New insights on pesticide exposure and autism

Re:New insights on pesticide exposure and autism by gadders on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:26PM (#17927405)

>>The awareness she helped raise contributed to the founding of the EPA and the banning of DDT.

..and caused the deaths of millions of people to malaria [1]

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-rachel-carson-cost-million...

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Re:New insights on pesticide exposure and autism by gowld on Thursday September 06, 2018 @01:23PM (#17927794)

That's a controversial claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Criticism_of_restrictions_...

and you have to balance the effects of reduced DDT use (even if that did cause malaria resurgence) against the overall effects of getting public interest into the consequences of newly invented chemicals, and creating the EPA and general oversight of pesticides.

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