. Bated breath, bated brains, bated sense and DDT, July 11, 2009
118. Watts Up censors dissents on claims of climate report censorship, June 27, 2009
119. For science, Bing loses badly to Google, not safe for school kids?  June 24, 2009
120. Wool ripped from this bloggers eyes, June 23, 2009
121. Encore post:  Rebutting junk Science, “100 Things to Know About DDT” point #6, June 22, 2009
122. $36 million to clean up DDT mess, June 12, 2009
123. Crankery under the microscope:  Denialism as pathology, June 10, 2009
124. Bathtub reading on a warm June Sunday, June 7, 2009
125. Should the best high school students read Rachel Carson? May 31, 2009
126. Bednets save lives, fighting malaria without DDT, May 25, 2009 
127. Heartland on bedbugs: DDT stupidity, all the way to 11, May 25, 2009
128. Eradicate malaria — here’s how, May 24, 2009
129. Cartoons: Bill Mauldin on DDT, May 16, 2009
     
130. History: May 15, 1963, President’s council vindicates Rachel Carson, warns of pesticide dangers, (May 15, 2009)
131. Alma conference on DDT and health calls for DDT phase-out, May 5, 2009
132. Applying evolution theory to defeat malaria, May 3, 2009
133. World Malaria Day brings out the DDT-poisoned claims — beware the ill-informed critics, April 26, 2009
134. Polluted waters near your home, six-legged frogs, and you, April 19, 2009
135. Rachel Carson’s critics:  No shame, no morals, no brains, April 18, 2009
136. DDT nutcases, April 11, 2009
137. Population bombs, April 10, 2009
138. Little anti-green devils, April 2, 2009
139. Eating DDT: Where did it get them? March 8, 2009
     
140. National History Day film on DDT, March 8, 2009
     
141. One more round for award-winning DDT poster – but where? February 15, 2009
     
142. DDT ain’t pixie dust; we can’t poison Africa to health, February 7, 2009
     
143. Suicide attempt with DDT, January 31, 2009
     
144. I get e-mail from DDT cranks . . ., January 3, 2009
     
145. DDT falsehoods, taken as an article of faith, December 31, 2008
     
146. Beating malaria without DDT, November 3, 2008
     
147. Malaria/DDT Carnival addendum, October 11, 2008
     
148. Carnival of Fighting Malaria (and DDT), October 8, 2008
     
149. DDT results disappointing in Uganda, October 3, 2008
     
150. John Stossel: Wrong again, on DDT, September 17, 2008
     
151. An account of bioaccumulation of pesticides — dangers of DDT explained, August 14, 2008
     
152. African nations back off of limited DDT use, August 7, 2008
     
153. DDT poisoning spreads: Critics Kling to their favorite untruths, August 4, 2008
     
154. Wordless Wednesday: DDT, Santa Monica, 1940s, July 16, 2008
     
155. News from Uganda? DDT, cotton, misreporting, July 13, 2008
     
156. Instapundit screws up again (Uganda, cotton, DDT), July 5, 2008
     
157. USAID allows DDT use in Africa, June 25, 2008
     
158. Mosquitoes eat DDT, and here’s how, June 18, 2008
     
159. Alma conference statement pending:  ‘Don’t ease DDT restrictions,’ June 11, 2008
160. Meanwhile, back at the DDT manufacturing plant . . ., June 9, 2008
     
161. DDT opposition in Uganda: Business, not environmentalists, June 3, 2008
     
162. DDT for bedbugs: Waste of mental space, May 17, 2008
     
163. DDT blast from the past: 1951, May 16, 2008
     
164. Business, no environmentalists, oppose DDT in Africa, May 16, 2008
     
165. DDT linked to testicular cancers in next generation, May 2, 2008
     
166. How DDT could work in aggressive breast cancers, April 18, 2008
     
167. Bedbugs, DDT, April 13, 2008
     
168. Cocoa buyers stand against DDT use in Uganda, April 1, 2008
     
169. DDT and other poisons in the Great Lakes, March 30, 2008
170. Don’t look now: Businesses ask Uganda to block DDT spraying, March 27, 2008
     
171. War on science:  CDC publishes suppressed study, March 15, 2008
172. A Buddhist perspective on DDT, March 13, 2008
     
173. DDT conference: Safe or not? Who will report? March 12, 2008
     
174. DDT and health effects on children, February 25, 2008
     
175. Gresham’s Law: DDT disinformation crowds out facts, February 18, 2008
176. Epidemiologists sign on to Alma DDT conference, February 16, 2008
177. March 14, 2008 conference on ddt and health, February 1, 2008
178. Uganda to start DDT use; funding delayed program start, January 19, 2008
179. Uganda health ministry slows use of DDT against malaria, December 26, 2007
180. Eagle recovery still on, since DDT halt, December 26, 2007
181. ‘Twas DDT nearly killed the beast, December 20, 2007
182. More DDT poisoning, December 20, 2007
183. DDT no silver bullet; environmentalists, medical care not monsters, December 13, 2007
     
184. How to tell if someone is wrong about DDT and Rachel Carson, December 12, 2007
     
185. Benefits offset by infant deaths? DDT no panacea, December 10, 2007
     
186. Peregrine falcons — ’100 things about DDT #77′, December 8, 2007
     
187. DDT works! (When used carefully, in IVM, and sparingly), November 20, 2007
     
188. Another carnival of DDT, November 18, 2007
189. Praying to DDT for a miracle that DDT cannot work, November 11, 2007
190. 100 things about DDT:  Dissecting #10, November 8, 2007
191. Michael Crichton hysterical for DDT, October 28, 2007
     
192. Reason makes progress in malaria/DDT discussions, October 28, 2007
     
193. Fighting malaria in Cameroon, October 23, 2007
194. West Nile virus: No call for DDT, October 8, 2007
195. Carnival of DDT, October 3, 2007
196. Endocrine disruptors, such as DDT, September 27, 2007
197. Politics and DDT, September 23, 2007
198. Breastfeeding still recommended, despite DDT contamination, September 23, 2007
199. West Nile 2007:  DDT not needed, September 21, 2007
200. DDT damages plants, too? September 20, 2007
201. DDT Snake Oil Salesman of the Month of August 2007, [Steven Milloy], September 17, 2007
202. River blindness “curse” lifted, September 17, 2007
203. Using snake oil to lubricate jaws, September 15, 2007
204. DDT as snake oil, September 15, 2007
205. Rachel Carson and DDT “ban” save millions of lives, August 27, 2007
206. Instapundit supports pollution, but with a smile, August 23, 2007
207. How malaria is really treated, August 22, 2007
208. How to fight malaria, Kenya’s example, August 17, 2007
209. DDT poisoning at the Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2007
210. DDT disruption of hormone activities, August 12, 2007
211. [Annals of DDT] Original documents:  Long history of DDT trouble, from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,  August 12, 2007
212. Fisking “Junk Science’s” campaign for DDT:  Point #6, August 9, 2007
213. Accuracy, a good bias (DDT, again), August 4, 2007 [adventures of Jay Ambrose]
214. Uganda expands controlled DDT use, July 30, 2007
215. DDT out, eagles back, in Michigan Upper Peninsula, July 30, 2007
216. Spreading miasma on malaria, July 23, 2007
217. Inexplicable insanity about DDT and Rachel Carson, July 3, 2007
218. Setting the record straight on Rachel Carson, malaria, and DDT, June 19, 2007
219. GOP War on Science victim:  Rachel Carson, May 15, 2007

A “Gordo” Sunday cartoon marking the passing of Rachel Carson in 1964; by cartoonist Gus Arriola, copyright by Arriola (Fair Use) (Image via Wikipedia)

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