Comment Re:Oh yeah, throw caution to the wind (Score 1) 514
A prime example of scientific knowledge vs the public's at large.
DDTs was/is one of the safest and most effective pesticides to date. While almost no real research into DDT has found any real adverse affects we do know that the ban of DDT, especially in African countries, has greatly affected infection/death rates.
Take Sri Lanka malaria rates:
pre-ban : 2.8 million+ / year
with DDT : 17
post ban : 2.5million +
In DDTs case, environmentalist pushed hard to demonize a chemical that almost all research pointed to as safe and even studies that found it to be possibly harmful in certain conditions to be the least harmful of all the alternatives.