Boris
2008-06-13 19:13:09

“In the early 1960s, several developing countries had nearly wiped out malaria. After they stopped using DDT, malaria came raging back and other control methods have had only modest success.”

This is true, but you are reading way too much into this quotation. The countries stopped spraying DDT because malaria had been nearly eradicated. What they did was create an evolutionary bottleneck where only DDT resistant mosquitoes survived and then multiplied. When they resumed spraying, and they DID resume spraying DDT, it was no longer effective.

See

http://timlambert.org/2005/02/malaria/

for the example of Sri Lanka.

And the reason no one has been sued is because courts, rather than blogs, require actual evidence.