tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post6560086796997278944..comments2024-03-18T21:40:02.383-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Miguel did a post on DDTFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-23722598953233263142014-07-23T14:22:57.770-07:002014-07-23T14:22:57.770-07:00Yeah, rachel carson(burning in hell) would have be...Yeah, rachel carson(burning in hell) would have been margret sanger's "woman of the year", if carson had been alive back in the '30's.emdflnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-60469703337540078272014-07-23T09:41:22.304-07:002014-07-23T09:41:22.304-07:00Right before sulfa drugs became popular, there was...Right before sulfa drugs became popular, there was chloramphenicol, a relatively cheap and easy to make antibiotic that easily made typhoid fever its bitch. It's still made today in some backwaters of the world that can't get modern drugs.<br /><br />The reason it's not used is because it's not really safe to use on newborns (although you might be able to surf the limit with controlled dosages), and one in 30,000-40,000 people has a reaction to it called 'aplastic anemia' which is Really Bad Shit.<br /><br />But comparatively speaking, you only have a 1 in 4 chance of surviving typhoid fever untreated. Yeah, I'll take the odds of chloramphenicol maybe killing me over that any day of the week.Toastridernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-32999801275157558862014-07-23T09:13:03.997-07:002014-07-23T09:13:03.997-07:00Great idea. Move to where there isn't any wat...Great idea. Move to where there isn't any water. That's the best place for humans to live.<br />/sarcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-9867674160004854742014-07-22T14:58:58.064-07:002014-07-22T14:58:58.064-07:00even the Anti Malarial drugs are seriously nasty.
...even the Anti Malarial drugs are seriously nasty.<br /><br />There's one that if people are even slightly susceptible to psychoses, it'll give them a psychotic episode.<br /><br />There was a big claim against the British Diplomatic corps by a bunch of people who went deaf after being fed anti malarials at work.<br /><br />I forget which drug it was that an ex of mine was taking in the rain forest in Equador, during the monsoon season. It made her too sick to work and gave her psoriasis, that lasted for about a year, and was really wierd, the patches were symetrical down both sides of her body, same places on each arm and each leg.<br /><br />Even doxycyclin made me burn like hell in the sun, and I'm normally pretty resistant to sun burn.Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-14445960592758202192014-07-22T14:45:27.216-07:002014-07-22T14:45:27.216-07:00The other worst part is that he's just making ...The other worst part is that he's just making up the part about bioaccumulative hazard in humans.<br /><br />DDT doesn't do that, with those effects, in any data we have.<br /><br />Even the "acute" effects or the industrial level "I sprayed DDT on crops for years" effects were ... just mostly not that bad?<br /><br />It might tend to cause a few cancers, but not very strongly, with lots of exposure.<br /><br />It's <i>much less dangerous than malaria</i>.<br />Sigivaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152366541957466049noreply@blogger.com