On Sept. 15, the World Health Organization strongly endorsed the indoor spraying of DDT to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes in developing countries. At a press conference, WHO spokesmen repeatedly ...

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In recent dramatic and often unequivocal headlines—such as with this BBC article—“DDT: Pesticide linked to Alzheimer’s—news agencies across the globe have been promoting claims that the insecticide ...

Something a little bizarre going down this morning at Dallas County Commissioners Court. Or not. A number of people are supposed to show up at this morning’s commissioners meeting to speak against a ...

Michael Skinner didn’t start the experiment with the hypothesis that he’d find a connection between the insecticide DDT and obesity. “We didn’t expect to find that,” he said. “In fact, the frequency ...

Following elm spraying on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin in 1959-61, at least 232 adult Robins apparently died of DDT poisoning between the extreme dates of 6 April and 20 June with ...

It’s not the fog of war, but it’s a war on bugs. And sometimes it’s fought with, well, fog. Recent efforts to halt the spread of the Zika virus in Florida bring to mind other times authorities have ...