Douglas_Knight comments on Against Cryonics & For Cost-Effective Charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 10 August 2010 06:38:31PM 2 points [-]

Of course I've seen lots of articles like that.

The first article opens with "the World Health Organization (WHO) has ended its ban on DDT" which is simply a lie. The third article makes the less verifiable:

Meanwhile, vast swathes of the anti-malaria community, including the malaria teams within national donor agencies, are quietly opposed to DDT. Agencies include insecticide spraying in their literature, but then run No-Spray programs.

but I have never seen evidence of this claim. In fact, I have seen it confabulated on the spot by people caught in the first lie.