Subject: Could a banned POISON Actually Cause Illness - Why take it seriously?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:12:41 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State
of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Carol Browner browner.carol@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an
e-mail I just received from: Jim West.
"It has been alleged that DDT causes or contributes
to a wide variety of diseases of humans and animals... Such diseases
included... poliomyelitis, ...such irresponsible claims could produce great
harm and, if taken seriously, even interfere with scientific search for true
causes..." (Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology, edited by Wayland J. Hayes,
Jr. and Edward R. Laws, Academic Press Inc., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Publishers, San Diego (1991) 3 volumes, p769)
Is the above statement a threat, delivered to science
students -- students of toxicology? Is it designed to discourage inquiry
regarding an obvious possibility? Is it repression? I think it is.
The excerpt is from a major toxicology textbook. It is a
source for students, who become environmentalists, journalists, medicos,
judges, lawyers, legislators, and scientists -- and even conspiracy-theorists.
The excerpt is an example of the shaping of awareness
that goes on every minute of the day in all forms of media. The unaware (and
the aware) participate to protect their status (among professors, for
instance), and to advance their status (among fellow unawares and
participating awares).
I have gone through many toxicology books looking for the
physiology of acute DDT poisoning -- and the result was "not found".
The only references are to the chemistry of sodium-ion channels in nerve
axons. Physiology is skipped as if it were unimportant. A book printed in
Germany 1949 by Daniel Dresden, however, describes DDT poisoning as very
similar to polio: disintegration of the anterior horn of the spine.
***
Well Mr. Helliker, It would seem that "sound
science" already has its "mind" made up and does not wish to be
confused with any facts and/or to even consider any obvious possibilities
regarding any possible negative health effects caused by your
"registered" POISONS! .
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
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