As I've said I don't do entertainment or sports unless it has some social significance, and this does. It's been 14 years now since this documentary was first introduced to America, and I was privileged to be invited to the New York premier, and pleased to find I was listed in the credits as the Pest Control Consultant, although I played a very small role in this undertaking, of which I'm proud. A documentary that works to force the world to know the ban on DDT is based on lies!
Rachel Carson's claims in her science fiction book, Silent Spring, about decreases in mammal and avian wildlife as a
result of DDT were simply wrong, and actual lies. One of the many claims by Carson was
that robins were in danger of extinction as a result of continued use of
DDT. The truth was that there were more robins in the DDT era than
before. And according to Audubon bird charts, there many have been as
many as 47 times more. World renowned Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson
stated that the robin was the most abundant bird in North America around
the same time that “Silent Spring” came out.
Dr. D. Rutledge Taylor was behind the making of this feature documentary film which debunks the lies about DDT, and makes clear once and for all the devastation the America’s ban on DDT caused worldwide.
The research that went into this film was a massive undertaking. Oftentimes we will read that there were over 9,000 pages of testimony in the DDT hearing presided over by Judge Sweeney. The Doc managed to find the original documents that have been stored all of these years at the National Archives. He knows they were the originals because he cut the wrappings himself – they had never been opened. The comments made by Judge Sweeney, and I believe that there were 90 pages in that ruling, made it very clear that the ban on DDT was not a scientific decision, but a political decision made by the first director of the Environmental Protection Agency, William Ruckelshaus, which he later admitted.
In this feature documentary film, Dr. Rutledge Taylor addresses all the
claims, from cancer to bird shell thinning and more. This is a film that should be seen by every
regulator and legislator, along with their staffs. Carson's pseudo-science
ideologies are still taught in high schools this very day! My hope is
that this film will rectify that.
We need to accept the idea those who promoted the ban, and those who continue to defend it today, need to be held accountable for the human misery, suffering, and death this ban caused.
I've just discovered it's now being streamed on Tubi. Please take some time and watch it.
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