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Rachel Carson's birthday bashing
The right has revved up its claim that the environmental pioneer who criticized DDT was responsible for the spread of malaria that killed millions. The facts say otherwise.
By Kirsten Weir [2007-06-29]

  • Waiting For The Stick Herself To Wade Into This Cesspool

    I mean, how long until Annie Coulter slimes her way into the fray? This one is up there with her "Darwinism-killed-more-people-than-Adolph-Hitler" braying. This one seems custom made for her schtick. And heck, she can make insults about Rachel Carson's looks and sexuality while she's at it. I mean, when you read something this bugf&ck stupid:

    <<Foremost among the finger-pointers is Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who blocked bills to honor Carson and name a Pennsylvania post office for her. Coburn's Web site links visitors to Rachel Was Wrong, a site hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (a free-market think tank known for, among other things, disputing evidence that human activity is driving climate change). Beside a grim photo gallery of malaria victims, the site claims "millions of people around the world suffer the painful and often deadly effects of malaria because one person sounded a false alarm. That person is Rachel Carson." >>

    This is another wedge issue just waiting for the wingnuts, loonies and neanderthal dead-enders to jump on (shame on you Oklahoma for voting in this piece of shite).

    -- totallyblase
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    Thursday, June 28, 2007 08:03 PM
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