TOTALLY GEEKED!

I haven't read it.

I'll ask Wayne, if he has.

Lindley wrote:

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It was about DDT, per my parents and other people we had the mosquito population under control and so as maleria. I don’t believe her book isn’t base on a study, but I could be wrong. I just heard that it wasn’t very factual but caused a lot of fear.

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 She, as a woman Scientist, was not credible and had one article after another turned down for publication.  She had validation from other Scientists of her findings and so presented it in a fiction book based on factual events that occurred. Everything she wrote with her implied conclusions are coming to fruition.  Her main point was that science had made great strides in eradicating many diseases caused by bugs but because those bugs' populations were decreased may have caused other issues, plus bugs became resilient to the toxins and so we must analyze the future impact on the food chain and humans.

Oh, my hatred isn't reserved for Monsanto. There's Bayer as well as Dupont.

But Monsanto is the one messing with our food supply with their Round-up ready seeds.

Stick to selling poison as poison, not wrapping it up as food and tricking people into eating it.

I don't know, mosquitoes carry lots of diseases, I know of at least two kids that caught encephalitis from mosquito bites and when my daughter and her family lived in Indonesia at times she had to keep her girls in because of outbreaks of dengue fever carried by mosquitoes, not to mention malaria.

Lindley wrote:

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I don't know, mosquitoes carry lots of diseases, I know of at least two kids that caught encephalitis from mosquito bites and when my daughter and her family lived in Indonesia at times she had to keep her girls in because of outbreaks of dengue fever carried by mosquitoes, not to mention malaria.

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 Yes but think about this. Bats feed on mosquitoes.  because of the reduction for the mosquito population, the bat population is dying off.  BUT some of the mosquitoes are becoming immune so their population will increase but only after the bats have died off, then what?

For emphasis, perhaps.

Would it be better to work on cures rather than messing with mother nature?

Personally I would rather prevent the illnesses and kill all the mosquitoes.

Zika, yellow fever which Florida I heard is having a outbreak, those scare me more then the threat to nature. A lot of things were claimed to destroy nature but living organisms thrive instead of being destroyed

But you are right - life will find a way. And the mosquitoes will come back stronger and more deadly.

FNW wrote:

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Then focus on a cure for Zika and yellow fever, IMO.

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 Yep.  We need cures.  Every time you try to outsmart mother nature, she slaps back in very bad ways.

burns07 wrote:

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in africa there are still over a million deaths a year from malaria--mosquitos are the primary transmitter of the disease

what are a million lives worth?

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 Malaria can be cured.  And once cured the mosquitoes will no longer be drawing blood from infected humans.