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...celebrity also gave her the opportunity to speak out on concerns she felt strongly about. As early as 1945, Carson and her close colleague Clarence Cottam had become alarmed by government abuse of new chemical pesticides such as DDT, in particular the "predator" and "pest" control programs, which were broadcasting poisons with little regard for the welfare of other creatures. That same year, she offered an article to Reader's Digest on insecticide experiments going on at Patuxent, Md., not far from her home in Silver Spring, to determine the effects of DDT on all life in affected areas. Apparently...
...Corp. is developing to remove the ability of a plant's seeds to reproduce [ENVIRONMENT, Feb. 1]. Your statement that no "serious scientist" thinks dire forecasts of accidental widespread sterilization of natural flora will come to pass brings to mind many other past assertions. Weren't we told that DDT was a safe pesticide and that pouring tons of waste into our waters was a safe form of disposal? The only thing a "serious" scientist should be thinking today is that we really know very little about the long-term effects of our technology. STEVE GORDON Holland Landing...
...area where First Amendment rights are bumping up against commercial interests," says Emory University law professor David Bederman, who tried unsuccessfully to challenge Georgia's food-disparagement law. If such laws had existed in the 1960s, environmentalists say, people would have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going back to Upton Sinclair and The Jungle, a free and open discourse about food safety has been critical," says Lawrie Mott, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...study, led by Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health David J. Hunter, reports findings which do not correlate with earlier beliefs that breast cancer was directly related to blood DDE, the metabolized from of DDT and PCB levels...
...DDT and PCB, chemicals that were commonly used as pesticides, had been banned in the United States by the late 70s. The chemicals posed a risk because they are fat soluble and accumulate in the body over time without being metabolized...