re: Anti- science liberals vs anti-science conservatives: who is more dangerous?

Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" was shown to be full of flawed science. Many environment groups believe that their promotion of said "science" resulted in the movement's first major victory, the banning of DDT.

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The legacy of Rachel Carson is that tens of millions of human lives – mostly children in poor, tropical countries – have been traded for the possibility of slightly improved fertility in raptors. This remains one of the monumental human tragedies of the last century.

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