The art historians at least get the facts right — why can’t conservatives and erstwhile scientists like Steven Milloy get it right? This is from “The War Against Bugs,” by Steven Heller at imprint:
The War Against Bugs, by Print Magazine — a Neocide ad from European media.
With all due respect to entomologists, there is nothing aesthetically pleasing about bugs (insects by any other name). These little monsters certainly have ecological significance, but don’t tell me they are fun to have crawling around. Hence, chemical manufacturers have made it their business to find he most efficient means of ridding the pests while retaining the fine upstanding species. Too bad that anything designed to kill will doubtless have ill effects on he eco-system. In he 50s DDT was the magic bullet against such varieties as various potato beetles, coddling moth, corn earworm, cotton bollworm and tobacco budworms (eeeecccchhhh!). Then in 1972, the US Environmental Protection Agency curtailed all use of DDT on crops. The ban did not take hold in other countries until much later, and DDT was vociferously promoted through eerie calls to arms like this poster by Savignac.
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Nota bene Mr. Heller does not claim DDT use against malaria-causing mosquitoes was ever banned. He focuses instead on the promotion of DDT.
Truth in art.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 