Why aren't negative labels applied to Rachel Carson (Silent Spring)?

People are always comparing Conservative leaders to Nazis, why doesn鈥檛 anyone every compare Rachel Carson to the Nazis? It turns out that 1 millions deaths per year could be prevented if DDT were still in use. Now I鈥檓 not saying bring back DDT, but since it was banned in 1972, something like 34 million excess deaths, mostly African women and children, have occurred due to malaria. It also turns out that malaria makes one more susceptible to HIV infection so there may be excess AIDS cases in Africa for lack of DDT. Where is the outrage? And why aren鈥檛 the same outrageous labels applied to Liberals as to Conservatives? It looks like this women is at indirectly responsible for a number of deaths somewhere between Hitler and Stalin (and still climbing).

Source: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=378...

She & the EPA (the EPA's first act, banning DDT) slaughtered millions. I regard them as genocidal maniacs that ought to be condemned as harshly as possible.

(BTW, capmag is a daily hit for me)

Because liberals are only judged on their intentions, not their results.

Rachel Carson was right.

Chainsaw is correct - too bad nobody realizes this.

Okay, where to begin?

1. Mosquitos and other pests pretty quickly become immune to pesticides. This is because there are some of the critters out there that, for one genetic quirck or the other, aren't affected or have a natural resistance to said pesticides. And, basic natural selection here, if you kill off all the "weak" members of the species, the only ones left to reproduce are the "strong" ones. So, a population will gradually develop a resistance. They've had a problem with this in India; they'll have a problem with it worldwide.

http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/dec102003/1...
http://timlambert.org/2005/10/chapin/

2. DDT use has been linked to cancer in humans, and certainly wreaks havoc with many species.
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/02...


3. "Malaria makes one more susceptible to HIV infection." Other way around. HIV infection makes one more vulnerable to malaria, as the last stages of HIV, AIDS, destroys the immune system and leaves one vulnerable to a whole host of opportunistic infections. Malaria may make it easier for an HIV-infected mother to spread the infection to her child during pregnancy.

http://www.who.int/malaria/malaria_HIV/m...

There are other pesticides that work better than DDT. Permethrin, for example, kills mosquitoes and also repels them. DDT does not have a repellent effect.