From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:27:05 +1000, "James A. Donald"   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Helen Hall   
   >> Erm.... I don't remember DDT being banned in order to   
   >> protect mosquitos.   
      
   > It was restricted to protect the welfare of birds that   
   > eat mosquitoes, balance of nature blah blah blah -   
   > songbirds being more charismatic than mosquitoes.   
      
   True as far as it goes, but misleadingly (and typically)   
   incomplete.  It was restricted on the grounds that (1) there   
   was evidence, albeit mixed, that it was a danger to wildlife   
   *and* human health, and (2) it was persistent, a   
   circumstance that would tend to exacerbate any dangers that   
   actually existed.   
      
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