Global status of DDT and its alternatives for use in vector control to prevent disease (UNEP/POPS/DDTBP.1/2)
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2008
Archived copy (Wayback Machine).
Pack Vibes Why the Fastest Animal on Earth Couldn't Lay Eggs
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Where this comes from
6 sources
6 claims
Every claim below links to the sources behind it. Peer-reviewed research and public records come first.
3 Agencies and public records 3 Reporting 1 Reference
What the film says
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DDT was used in World War II against malaria and typhus.
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Paul Hermann Müller discovered DDT's insecticidal action and won the Nobel Prize.
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The US banned the agricultural use of DDT in 1972.
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The peregrine falcon was removed from the US endangered species list in 1999.
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DDT and its breakdown product DDE caused eggshell thinning and population declines in birds of prey.
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Rachel Carson, a marine biologist, published Silent Spring in 1962 and died of breast cancer in 1964.
Sources
Agencies and public records
Peregrine Falcon Questions and Answers
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Archived copy (Wayback Machine).
The Case of DDT: Revisiting the Impairment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (CADDIS)
Reporting
Beyond Silent Spring: An Alternate History of DDT
Science History Institute
Duxbury celebrates local nature lover, voice of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
The Boston Globe, 2012
Confirms Silent Spring was published in September 1962 and Carson died of breast cancer in 1964.
Rachel Carson's 1952 National Book Award acceptance speech
Popova, M.. The Marginalian, 2022
Describes Carson as a poet turned marine biologist.
Reference
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948
NobelPrize.org
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