tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post909554275125358406..comments2024-03-25T07:29:08.216-04:00Comments on 2 Political Junkies: Oy! AGAIN With The Bedbugs and DDT!Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-80603679428118415982010-10-09T15:40:27.232-04:002010-10-09T15:40:27.232-04:00Ed Darrell commented on DDT causing cancer. How ab...Ed Darrell commented on DDT causing cancer. How about an alternative take on this? The following is an extract from Donald R. Roberts' paper ( Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) published here http://www.researchinformation.co.uk/pest/prlinks/S2-2101.pdf:<br /><br />"Mary Wolff and co-authors (1993) published a paper, that was widely covered in the popular press, in which they claimed a statistically significant association of DDE (a major DDT metabolite) with breast cancer. Years later, with completion of many other studies, researchers concluded DDE was not a cause of breast cancer. Yet, for many years, anti-DDT activists heralded the 1993 paper as ultimate proof of DDT harm and used it to generate funds and recruit new members to campaigns for DDT elimination (World Wildlife Fund, 1998).<br />In the history of efforts to preserve use of DDT for public health programs, this chain of events has been repeated over and over, with claims of causation eventually being disproven, but not before they were used to generate funds and recruit new members to anti-insecticide campaigns".OneLightHousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17096247853234839130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-72116481904892893752010-09-26T19:26:47.847-04:002010-09-26T19:26:47.847-04:00Although DDT killed only 25% of bed bugs, I think ...Although DDT killed only 25% of bed bugs, I think it would be a good idea to use it! Bedbugs cause so many problems: phobias, anxiety, fears and psychological problems in addition to biting and sometimes cause serious skin problems. America should be <a href="http://killthebugs.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> free of bedbugs! </a>Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932274515167508487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-80256297690648017552010-09-22T01:07:21.316-04:002010-09-22T01:07:21.316-04:00Ed Darrell has posted other places about DDT and h...Ed Darrell has posted other places about DDT and he simply LOVES to nay-say... His ego rests on being "right"... How about a NEW inquiry into the effects of DDT on bedbugs? I suspect there would be success. Would you rather argue or test it? And where is this touted research that shows these hormonal changes and cancer threats from DDT?... That's a bunch of hogwash. Why don't you stay off these blogs with your lies? There are NOT any 1200 studies that prove egg shell thinning. YOU are a FRAUD!Trudy Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17749670356771482806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-91304557487851602182010-09-20T22:05:47.515-04:002010-09-20T22:05:47.515-04:00DDT doesn't work on most bedbugs. Research sho...DDT doesn't work on most bedbugs. Research shows most populations are astoundingly immune to the stuff; those that are still affected generally take about 30 hours of exposure before it gets to them.<br /><br />DDT is not strongly acutely toxic to humans, but it is still acutely toxic. More critically, it mimics estrogen, and it shrinks the testes of men, and gives them swollen mammaries, and it causes premature menses in little girls. Recent research indicates it gives breast and reproductive organ cancers to the children of women who are exposed to it. <br /><br />According to <i>Discover Magazine</i>, since Rachel Carson's death more than 1,200 different studies have confirmed that DDT kills bird chicks and thins the eggshells of wild birds. Myth? 1,200 studies?Ed Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056539160596825210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-77833366277753667952010-09-20T20:05:08.300-04:002010-09-20T20:05:08.300-04:00DDT does work on bedbugs! Why don't you try i...DDT does work on bedbugs! Why don't you try it? It is far, far less toxic than the stuff exterminators are spraying in your home today! In the seventies, it was reported on the national news that hundreds of farm workers had DIED due to using the NEW substitutes for DDT. It further said and I quote, "they died because they had been used to handling DDT, a less toxic chemical."<br />DDT is not "toxic" to humans AT ALL. Nor birds, nor does it "thin" egg shells. This is all myth. There has been NOT ONE documented death due to DDT use, unless it is a bedbug, a mosquito, a flea, a tick, or a gnat.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18199790439584040465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-75779991532900064872010-09-20T09:19:31.792-04:002010-09-20T09:19:31.792-04:00Two puzzling things here.
First, what does the U...Two puzzling things here. <br /><br />First, what does the US ban have to do with the rest of the world? I mean, ok, if we are buying DDT for poorer nations, but I thought Republicans were opposed to foreign aid. <br /><br />Second, we are funding DDT use now. Maybe we weren't under Bush and the Republican Congress, but we are now.EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.com