<div dir="ltr">The oft-repeated but unsubstantiated story linking malaria deaths to the reduced use of DDT is a canard:<div><br></div><div><br><div><div><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/rachel_carsons_critics_keep_on_but_she_told_truth_about_ddt/2908/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/rachel_carsons_critics_keep_on_but_she_told_truth_about_ddt/2908/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Mull</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:39 PM, bht1113--- via Pollinator <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net" target="_blank">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And I think Rachel Carson would be appalled at the human lives lost (estimated by some at 30M) in Africa over the past 50 years as the result of the lack of the minimal amounts of DDT needed to prevent malaria.<div><div>Barry<br><br><div>Sent from AOL Mobile Mail</div>
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On Friday, April 1, 2016, Richard Johnstone <<a dir="ltr" href="mailto:ivmpartners@gmail.com" target="_blank">ivmpartners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">That is correct. She actually advocated selective treatment, which is what we now term integrated vegetation management or IVM.<div>Rick</div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:51 PM, bht1113--- via Pollinator <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net" target="_blank">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And yet, even Rachel Carson did not advocate a total ban on the use of pesticides, as I recall.<br>
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On Friday, April 1, 2016, Barbara Passero <<a href="mailto:bpassero@meadowmaking.org" target="_blank">bpassero@meadowmaking.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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