DDT works a lot better. 30 million dead and counting based on poor or little science.

http://junkscience.com/ddt-and-malaria/

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/02/15/the-dangers-of-pesticides-and-the-epas-harrowing-plan-to-test-them-on-kids.htm

I gather that the article you referencerd and the opinon expressed is the junk science. The hearing that was cited dealt only with whether DDT is a cancer causing agent.

Pesticides deposit themselves in the fat cells of the human body and, depending on the pesticide will compromise various body systems.

Children, of course, are more vulnerable to any such chemicals than adults.

DDT has been used extensively in agriculture. As a result, it appears that the mosquitos have adapted and become resistant to DDT. In some areas, DDT was apparently banned and it may now be possbile to start all over again in those areas to use DDT as Indoor Residual Spraying.

Anyway, it is all not as simple as you make it out to be. You may love the junk science pages, but I think that the pages themselves are junk science.

Use you brains. For most of us, it is much more effective than relying on questionable reports gathered by those who do not even understand an objective and well studied approach to things. Even common sense works better than that.

On further reading it appears that DDT has never been banned for IRS use in malaria control. Some simply claim that bans are responsible for tens of millions of deaths in tropical countries where DDT had once been effective in controlling malaria without really knowing the methods of mosquito contril used in the various countries.

WHO suggests 12 different insecticides including DDT as well as pyrethroids permethrin and deltamethrin). The public health use of small amounts of DDT is permitted under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which prohibits the agricultural use of DDT.
The same as with the agricultural use, one problem with all forms of Indoor Residual Spraying is insecticide resistance via evolution of mosquitos.

As for mosquito nets, they help keep mosquitoes away from people and greatly reduce the infection and transmission of malaria. The nets are not a perfect barrier and THEY ARE OFTEN TREATED WITH AN INSECTICIDE designed to kill the mosquito before it has time to search for a way past the net. Insecticide-treated nets are estimated to be twice as effective as untreated nets and offer greater than 70% protection compared with no net. Although such treated nets are proven to be very effective against malaria, less than 2% of children in urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are protected by such treated nets.

Hey, the scientific research approach is kinda neat when you get used to it seamutt.

Of course your reputation as a contrarian will go out the window and you may not like that.

LOL

I was going to watch the video clip but as soon as I saw those stupid drums I turned it off.

Barrels of DDT were sent to South and Central America after it was banned, Don't worry though, it all came back in bananas.

When I was a kid, in the forties, DDT was a household word and a very important part of our Northern Alberta farm. None of us turned out to be mutants or zombies. The new concensus on DDT is that it is OK when used properly. Turns out saccharin is not the culprit Canada deemed it to be either.
In the name of safety we have a tendency to jump too soon,except when it is a true poison like fluoride.

Drums? What happened to the Bagpipes? I was told there would be bagpipes there.

Congratulations UNBC Students!! This is something to be really proud of! And I am proud to say that I live in this city with so many caring individuals!

Junk science should make one think about mass dogma science. Yes DDT has to be used properly but is not the bogey man as it is made out to be.

As for the WHO they have lost their credibility the last few years. Yes I believe in the scientific method but seems to have been replaced by big money.

No direct deaths attributed to DDT. Gordon Shrum even drank some. You remember Gordon Shrum, don't ya? Google him up. Apparently he was more successful than all of us here.

Hey Ben. Ever meet Gordon Shrum? Got a story? Please share it.