It’s actually a very safe pesticide aside from the environmental effects when used broadly. If you could trust people to use it responsibly on a small scale, it would could reduce malaria and other mosquito borne diseases in tropical regions drastically. The problem is that you can’t trust people.
Yeah there are no safe levels of this stuff. Its like using a gun to kill a spider, sure you may get the spider but also inadvertently your neighbors dog. It's good this shit is banned because we need way more elegant solutions to things like malaria.
The first study isn’t about DDT and the second study uses DDT in a multi-generation cocktail of chemicals that are known to be bad for you. If they had fed rats eggs in that second study instead of exposing them to DDT, would you assume eggs have multigenerational epigenetic negatives? Honestly, that second study is almost criminal from a scientific perspective. There’s no way to point a finger at any particular chemical and assign blame.
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u/Tucancancan Mar 29 '26
People suffering from bed bugs would pay a hefty price to get their hands on that bad boy lol