The Dirt On Earth Day

The Dirt On Earth Day - Forbes
Consider this quote from Edwards’ essay: “This implication that DDT is horribly deadly is completely false.
Human volunteers have ingested as much as 35 milligrams of it a day for nearly two years and suffered no adverse effects.
Millions of people have lived with DDT intimately during the mosquito spray programs and nobody even got sick as a result.
The National Academy of Sciences concluded in 1965 that ‘in a little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million [human] deaths that would otherwise have been inevitable.’
The World Health Organization stated that DDT had ‘killed more insects and saved more people than any other substance.’”