Junk Science Killing Millions

We often hear from the liberals that the end result is not what is important, what is important is the intentions.  And no matter how you argue with them, they always come back to the "intentions".

30 years ago, with little or no scientific evidence to back them up, the EPA banned DDT.  It was supposed to be ruining the environment and killing Bald eagles, but as we later found out, it was poachers endangering the eagles, not DDT.

The elimination of DDT was not to bad of a hardship on America because the primary target of DDT, disease carrying mosquitoes, had been effectively contained by other methods (this was before West Nile came along).

But it was and is a hardship in many tropical countries as millions of people are dying from malaria and estimates are that half a billion are being made sick.  But because DDT was labeled a carcinogen (with no empirical data to back it up), the production and exportation is banned around the world by not only the US government, but that Bastion of Integrity, the UN.

So I guess we can tell that family that just lost a child "But you might have gotten cancer if you ate 10 pounds of the stuff for a year".  I am sure that will assuage their loss real well.

The left blasts the conservatives for not being eco friendly, when in fact nothing is farther from the truth.  Conservatives are just willing to entertain the possibility that not everything man made is bad for mankind or the environment.

35 years ago, we were told that cyclamates would kill you.  25 years later, we learned the truth "Oops, just kidding".  At least millions did not die because the eco-alarmists got it wrong that time.

Millions are dying because they got it wrong this time tho.