Comments on: Global Warming Facts (Claims?) from Peter Dupont, and DDT in Ceylon http://www.rasmusen.org/x/2007/02/22/global-warming-facts-from-peter-dupont-and-ddt-in-ceylon/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:16:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Tim Lambert http://www.rasmusen.org/x/2007/02/22/global-warming-facts-from-peter-dupont-and-ddt-in-ceylon/#comment-217805 Tim Lambert Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:23:43 +0000 http://www.rasmusen.org/x/2007/02/22/global-warming-facts-from-peter-dupont-and-ddt-in-ceylon/#comment-217805 I am dismayed that you would consider an op-ed that goes so many facts incorrect to be "excellent". An example of one the things wrong: Sri Lanka didn't end the use of DDT in 1968. They switched from DDT to Malathion in 1975, not because of environmentalism, but because the mosquitoes had developed resistance and DDT was no longer effective. <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/02/the_wall_street_journal_editor.php" rel="nofollow">More here</a> I am dismayed that you would consider an op-ed that goes so many facts incorrect to be “excellent”. An example of one the things wrong:

Sri Lanka didn’t end the use of DDT in 1968. They switched from DDT to Malathion in 1975, not because of environmentalism, but because the mosquitoes had developed resistance and DDT was no longer effective.

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