LAMBERT STILL WRONG ON DDT
According to computer scientist Tim Lambert, DDT did not play a huge role in reducing malaria in South Africa – to get around Lambert's link bouncing, copy and paste http://timlambert.org/2005/12/ddt-ban-myth-bingo/ . South Africa's Health Minister Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang has no doubts about the importance of the decision to reintroduce DDT:
"This change in insecticide was one of the main contributing factors to the decline in malaria cases in the past five years in South Africa."Lambert really should correct some of his obvious DDT errors.
"South Africa has reduced malaria morbidity and mortality by approximately 88 percent and 86 percent, respectively, compared to the year 2000," she said.
posted by Anonymous at 8:29 PM |
1 Comments:
PS
Readers should not forget that in this South African incident, the quite recent upsurge of malaria followed an in effect ban of DDT use in South Africa as a direct result of the influence of environmentalist pressure groups. DDT use was eventually re-instituted and then bought the epidemic under control.
Post a Comment
<< Home