The Dead Children Can't Speak

clipped from www.foxnews.com Still, anti-DDT activism led to hearings before an EPA administrative law judge during 1971-72. After seven months and 9,000 pages of testimony, the judge concluded "DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man... DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man... The use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife." Despite the exculpatory ruling, then-EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus banned DDT anyway. Ruckelshaus never attended the hearings, didn�t read the transcript and refused to release the materials used to make his decision. This wasn�t surprising given Ruckleshaus� bias. Ruckleshaus belonged to the Environmental Defense Fund, an activist group formed by the National Audubon Society to lobby for its agenda without endangering the Society�s tax-exempt status. They built their "success" on junk science and the bodies of third world children.