tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post7710578652321941109..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: What If Rachel Carson Was Wrong?Darrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-33366401617283909752012-12-05T17:36:05.274-08:002012-12-05T17:36:05.274-08:00We routinely allow the agencies that control certi...We routinely allow the agencies that control certification of food, drugs, toys and products to decide what is and is not allowed based on flimsy evidence that fits with the prevailing political overlord of the time. For example, DDT was banned with little real evidence. The Alar scare nearly put a company out of business without any real evidence of damage. Jenny McCarthy has almost singlehandedly condemned thousands of children to suffer from previously eradicated childhood diseases based on unproven assertions that vaccinations cause autism.(Can you image the hue and cry should pot become legalized and then THAT'S shown to be the cause?) Yet the same administration that backs all these types of actions, lets the EPA do testing with higher amounts of corn ethanol in cars using just eleven cars, and despite a nearly 25% engine failure rate, passes it on with little regard to what kind of damage can happen when a car suddenly stops on a speeding highway. It's always about agenda, never facts. Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-550168268807922812012-12-03T18:45:42.993-08:002012-12-03T18:45:42.993-08:00To answer the question at the end of your post Dar...To answer the question at the end of your post Darren, it's millions of black children. <br /><br />If she wasn't a liberal Jessee, Al et all would have had her drawn and quartered.Mike Thiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-84901292041478068042012-12-03T18:14:10.045-08:002012-12-03T18:14:10.045-08:00I thought it was pretty old news that Carson was a...I thought it was pretty old news that Carson was a scientific fraud. <br /><br />She was well known for leaving out crucial, contradictory facts, couching unsupported assertions as facts and making lurid predictions of imminent catastrophe on no evidence at all.<br /><br />As to how many people died due to Carson's fraud, that number's easily in the millions. She may not occupy the heights of such other famous sources of human misery like Mao, Stalin and Hitler but she's no piker either.allen (in Michigan)noreply@blogger.com