Editing DDT (section)

===Criticism of restrictions on DDT use===
Restrictions on DDT usage have been criticized by some organizations opposed to the environmental movement, including [[Roger Bate]] of the pro-DDT advocacy group [[Africa Fighting Malaria]] and the libertarian [[think tank]] [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]]; these sources oppose restrictions on DDT and attribute large numbers of deaths to such restrictions, sometimes in the millions.<ref name="Crichton">{{cite news |title=Rachel Carson Didn't Kill Millions of Africans |first=William |last=Souder |name-list-style=vanc |date=September 4, 2012 |work=Slate |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/silent_spring_turns_50_biographer_william_souder_clears_up_myths_about_rachel_carson_.html |access-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-date=April 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422025120/http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/silent_spring_turns_50_biographer_william_souder_clears_up_myths_about_rachel_carson_.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Oreskes |first1=Naomi |author-link1=Naomi Oreskes |last2=Conway |first2=Erik M. |author-link2=Erik M. Conway |title=Merchants of Doubt |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=New York |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-59691-610-4 |title-link=Merchants of Doubt|page=217}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Baum|first=Rudy M.|date=June 4, 2007|title=Rachel Carson|journal=Chemical and Engineering News|volume=85|issue=23|page=5|url=http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/85/i23/html/8523editor.html}}</ref> These arguments were rejected as "outrageous" by former WHO scientist [[Socrates Litsios]].<ref name="salon"/> [[May Berenbaum]], [[University of Illinois]] entomologist, says, "to blame environmentalists who oppose DDT for more deaths than Hitler is worse than irresponsible".<ref name="salon"/> More recently, [[Michael Palmer (chemist)|Michael Palmer]], a professor of chemistry at the [[University of Waterloo]], has pointed out that DDT is still used to prevent malaria, that its declining use is primarily due to increases in manufacturing costs, and that in Africa, efforts to control malaria have been regional or local, not comprehensive.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~mpalmer/stuff/DDT-myth.pdf |title=The ban of DDT did not cause millions to die from malaria |first=Michael |last=Palmer |date=29 September 2016 |publisher=University of Waterloo |access-date=August 14, 2018 |archive-date=June 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616080102/http://science.uwaterloo.ca/~mpalmer/stuff/DDT-myth.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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 |author = Hans Herren & Charles Mbogo<ref name="Herren Mbogo 2010 pp. a282–a282">{{cite journal | vauthors = Herren HR, Mbogo C | title = The role of DDT in malaria control | journal = Environmental Health Perspectives | volume = 118 | issue = 7 | pages = A282–A283; author reply A283 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20601331 | doi = 10.1289/ehp.1002279 | pmc=2920925}}</ref>
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Criticisms of a DDT "ban" often specifically reference the 1972 United States ban (with the erroneous implication that this constituted a worldwide ban and prohibited use of DDT in vector control). Reference is often made to ''Silent Spring'', even though Carson never pushed for a DDT ban. [[John Quiggin]] and Tim Lambert wrote, "the most striking feature of the claim against Carson is the ease with which it can be refuted".<ref name="quig">{{cite news |first1=John |last1=Quiggin |first2=Tim |last2=Lambert |title=Rehabilitating Carson |newspaper=[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]] |date=May 2008 |url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/rehabilitatingcarson/ |name-list-style=vanc |access-date=June 22, 2012 |archive-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413043951/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/rehabilitatingcarson |url-status=live }}</ref>

Investigative journalist Adam Sarvana and others characterize these notions as "myths" promoted principally by [[Roger Bate]] of the pro-DDT advocacy group [[Africa Fighting Malaria]] (AFM).<ref name="NRNS">{{cite news |url=http://www.nrns.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51:bate-and-switch-how-a-free-market-magician-manipulated-two-decades-of-environmental-science- |title=Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science |last=Sarvana |first=Adam |name-list-style=vanc |date=May 28, 2009 |publisher=Natural Resources New Service |access-date=June 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524144406/http://www.nrns.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51%3Abate-and-switch-how-a-free-market-magician-manipulated-two-decades-of-environmental-science- |archive-date=May 24, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="Guts">{{cite book|last=Gutstein|first=Donald|name-list-style=vanc|title=Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda is Hijacking Democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDRePgAACAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Key Porter Books |isbn=978-1-55470-191-9|access-date=August 29, 2022|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019223230/https://books.google.com/books?id=zDRePgAACAAJ|url-status=live}}. Relevant excerpt at {{cite magazine |url=https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2010/01/22/DDTPropaganda/ |title=Inside the DDT Propaganda Machine |last=Gutstein |first=Donald |name-list-style=vanc |date=January 22, 2010 |magazine=[[The Tyee]] |access-date=January 22, 2010 |archive-date=January 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125172424/http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2010/01/22/DDTPropaganda/ |url-status=live }}</ref>