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Comparing vaccines to DDT seems backwards to me. Perhaps we're more afraid of DDT than we should be, but DDT is moderately toxic and has a soil half-life of up
by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Comparing vaccines to DDT seems backwards to me.
Perhaps we're more afraid of DDT than we should be, but DDT is moderately toxic and has a soil half-life of up to 15 years. (Compare this to a few weeks for Malathion or a few months for Glyphosate.) Bed bugs suck, but they never killed anybody.
Compare this to measles or whooping cough where the vaccine is very safe and the diseases can permanently scar or kill victims.
- philwelch 16y agoBed bugs never killed anybody, but malaria sure does. There are definitely areas of the world where the net positive action for human well-being is a liberal application of DDT.
- jon_hendry 16y agoAnd they never stopped doing surface application of DDT.
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