The 5 Most Ridiculously Over-Hyped Health Scares of All Time

Wait. Aren't ospreys and peregrine falcons the same bird?

My Dad was there for the clean up, I still have all the pictures. When he was done his hands and feet were full of radiation so they taped him up with plastic bags and sent him to work on another power plant. A lot of the guys sent in after were exposed to a lot of radiation. Good news my sister only has ADHD and works on military aircrafts.

Your right, its more like a virus that develops an immunity to a vaccine. Still, it doesn't change the fact that if you don't kill all the insects, a few will inevitably develop a resistance to DDT (evolution) and make the problem worse. I don't know much about Diabetes and insulin, but I don't think insulin makes Diabetes worse.

The reason we should worry that birds are being killed from DDT is that, like us, they are higher up on the food web. DDT concentrations increase each time you move up a step in the food chain, so DDT could have a similar effect on humans if we spray the crap out of everything.

Yeah, malaria does = massive suck. However, I really think there must be a better solution for the present that doesn't endanger our future.

Yeah, Texan12, why bother spraying DDT? Mosquitos will only develop resistance to it. Definitely not a long-term solution.

Also you diabetics should stop taking insulin because we know it isn't going to cure your diabetes. What you need to find is a LONG-TERM solution.

It still stands that DDT kills a crapload of malaria-carrying mosquitos. And having malaria = massive suck.

I say let the DDT flow. I couldn't care less what happens to a couple species of birds if it means a dramatic decrease in malaria-related deaths.

And if you really want to be a smarty-pants, the way we develop a resistance to the flu and how mosquitos would develop a resistance against DDT is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. So there.

Silent Spring, while most definitely a boring piece of literature, hardly deserves to be a "Ridiculously Over-Hyped Health Scare".

The evidence in this article disavowing Carson's hypothesis that DDT is dangerous is both sparse and qualitative. An increase in the population of 26 bird species is trivial to the fact that there are thousands of other bird species in the US alone.

Also, DDT has never been banned for anti-malaria use. Even so, the use of pesticides to decrease the population of disease carrying insects is a temporary solution, as it would only be a matter of time before the insect would develop an immunity to the pesticide (much like you or I would develop a resistance to the flu).

I hardly see how one could think Carson's work resulted in a panic- there is no evidence linking Silent Spring to any harmful side effect. Oh, unless your talking about the "increase of approximately a bajilllion fofillion percent".

Wait! Kinda like parsley is a health scare now?!

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hippies overreact too much and end up dooming everything they try to save.that's why Kiera gets on my nerves a little too much these days...

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Make no bones about it, behind a stiff majority of these "scares" are people who's buddies need a little "government contract" work. I've seen it, many times.

Maybe you should do an article about 10 Ridicules Ways Proved To Be Able To Give You Cancer...
Or a Top 100. There are so many silly/weird ones, I promise you!

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I actually had to read Silent Spring my senior year of high school
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