Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou
That's in areas that use DDT in agricultural applications- which turned out to be a stupid idea for many reasons.

100 Things you should know about DDT
I will not go into a "human lives saved with this method, compared to the deaths and enviromental damage due to the side-effects" as it would require more research than I'm willing to make, but I recommend that you also take notice of what is mentioned in the wiki article and not refuted among those 109 points.

On a simular note, what's up with the general anti-scientiffical mainstream movements in the US? It seems to be quite a bit of them currently. Not that they shouldn't be there (well some are a bit wacko though, well they're funny to laugh at), but that "we know the truth but the world tries to silence us" attitude can be a bit too prevalent sometimes.