Rachel Carson saved lives (or tried to), not destroyed them (DDT and malaria)

[Bridget_Burke]

@Apos

I don’t trust the CEI as far as I can throw them. They routinely selectively and creatively present facts and cites in order to mislead people, and the rest of the article is the exact standard malaria narrative I just spent the thread debunking.

From Sourcewatch:

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a neoliberal think tank based in Washington DC. It calls itself “a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. We believe that individuals are best helped not by government intervention, but by making their own choices in a free marketplace.”

On its website CEI states that it “serves as both a think tank—creating intellectual ammunition to support free markets—and an advocacy organization—putting that ammunition to use in persuasive ways.”

It postures as an advocate of “sound science” in the development of public policy. However, CEI projects dispute the overwhelimng scientific evidence that human induced greenhouse gas emissions are driving climate change. They have a program for “challenging government regulations”, push property rights as a solution to environment problems, opposed US vehicle fuel efficiency standards and been a booster for the drug industry.

www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute

Lots of heavyweights in that group. I couldn’t throw them a centimeter. And I trust them even less than that.

[Emilio_Lizardo]

My wife used to work for CEI, and she assures me that their data should not be used for any form of scientific citation.