Well-researched?
Christopher Pearson, in a well-researched piece in The Australian today, reveals how lying, elitist greens and bureaucrats have condemned millions of third worlders to death.
This piece by Christopher Pearson in today’s Oz, denouncing green opposition to DDT, encapsulates everything that’s wrong with Australia’s right-wing commentariat. Not only is almost everything in the article either false or grossly misleading, but it’s a fourth-hand recycling of points that have been flogged to death in the blogosphere.
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[S]houldn’t journalistic and magazine ethics be extended to include some kind of Google rule, prohibiting the publication of articles that can be replicated by less than an hour’s Googling, or at least the payment of more than an hour’s casual rates for such pieces.
Unlike Slattery, Quiggin backs up his claims with actual arguments.
how embarassing! this is equivalent to criticising those ‘elitist’ public health officials for promoting lexicons. And I have to ask my comrades on the right – why have they started using ‘elitist’ as a swearword?
sorry – meant to type ” ‘elitist’ public health officials for promoting vaccination’ “- my touch typing is crap
Get it right, would you?
College professor earning $50,000 a year = elitist.
CEO earning $50,000,000 a year = plain old regular guy.
Try reading
http://www.techcentralstation.be/021402A.html
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0303.gourevitch.html
You might also like to read
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Okay zoot, read it. The Malaria Foundation International has lots of stuff on DDT. Try http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.malaria.org+ddt&meta=
Slattery??? Research??? one is surely the anti-thesis of the other.
How Good Intentions Kill
Dec 8, 2000
BY BANNING THE USE OF DDT WOULD COST LIVES AND WEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD, SAYS ROGER BATE
Since 1995 the United Nations Environment Programme has been negotiating a legal treaty under which a dozen chemicals will be eliminated or restricted by international agreement. The fifth and final negotiations, where the delegates are to decide on the final treaty text, take place in South Africa this week.
The UNEP and its green supporters feel they are making the world a safer place by eliminating chemicals that they consider are not only dangerous and environmentally damaging but also unnecessary. However, for many people – mostly poor and living in developing countries – these good intentions are in effect a death sentence. DDT, the pesticide reviled by so many people throughout the world, is one of the 12 chemicals to be listed.
DDT is safe and cheap – and it saves lives.
http://www.malaria.org/
DDT is safe and cheap – and it saves lives.
And in many areas the mosquitoes which spread malaria are resistant to it. It aint black and white Snidely, and DDT is not the only weapon we have against malaria.
zoot,
I’ll trust the people at malaria.org and Malaria Foundation International to make informed judgements concerning the use of DDT to fight malaria.
malaria.org and the Malaria Foundation International are the same thing. A quick look at their sponsors list might suggest as much grain of salt as trust. You can also find a Mr.R Bate on the Pfizer website.
Anthony,
Amongst other things, Pfizer makes antimalarial drugs. How exactly do you imagine Bate, Pfizer, DDT and malaria are connected?
It’ simple isn’t it? DDT used to have a masssssive international market, worth far more than an individual drug. Progressive regulators have got it banned around the world, stopping its damage in a huge number of different environments – and dealing with the resistance problem.
Roll back the ban by suggesting there’s a few places where it was wrong, and you are unravelling edges of the whole blanket. And attacking the principle of universal regulation, which is a good on roughly utilitarian principles. On top of this, DDT’s research costs have been covered a generation ago, so its cheap. By contrast to all this, CSIRO has trouble funding its antimalarial research into cheap health care solutions.. the depth of personal moral depravity required to organise fake “objective” fronts to push insecticides is frightening.
David,
Are you saying that the Malaria Foundation International, the people on its International Board (http://www.malaria.org/IB.html) and on its Scientific Advisory Board (http://www.malaria.org/SAB.html) are part of a morally depraved conspiracy pushing DDT use?