Maybe it&#x27;s time to deploy some DDT...<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;health_and_science&#x2F;science&#x2F;2012&#x2F;09&#x2F;silent_spring_turns_50_biographer_william_souder_clears_up_myths_about_rachel_carson_.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;health_and_science&#x2F;science&#x2F;201...</a><p><i>Rachel Carson never called for the banning of pesticides. She made this clear in every public pronouncement, repeated it in an hourlong television documentary about Silent Spring, and even testified to that effect before the U.S. Senate. Carson never denied that there were beneficial uses of pesticides, notably in combatting human diseases transmitted by insects, where she said they had not only been proven effective but were morally “necessary.”</i>