"the most striking feature of the claim against Carson is the ease with which it can be refuted." DDT was never banned for anti-malarial use,[92] (its ban for a

"the most striking feature of the claim against Carson is the ease with which it can be refuted." DDT was never banned for anti-malarial use,[92] (its ban for agricultural use in the United States in 1972 did not apply outside the US or to anti-malaria spraying;[93] the international treaty that banned most uses of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides—the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants—included an exemption for DDT for the use of malaria control until affordable substitutes could be found.)[86] Mass outdoor spraying of DDT was abandoned in poor countries subject to malaria, such as Sri Lanka, in the 1970s and 1980s, not because of government prohibitions, but because the DDT had lost its ability to kill the mosquitoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson