Comments on: Big Green’s Silent Spring For Rachel Carson — Take Two

By: community grants

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By: Johnie Sutphen

Johnie Sutphen — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:09:54 +0000

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By: bug_girl

bug_girl — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:47:07 +0000

My most recent posts on the topic:
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/ddt-malaria-insecticide-resistance/#more-313

http://membracid.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/ddt-junk-science-malaria-and-the-attack-on-rachel-carson/

I was thinking of the Entomological Society of America, and the Ecological Society of America–both professional scientific organizations.

BTW, May Berenbaum has done an awesome job of discussing this, and you can’t get more credibility than May. In addition to being just about universally beloved, she’s a member of the National Academy, and Chair of her Entomology Department. Here article is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060400130.html

I’m going to contact her this week to ask if she’ll sponsor a resolution that the society can endorse. The National Geographic article just annoyed me so much, I am past trying to protect my career.

By: Hank Roberts

Hank Roberts — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:57:29 +0000

> I’d love to help, but after a week of personal attacks
> on my blog and via email, I’m not so sure

This is the scary part — fifty years of attacks on the science and anyone trying to talk about it in a way that actually educates the public, and they are continuing.

What worries me is that the corporations may have learned far more about fooling the public from the history of the tobacco industry than the journalists did. And they don’t intend to lose the current war on science.

By: Keith Schneider

Keith Schneider — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:50:29 +0000

Big Girl,
Give me your blog and I’ll take a look. The national organizations that should be involved, as identified in the first post on this subject on May 30, are the NRDC, Environmental Defense, Audobon, and Sierra Club. Thanks, Keith

By: bug_girl

bug_girl — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:00:47 +0000

Thanks for this! I’m trying to do my part to set some of the biological errors straight at my blog. By “national organizations” what ones do you have one in mind?

I’d love to help, but after a week of personal attacks on my blog and via email, I’m not so sure.

By: Marjorie Mazel Hecht

Marjorie Mazel Hecht — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:42:19 +0000

When Rachel Carson’s book came out in 1962, naturalist and entomologist J. Gordon Edwards was eager to read it. But when he began to look at the scientific studies she cited, he was very troubled at her misreporting. His article about Caron is available on our website. Edwards, now deceased, was a mountaineer and a birder.

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/Carson.html

Marje Hecht
Managing Editor
21st Century Science & Technology
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com

By: Bill Kovarik

Bill Kovarik — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:45:52 +0000

Whether the campaign against Carson’s ideas in the 1960s was designed by the
chemical industry to protect its markets, or whether the worldviews
of the agricultural communities were simply too narrow to question
their own practices and consider alternatives, I’ve actually never
been able to quite understand. Probably some of both.

Another thing: In the recent global warming debate have we clearly seen the hand of industry censors reaching through government to stifle legitimate science. Have they
actually become less adept at the technique over the years; are they
so clumsy now as to be repeatedly caught at it?

Carson’s tenure at Fish and Wildlife was cut short by cancer, but God
knows what would have happened to her career today.

By: fountainmeadows

fountainmeadows — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:15:59 +0000

I’m totally sympathetic with honoring Rachel Carson and her contributions, but I’m not sure the focus on her achievements or even the continuing documentation of all the environmental changes and loss of wildlife holds much promise in turning things around from where we find ourselves in our environmental dilemmas. The battle needs broader allies beyond the activist life sciences and pundit classes.

Call me a cynic, but I don’t think ‘we’ as a human race will respond to anything short of understanding this as a crisis to our own well being of personal health. And who’s to diagnose such disorder? I think responsibility needs to be placed on the doorstep of our medical community to administer a clear prescriptive for change for the sake of human health. Hand in hand with biologists and environmental engineers of all stripes, those in medicine need to step up and take some leadership in supporting changes where compromise is still more risk than sound medical science should be supporting.

Waiting for all the canaries to drop may take too long while the subtle (and not so subtle) declines in human health conditions may hold more direct impact to turn political will on these issues.