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title: "Rachel Carson _was_ intellectually dishonest and pseudoscientific..."
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# Rachel Carson _was_ intellectually dishonest and pseudoscientific...

*February 28, 2025 — Comment Kat Woods's post*

Rachel Carson _was_ intellectually dishonest and pseudoscientific though: https://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/edwards.pdf Carson lies caused tremendous harm.  Without DDT, tens of millions of people contracted and died from malaria: "In Africa alone, numerous studies suggest a figure of one million malaria deaths per year since the 1960s. See Robert W. Snow and Judy A. Omumbo, “Malaria,” in Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, D. T. Jamison et al., eds. (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2006). Other estimates are higher; one World Health Organization researcher estimated in the 1990s that there were “1.5 to 2.7 million deaths” from malaria per year in Africa. Thomas C. Nchinda, “Malaria: A Reemerging Disease,” Emerging Infectious Diseases 4, no. 3 (1998). Although malaria deaths have begun to decline in recent years — see the World Health Organization’s annual World Malaria Report for estimates — the total global death toll from malaria since the publication of Silent Spring is probably between 60 and 150 million." https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-truth-about-ddt-and-silent-spring