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Senate Foreign Relations Committee studies malaria and pesticides
Two of the world’s foremost experts on malaria and other infectious diseases testified on October 6, 2004, before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Kansas Senator Sam Brownback presiding), on: “Neglected diseases in East Asia: Are public health programs working?” Robert Desowitz, Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology at the University of […]
Eco Myths Revealed
Eco-Imperialism.com October 2004 Much of the anti-DDT hysteria generated by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring, and by assorted eco-activists, involved erroneous and even fraudulent scientific studies. In one, a researcher reported that mice fed DDT developed cancer – but withheld the fact that mice which were not fed DDT actually developed more cancers than did those fed DDT. The oft-cited […]
Bring back DDT and save lives!
Emptying birdbaths will not get rid of a zillion hungry mosquitoes. We need pesticides! by Henry I. Miller, MD Scripps Howard News Service September 17, 2004 The five-year-old U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus is a significant threat to public health and shows no signs of abating, but the government is holding back on a […]
Preserving techno progress and human life
Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko have written a brilliant account of how self-interest, bad science, and excessive government regulation have profoundly compromised the potential of the new biotechnology. This book is a call to action to resist a pernicious political process that is currently denying enormous potential benefits to consumers throughout the world. All […]
Preventing malaria is a fundamental human rights issue
We must find better ways to end malaria in developing countries, says CORE by Congress of Racial Equality Statement for US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa September 14, 2004 Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee and guests, we thank you for holding this important hearing on finding better ways to end the intolerable scourge of […]
Wrongful ban on DDT costs lives
The fact that DDT saves lives might account for part of the hostility toward it. by Walter Williams Jewish World Review July 2004 Ever since Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “Silent Spring,” environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the […]
Shareholder activists violate human rights, CORE charges at ExxonMobil annual meeting
CORE Press Release May 28, 2004 by Congress of Racial Equality Congress of Racial Equality May 2004 For Immediate Release Contact: Niger Innis May 28, 2004 212-598-4000 Shareholder activists violate human rights, CORE charges at ExxonMobil annual meeting “I am delighted that shareholder activists are making human rights and corporate social responsibility keynote topics at this meeting,” […]
Third World Sweatshops: Part II
by Thomas Sowell Townhall.com January 2004 Those who vent their moral indignation over low pay for Third World workers employed by multinational companies ignore the plain fact that these workers’ employers are usually supplying them with better opportunities than they had before, while those who are morally indignant on their behalf are providing them with nothing. Some […]
The costs of malaria
by The Washington Times The Washington Times April 2004 Published April 17, 2004 http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040416-085250-8026r.htm In a remarkable article in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, titled “What the World Needs Now is DDT,” Tina Rosenberg argues that Westerners’ irrational fears of DDT are allowing malaria to take a devastating toll on Africans. The costs of […]
Banned U.S. pesticide could save millions in Africa
DDT Saves Lives by Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Sun-Times April 2004 This is what writer Hilary Spurling says about the female bloodsucker, otherwise known as the flying needle of death: “She is elegantly constructed, miraculously adaptable and prodigiously efficient. She can deposit 30 or 40 malarial parasites in the human bloodstream at a single bite. Within […]