-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- .............................................................. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Subject: DDT, malaria, India, and Julian Simon http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/BMGT/.Faculty/JSimon/Ultimate_Resource/TCHA R18.txt 1945: DDT, sensationalized by Rachel Carson in 1962. Said to cause hepatitis. Discontinued in U.S. in 1972. Known then to be safe to humans (caused death only if eaten like pancakes). Some damage to wildlife under special conditions. With the aid of DDT, "India had brought the number of malaria cases down from the estimated 75 million in 1951 to about 50,000 in 1961. Sri Lanka...reduced malaria from about three million cases after World War II to just 29 in 1964". Then as the use of DDT went down, "Endemic malaria returned to India like the turnaround of a tide". By 1977 "the number of cases reached at least 30 million and perhaps 50 million". In 1971, amidst the fight that led to the banning of DDT in 1972, the president of the National Academy of Science - distinguished biologist Philip Handler - said "DDT is the greatest chemical that has ever been discovered". Commission after commission, top expert after top Nobel prize-winning expert, has given DDT a clean bill of health. Like most people, I suppose, I think of DDT as a dangerous poison. The passage above asserts that it's safe for humans and suggests that the post-Sixties resurgence of malaria has something to do with the banning of DDT in the USA. A little research shows that it had everything to do with the growth in pesticide resistance, and nothing to do with pesticide politics. Reasons for the resurgence of malaria: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_120000/120644.stm Pesticide resistance, growth of mosquito breeding grounds, expansion of human settlement into malaria-friendly areas, budget restraints. No reference to environmentalist scaremongering as a factor. DDT's use in India: http://www.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp/students/class02/ehyotani/India_Pesticide.html states that pesticide production in India peaked in the 1980s, and DDT was banned there only in 1997, long after the resurgence quoted above. DDT's effects on human health: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_262000/262698.stm 'Some of the recent scientific findings summarised in the report provide evidence that DDT can damage the developing brain, causing hypersensitivity, behavioural abnormalities and reduced nerve function. 'It has also been shown to suppress the immune system, which causes slower response to infections.' From _A growing problem: pesticides and the Third World poor_ by David Bull (OXFAM, 1982), p30: 'In India malaria incidence was down to just 49,000 cases in 1961 (from 75 million or so in the early '50s) but was back to over a million by 1971 and nearly 6.5 million by 1976... 'In the final years of the 1970s there has been some recovery... In India, for example, malaria incidence fell from its 1976 peak to 4.4 million in 1977, 2.84 million in 1978 and 2.7 million in 1979...' After listing various inadequacies of health infrastructure which contributed to the resurgence, the author states: 'The most significant cause of the resurgence of malaria, however, is the resistance built up by the mosquitoes to the insecticides which have been relied upon for malaria vector control.' The number of pesticide-resistant species of insects and mites known (p31): 1967: 119. 1975: 139. 1980: 171. And consider the first edition of _The Ultimate Resource_ itself (Princeton University Press, 1981). The version on the web, I assume, is that of the 1998 revised edition. There is one reference to DDT in the index of the 1981 edition, and this is what it leads to: 'Because of DDT and other synthetic pesticides, medical technologists thought for a time that population density was no longer necessary to prevent malaria. Malaria was considered beaten. But throughout the world the disease has bounced back... Due to the evolution of pesticide resistant strains of carrier insects and the concomitant daage to the insects' natural predators, pesticides soon lost their effectiveness... 'Once again the only sure weapon against malaria may turn out to be increased population density.' (p252-253, Chapter 18, 'Population Density Does Not Damage Health, or Psychological and Social Well-Being') [Apparently population growth helps the fight against malaria because (i) swamps and other mosquito incubators get paved over, (ii) there are more people to run the health infrastructure.] Eliezer wrote Is Rachel Carson still alive? 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