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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 179
dangerous but because it saved lives; it was banned as a method of population control.
In 1948 the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine was awarded to Paul Muller for his
lifesaving work with DDT.
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“The U.S. Public Health Service had proclaimed that DDT was the
most important substance ever developed.” They stated, the “total value to mankind is
inestimable.” This is because DDT was used and effective in killing pests responsible for
“typhus, malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, plague and encephalitis.”
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The CDC credits
DDT along with draining and filling wetlands with the eradication of malaria in the US. In the
late 1970s the National Academy of Sciences stated: “To only a few chemicals does man owe as
great a debt as to DDT.... In a little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million
human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been inevitable.”
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Despite what you and I have heard about the safety of DDT, it “was the safest pesticide
ever known to mankind.” An Investigation Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) held six months of meetings on DDT in 1972 and concluded that DDT was completely
safe.
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Judge Edmund Sweeney concluded, “DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man.... DDT is
not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man... the use of DDT under the regulations involved
here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other
wildlife.”
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These hearings took into account all the fabricated stories alleging that DDT causes the
softening and/or thinning of eggshells in birds of prey, which was not true and has never been
proven.
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Statistics from the Audubon Society show that bird populations were actually
increasing including those of hawks and falcons during the time DDT was in use. The exception
was in the eagle population. Eagles were in decline and there was a problem with thinning
eggshells among eagles but it had absolutely no association with the use of DDT. The eggshell
thinning problem among eagles actually predated the use of DDT.
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According to Todd Seavey of the American Council of Science and Health: “No DDT-
related human fatalities or chronic illnesses have ever been recorded, even among the DDT-
soaked workers in anti-malarial programs or among prisoners who were fed DDT as volunteer
test subjects — let alone among the 600 million to 1 billion who lived in repeatedly-sprayed
dwellings at the height of the substance's use.”
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In an interview with Joseph Farah, Dr. Joseph
Jacobs, one of the inventors of DDT, recounted an incident were he fell into a vat of DDT and
emerged unaffected and has further stated that he has never had any effects from the incident.
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Despite the above, I readily admit that DDT is a pesticide and has risks. Any chemical
has the potential to kill or cause harm when used improperly including standard household
cleaners. In 1989 alone, 568 people died from accidental poisonings in the US (this number
excludes those who died form accidental poisoning from drugs, medications, gases or vapors).
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The only reported case of a death concerning DDT was due to the kerosene it was mixed with.
This “case of fatal poisoning was seen in a child who ingested one ounce of a 5% DDT:kerosene
solution”, that’s 5% DDT and 95% kerosene. The DDT did not cause this death. It was actually
the kerosene, which caused the death.
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So why was DDT banned? DDT was banned by EPA administrator William
Ruckelshaus. The banning was not the result of EPA hearings because they had determined it
was safe. Aids of Ruckelshaus' have reported that he didn't even “attend a single hour of the
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