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== Effects of consumption of DDT by humans ==
In a 2009 study, DDT was [[DDT#Effects on human health|linked]] to various health problems in humans.<ref name=Eskenazi2009/> However, the negative health effects on humans have not always been apparent. ''[[Time Magazine]]'', reported on August 1, 1971, that Pest Control Executive Robert Loibl and his wife Louise start breakfast with a 10 mg capsule of DDT to demonstrate its safety, doing so for three months in front of witnesses.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 11, 1971 |title=DDT diet |work=[[Arizona Republic]] |location=[[Phoenix, Arizona]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/119818354/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The well-known British entomologist [[Kenneth Mellanby]] often ate small amounts of DDT during his 40 years of lectures. On p.&nbsp;75 of his 1992 book ''The DDT Story'', Mellanby famously wrote:
{{Quote|[The] consumption of smaller doses in the milligram range appears to be quite harmless. I know that I myself, when lecturing about DDT during the years immediately after World War II, frequently consumed a substantial pinch of DDT, to the consternation of the audience, but with no apparent harm to myself, either then or during the next 40 years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Black |first=Richard |date=March 4, 2004 |title=Battle over anti-malaria chemical |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3532273.stm |website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kealey |first=Terence |date=19 Jul 2001 |title=DDT is safe: just ask the professor who ate it for 40 years |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4264030/DDT-is-safe-just-ask-the-professor-who-ate-it-for-40-years.html |website=UK Telegraph}}</ref>}}
The entomologist [[J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist and mountaineer)|Gordon Edwards]] also frequently demonstrated DDT consumption, and he appeared in the September 1971 edition of ''[[Esquire magazine]]'' doing so. None of them reported any psychoactive effects of their consumption of DDT.

There have been no reports of this tasteless chemical having any psychoactive effects. The comparison to absinthe basically does not indicate any effect at all (aside from that of the alcohol in the cocktail), since the assumed psychedelic effect of absinthe, that is, the effect of the chemical [[thujone]], has in recent times been revealed to be close to non-existent.<ref name="sap_absinthism">{{Cite journal |last1=Padosch |first1=Stephan A |last2=Lachenmeier |first2=Dirk W |last3=Kröner |first3=Lars U |year=2006 |title=Absinthism: a fictitious 19th century syndrome with present impact |journal=Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy |volume=1 |page=14 |doi=10.1186/1747-597X-1-14 |pmc=1475830 |pmid=16722551 |doi-access=free }}</ref>