It is time to dismiss calls to ban DDT

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7287.676/b

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Fredric M Steinberg (fmsteinberg@pol.net), chairman of board of directors

American Council on Science and Health, 1995 Broadway Second Floor, New York, NY, 10023-5860, USA

EDITOR—In his commentary in the ethical debate on banning DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloromethane) Liroff hides behind a veneer of reason in arguing to reduce its use carefully, but the final sentence exposes the essence of his priorities.1 He writes that we need “protection from both malaria and DDT,” which effectively equates a plague that has ravaged human populations throughout history2 with the theoretical risks touted by …