Edited sentence: , testified to the U.A 2007 NY Times Article on the lasting impact of Silent Spring states:.Carson’s disciples who still divide the world into good and bad chemicals, with DDT in their fearsome “dirty dozen.Gordon Edwards entitled "DDT: A case study in scientific fraud.He highlighted the problems caused by Silent Spring in his testimony:.In 2005, Donald Roberts, Ph.In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson used all three strategies on her primary target, DDT.It has done far more damage than DDT ever did.It is a paper by Dr.Malariologists have made a little headway recently in restoring this weapon against the disease, but they’ve had to fight against Ms.Many have written rebuttals to Rachel Carson and others who have, without scientific justification, broadcast long lists of potential harms of insecticides.No book, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has killed more people than Silent Spring.One such rebuttal is attached to my testimony (Annex 1).Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works on the misuse of science in public policy.She argued that insecticides were not really needed and that the use of insecticides produces insects that are insecticide resistant, which only exacerbates the insect control problems.She described a very large list of potential adverse effects of insecticides, DDT in particular.She predicted scary scenarios of severe harm with continued use of DDT and other insecticides.The Sunday Telegraph, in a 2006 editorial titled "Let us spray," criticized Silent Spring in harsh terms:.The human costs have been horrific in the poor countries where malaria returned after DDT spraying was abandoned.The success of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring serves as a model for this tricky triad.We hope its pernicious influence is finally at an end