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The article doesn't leave it out. It also discusses the (frankly insane, but well documented) history of the tobacco industry using that narrative as a "morality tale about one poison, to sell another poison".

Yes, DDT was useful in malaria eradication - and would have been more useful for that purpose if it had been restricted from its most important economic use case as an agricultural pesticide.

Remember: it was agricultural use Carson (and others) argued against, and it was due to agricultural use immunity spread so it's no longer useful for vector control.



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