# 12 Years and who knows how many sickened, Lancet fully recants...

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**Created:** [February 2, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-and-who-knows-how-many-sickened-lancet-fully-recants/527411 "2010-02-02T17:52:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-and-who-knows-how-many-sickened-lancet-fully-recants/527411/61 "2010-02-16T14:02:19Z")

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DDT **is** still in use, and is specifically allowed for malaria and other disease control. However, it’s lost much of its effectiveness in a lot of crucial areas specifically because of overuse.

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**Author:** ![Keweenaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Keweenaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keweenaw)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-and-who-knows-how-many-sickened-lancet-fully-recants/527411/62 "2010-02-16T14:51:44Z")

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There is also the likelihood now that years of on-going autism research will be set back significantly. The paper led others to make the wrong assumptions and fund research that could have been better spent in another area of autism research. It’s tragic that families who have suffered with children with austism have had their passion for a cure mislead by bad science. I think autism activism in principal is noble and necessary.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-and-who-knows-how-many-sickened-lancet-fully-recants/527411/63 "2010-02-16T16:50:36Z")

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> [@ivn1188](#):
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> Well, now that we’ve gotten the junk science of vaccines cleared up, let’s get rid of the junk science on DDT, which has probably killed more people in the last half-century than all other junk science combined (and possibly more than any other cause of death, period).

Well, there’s certainly some junk science in this post.

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