tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24673001.post4227049664512376011..comments2023-04-11T05:03:26.933-07:00Comments on Minding Your Spiritual Business: The Law of Unintended ConsequencesWunder Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02090280533053838971noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24673001.post-44197615814766836272008-09-12T02:57:00.000-07:002008-09-12T02:57:00.000-07:00"Yet it has been proven that DDT does NOT cause ca...<I>"Yet it has been proven that DDT does NOT cause cancer."</I><BR/><BR/>Actually DDT is listed as a probable human carcinogen by every cancer fighting agency on the planet (check out the American Cancer Society, for example -- they do not fool around). While DDT appears to be a rather weak human carcinogen in adult humans, recent research establishes a strong link to cancers in the children of people exposed, especially women. DDT is now known to be an endocrine disruptor, and many other disruptors are carcinogens. There is very little work on DDT in that regard. <BR/><BR/>But DDT has never been proven not to be a carcinogen.<BR/><BR/><I>"It has been proven that DDT kills only insects and NOT birds or other wildlife since “Silent Spring” came out."</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, as Discover Magazine noted in November 2007, there are more than 1,000 studies since Rachel Carson's book that verify the connections between DDT and the near-extinction of several species of birds, including the bald eagle, brown pelican, pergrine falcon and osprey. DDT is particularly deadly to bats, which we count on here in the American Southwest to help control disease-carrying mosquitoes. <BR/><BR/>Come on over to Millard Fillmore's Bathtub; you'll find a dozen or so posts on DDT and its effects.Ed Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056539160596825210noreply@blogger.com