Andrew Goliszek (In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation, 2003) wrote ... "After DDT, the potent insecticide that replaced lead arsenate) was developed, the U.S. government dusted millions of soldiers to prevent malaria and typhus. This miracle chemical that killed hundreds of different pest species was made famous in a 1948 Life Magazine photograph of a teen aged girl eating a hot dog surrounded by a cloud of DDT. What DuPont scientists did not realize until decades later was the extent to which their altered molecules and synthetic chemicals would accumulate in the environment and continue to show up in the blood of virtually every American twenty-five years after its ban."
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 03:27:03 +0000
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