At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

1. Against absolutes Although the chemical industry attacked “Silent Spring” as anti-science and anti-progress, Carson believed that chemicals had their place in agriculture. She “favored a restrained ...

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Rachel Carson : her vision and her legacy / Shirley A. Briggs -- The not so silent spring / John A. Moore -- The science and politics of pesticides / C.F. Wilkinson -- Assessing the toxicity of ...

That was well understood by evolutionists early on, but it took a marine biologist and talented writer, Rachel Carson, to bring the pesticide problem to public attention and, incidentally, to launch ...

Toxicology emerges in public health crises -- DDT and environmental toxicology -- The University of Chicago Toxicity Laboratory -- The toxicity of organophosphate chemicals -- What's the risk? : ...

The Cronkite article (Nov. 11), “The human toll of Yuma’s vegetable empire,” reminded me of the expression, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Farmland of Yuma is being sprayed ...