Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

140 Post author: Yvain 09 April 2009 02:44AM

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 09 April 2009 05:03:22PM 3 points [-]

DDT isn't banned, never has been.. I'm with you on most everything else.

From a 1972 Environmental Protection Agency press release entitled "DDT Ban Takes Effect":

The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today, ending nearly three decades of application during which time the once-popular chemical was used to control insect pests on crop and forest lands, around homes and gardens, and for industrial and commercial purposes.