{"id":2399,"date":"2007-06-11T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/11\/the-murderous-church-of-rachel-carson\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T08:05:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T13:05:05","slug":"the-murderous-church-of-rachel-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/the-murderous-church-of-rachel-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murderous Church of Rachel Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemagazine.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28679\">FrontPageMagazine.com<\/a> | Eli Lehrer | June 11, 2007<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years after her birth in May of 1907, it&#8217;s difficult to underestimate Rachel Carson&#8217;s influence. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s all bad. That hasn&#8217;t stopped her from remaining an academic deity to the campus Left.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A wildlife bureaucrat by profession (she eventually became the chief publications editor for the Fish and Wildlife Service), Carson wrote what has become the seminal text of the environmental movement: 1962&#8217;s Silent Spring. The book, a gloomy, sometimes hysterical tract, argues that chemicals in the environment do enormous harm to humans and wildlife. The pesticide DDT gets singled out for particular blame and is indicted for destroying wildlife and causing enormous problems in humans. While DDT may harm certain types of wildlife, nobody has even come close to proving Carson&#8217;s claim that &#8220;one in four&#8221; people might die from chemically caused cancers, her strong implication that the most pesticides were first developed as a chemical weapons, or her new-age speculation that human bodies build up enormous stores of dangerous environmental toxins.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the book, however, DDT faced a near-total worldwide ban. In the developed world, where alternatives were available, this ban had little consequence. For the world&#8217;s truly poor, the ban on DDT proved a disaster. As a result, deaths from mosquito-borne malaria and other diseases that the pesticide had controlled skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p>Millions, most of them children under five living in the underdeveloped world, have died as a result. Clearly, the book had a negative influence.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemagazine.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28679\">more<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FrontPageMagazine.com | Eli Lehrer | June 11, 2007 One hundred years after her birth in May of 1907, it&#8217;s difficult to underestimate Rachel Carson&#8217;s influence. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s all bad. That hasn&#8217;t stopped her from remaining an academic deity to the campus Left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junk-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}