Written by Bart Knols, Medical Entomologist (Dodewaard, Netherlands) the Managing Director of MalariaWorld:

No, no, it’s not that white stuff. It’s that other white powder. The one that makes some of us go mad with anger, whilst others relentlessly defend its use. That some claim will give you breast cancer, whilst others say you can drink and inhale it without any harm. That some claim will destroy our environment, whilst others oppose by saying it will save millions of lives.

Here’s the story of DDT: Mankind’s most controversial chemical ever. Discovered in 1874 by a chemistry student named Otmar Zeidler. Found to be a superb bug killing chemical in the late 1930s by Swiss chemist Paul Muller. For which he got a Nobel Prize in 1948.

Lies, scare mongering, and environmentalist lobbying

According to Prof. Don Roberts and co-authors, who recently published the book ‘The Excellent Powder: DDT’s political and scientific history’, we were all fooled by a bunch of liars, including Carson. Roberts goes as far as accusing the greens for deliberately forcing the ban on DDT so that developing countries could not be protected from malaria and thus avoid an unbridled population explosion. Saving Africans from malaria would merely result in a population explosion. Better get rid of DDT.

The net result: The disease that no longer bears on us is killing a million kids in Africa each year. And that’s our fault, thanks to the greenies, says Roberts.

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