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Contents 1 About Me 1.1 Accolade 1.2 User Space 2 Useful Links 3 About things that interest me 3.1 DDT and Malaria 3.2 Bednets 3.3 Toxicity: Reviews and Monographs 3.4 Roger Bate and Tobacco 3.5 W.H.O. and DDT 3.6 E.P.A. and DDT 3.7 DDT and Eggshells 3.8 Demanddebate.com 3.9 Bedbugs and DDT 4 Pesticides and asthma 5 EDCs 5.1 PBDEs

[edit] About Me

I am a chemist by training, with a Master's degree and varying amounts of experience in the fields of organometallic, environmental, analytical, and medicinal chemistry. I have worked in academia, industry, and in the non-profit world. Among other things, I am interested in pesticides, environmental contaminants, alternative energy, sustainability, and related issues. I am also interested in conservative movement—particularly its influence on public discourse.

I also am a poor speller, and an even poorer proofreader. My apologies in advance if you have to clean up my mistakes.

I am also a firm believer that what happens on wikipedia should stay on wikipedia, and vice versa. A key strength of the project is its transparency, and when editors conduct their wikipedia business off-wiki (via email, IRC, blogs, forums, wikipediareview, etc.) this transparency is compromised. Just as off wiki-canvassing for meat puppets is strongly discouraged because it disrupts the project, off wiki blogging about on-wikidrama is likely to do more harm to the project than good. It's unbecoming of an editor to stoke wikidrama while on wikipedia, and even even less becoming to fan flames off wiki.

[edit] Accolade

		The E=mc² Barnstar
		I just wanted to say thanks for all your high-quality contributions to science-related articles. -- Ed (Edgar181) 19:27, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User Space

• User:Yilloslime/Sandbox
• User:Yilloslime/Stats
• User:Yilloslime/Questionable Sources

[edit] Useful Links

• WP:CIT
• Pubmed ID→full citation
• WP:WARN
• Article Traffic

[edit] About things that interest me

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• DDT and Breast Cancer cell proliferation
• A case of acute, fatal DDT poisoning?
• As insects grow immune, pesticides stay on the attack, Tom Charlier, Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Nov. 7, 2007. excellent history of OC use in US agriculture.

[edit] DDT and Malaria

• IRS w/ bendiocarb is an effective intervention,^[1] but not surprisingly Roger Bate mis-attributes the success to DDT^[2]

1. ^ SHARP, Brian L; et al (2007). "SEVEN YEARS OF REGIONAL MALARIA CONTROL COLLABORATION—MOZAMBIQUE, SOUTH AFRICA, AND SWAZILAND". Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 76 (1): 42-47. 
2. ^ Bate, Roger. "An Invaluable Insecticide", The American, June 12, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-06-13. 

• Sneak preview of Alma College Consensus Statement on DDT, currently being drafted.
• Nice example of ridiculousness:

  Rachel Carson (after Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and the 1973 Supreme Court through its ruling in Roe v. Wade) is the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century. She and her gullible little army of adherents are responsible for the deaths of millions of Africans from malaria. By demanding and achieving the a ban on the manufacture, distribution and use of DDT, one of the most innocuous chemicals ever invented by mankind, they have caused unimaginable suffering by those in developing nations.

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• Africa: One in Three Malaria Drugs Failing, AllAfrica, 6 May 2008:

  "Malaria surged through Africa in the 1990s, fueled by resistance to chloroquine and other historically effective drugs," said Richard Tren, Director of Africa Fighting Malaria, a non-profit advocacy group.

• Rehabilitating Carson, John Quiggin & Tim Lambert, Prospect, May 2008. Longer version here.
  • and a reply: Roger Bate, "DDT Works," The Prospect Online, May 2008.
• Washington Post article on history of malaria control. April 26, 2008. by David Brown.
• Deltoid: New Book Spreads DDT Ban Myth, Feb 17th, 2008.
• Impact of long-lasting insecticidal-treated nets (LLINs) and artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) measured using surveillance data in four African countries. World Health Organization, Jan. 31, 2008.

• Malaria deaths halved in Rwanda and Ethiopia Better drugs, mosquito nets are the crucial tools, David Brown (Washington Post), SF Chronicle, A-12, Feb. 1, 2008.
• Deltoid Blog post about above.

• Defining and Defeating the Intolerable Burden of Malaria III: Progress and Perspectives special issue of Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 77:(6 Suppl),i-327, 2007.
• Bad Blood, Kim Larsen, OnEarth, Winter 2008.
• South Africa: Questions Over State Drive Against Malaria, All Africa, Dec 12, 2007.

Malaria deaths under reported, casting doubt on the efficacy of DDT: "The downward trend in malaria deaths reported by the health department since 2000 "may well hold true", he said, but the extent of the gains attributable to the introduction of DDT and drugs "may have been overstated""

• Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity - Chapter One, John Stossel, Nov 16, 2007. Stossel vs. USAID:

DR. ANNE PETERSON I would recommend that if those who want to use [DDT for] indoor spraying, that they can and should. And it is definitely less harmful than dying and being exposed to malaria.

STOSSEL But you won't pay for it?

DR. ANNE PETERSON Currently we don't pay for it.

STOSSEL This is pathetic. Millions of people are dying and you, to be politically correct, are saying, "No, we don't want to pay for DDT."

DR. ANNE PETERSON I believe that the strategies we are using are as effective as spraying with DDT. And we are getting them out as far and as fast as we can. So, politically correct or not, I am very confident that what we are doing is the right strategy.

• Edarrell blog post
• Curing Diseases of Poverty, FRANKLIN CUDJOE, WSJ, November 6, 2007.
• Malaria & Children: Progress in intervention Coverage, UNICEF, 2007.
• Is malaria eradication possible?, The Lancet, 370(9597):1459, 2007.

• Deloid blog post about above, Tim Lambert, Oct 26, 2007.

• Insecticde spraying a must against malaria, Naomi Schwarz, VOA News, Oct 29, 2007.
• WHO promotes DDT?, Hans J Overgaard and Michael G Angstreich, The Lancet, 7:632-633, 2007.

• AFM response to above. Oct 16, 2007.

• Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?: The creation of an anti-environmental myth. Aaron Swartz, Extra!, September/October, 2007.
• A New Classification System for the Actions of IRS Chemicals Traditionally Used For Malaria Control, John P. Grieco, Nicole L. Achee, Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap, Wannapa Suwonkerd, Kamal Chauhan, Michael R. Sardelis, Donald R. Roberts, Public Library of Science One, 2(8): e716. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000716

• Press article about this PLoS paper and blog posts on this paper: Tim Lambert Deltoid, Bug Girl, John Quiggin.

• Rachel Carson's Birthday Bashing, Kirsten Weir, Salon.com, June 29, 2007.
• Taking a Bite Out of Vector-Transmitted Infectious Diseases, MS Klempner et al, New England Journal of Medicine, 356(25):2567-2569, June 21, 2001.
• Finding 'Sustainable' Ways to Prevent Parasitic Diseases, Rebecca Kolberg, Science, 264:1859-1861, June 24, 1994.
• Special Issues on Malaria, Journal of the American Medical Association, 297(20):2167-2310, May 23/30, 2007.
• Carson Bashing and the Ill-Informed DDT Campaign, Merrill Goozner, Gooznews.com blog, June 5, 2007.
• DDT ban myth bingo, Tim Lambert, Deltoid Blog, Dec 22, 2005.
• Bedlam in the Blood, Michael Finkel, National Geographic, July 2007. This is a pro DDT, anti-Carson article. Finkel was previously fired from NYT over factual inconsistencies [2] in 2002.
• "The Mosquito Killer", Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, July 2, 2001.
• "The Short-Lived Miracle of DDT", Darwin Stapleton, Amer Heritage Inven & Technol, 15:34-41, 2000.

[edit] Bednets

• UN forsees major drop in malaria, Pretoria News, Oct 26, 2007.
• Distribution of Nets Splits Malaria Workers, REUBEN KYAMA and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., New York Times, Oct 9, 2007.

• Blog Post about above by Merrill Goozner]

[edit] Toxicity: Reviews and Monographs

• Maternal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants Linked to Urologic Conditions in Boys, American Urological Association press release, May 15, 2008.
• Pesticides, Sexual Development, Reproduction, and Fertility: Current Perspective and Future Direction Theo Colborn and Lynn E. Carroll, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 13:1078–1110, 2007. Review focus almost exclusively on DDT/DDE.
• Invited Commentary: Why DDT Matters Now Matthew P. Longnecker, Am. J. Epidem. 162(8):726-728, 2005.
• Health risks and benefits of bis(4-chlorophenyl)-1,1,1-trichloroethane (DDT) WJ Rogan and A Chen, The Lancet 366:763-773, 2005.
• DDE Burden and Breast Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of the Epidemiologic Evidence. Malaquías López-Cervantes, Luisa Torres-Sánchez, Aurelio Tobías, and Lizbeth López-Carrillo, EHP, 112(2): 207-214, 2004. Older review/meta-analysis of DDE-breast cancer association.
• DDT: A case study in Scientific Fraud, J. Gordon Edwards, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, 9(3):83-88, 2003. A very pro-DDT review in a very back-water journal. Forms the basis of much of Milloy's critique of DDT. What's this guy's connection to the LaRouches?
• Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT): Ubiquity, Persistence, and Risks, Vladimir Turusov, Valery Rakitsky, and Lorenzo Tomatis, Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(2):125–128, 2002.
• Toxicological Profile for DDT, DDE, and DDD, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002.
• 972. DDT (addendum) (JMPR Evaluations 2000 Part II Toxicological), Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues, World Health Organization, 2000.
• DDT (General Fact Sheet), National Pesticide Telecommunication Network, 1999.
• DDT (Technical Fact Sheet), National Pesticide Telecommunication Network, 1999.
• Environmental Health Criteria 83: DDT and its derivatives—environmental aspects,World Health Organization, 1989.
• IRIS: p,p'-Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)", Integrated Risk Information System, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1987.
• IRIS: p,p'-Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), Integrated Risk Information System, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1988.
• IRIS: p,p'-Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDD), Integrated Risk Information System, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1988.
• Environmental Health Criteria 9: DDT and its derivatives, World Health Organization, 1979.

[edit] Roger Bate and Tobacco

• Documentation of tobacco links at Deltoid c.f. johnquiggin.com c. May 2008.

2° Sources:

• Bate responds!, Roger Bate, "The Case for DDT," The American, Nov 5, 2007.
• Rabett Run post, Eli Rabett, May 27th, 2007.
• Deltoid Blog post, Tim Lambert, May 30th, 2007.
• Crooked Timber post, John Quiggin, May 30th, 2007.

1° Documents:

• Bate's pitch to PM
• Bate's letter to PM
• Africa Fighting Malaria's original contact page, from Dec 2000, at [archive.org] listing Christopher Klose from the DC based PR company John Adams Associates as the contact. Looks like sometime between May 16 and July 21, 2001, AFM wised up and changed the contact email from cklose@johnadams.com to info@fightingmalaria.org.

AFM related

• Fighting a Disease of Logistics, He Means Business, Jenny Anderson, NY Times", 11.12.07.Profile of Lance Laifer. He seems like a pretty decent guy.

[edit] W.H.O. and DDT

• Stockholm Convention Position Paper on Phasing out DDT Nov 2007.
• Use of DDT in malaria vector control: WHO position statement, Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization, 2007.
• Indoor residual spraying, Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization, 2006.
• Transcript of Neira's remarks at COP3!
• West Africa: New Approach to Malaria Recommended, AllAfrica.com, Oct 24th, 2007.
• WHO Press Release: WHO releases new guidance on insecticide-treated mosquito nets—Recent data from Kenya "ends the debate" about how to deliver the nets, released Aug 16, 2007.
• Press Release describing statements by the Director of the W.H.O. Office on Public Health and Environment Dr Maria Neira made at POPS RC 3 meeting in Dakar in May 2007.
  • Documents Corroborating the above Press Release: this UN report, this IPEN summary, this daily from an observer, and this daily by the same observer.
• Letter to the editor of the Lancet by former WHO Malaria Director Dr. Allan Schapira, Lancet', 2006 Dec 16, 368(9553):2111-3.
• PAN Press Release Sept. 26. 2006.
• W.H.O. Supports Wider Use of DDT vs. Malaria, CELIA W. DUGGER, NYT, Sept 16, 2006.
• WHO Press Release: WHO gives indoor use of DDT a clean bill of health for controlling malaria, released Sept 16, 2006.
• "THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DDT USE UNDER THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION" 2004.

[edit] E.P.A. and DDT

• Ruckelshaus, Sweeney and DDT
• How to tell if someone is wrong about DDT and Rachel Carson
• http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/index.htm
• http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/chemicals/ddt-brief-history-status.htm
• http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/findaids/agentorange/catalog/01183.html
• http://www.epa.gov/history/publications/formative6.htm

[edit] DDT and Eggshells

• Discover Magazine, Nov 2007.]
• Egg Colour Indicates DDT], Matt Kaplan, Nature, Oct 8, 2007, doi:10.1038/news.2007.149
• Can the Bald Eagle Still Soar After It Is Delisted, Eric Stokstad, Science, 316(5832):1689-1690, 2007
• Embryonic Exposure to o,p'-DDT causes Eggshell Thinning and Altered Shell Gland Carbonic Anhydrase Expression in the Domestic Hen, Lena Holm, Alexandra Blomqvist, Ingvar Brandt, Björn Brunström, Yvonne Ridderstråle, and Cecilia Berg. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 25(10):2787–2793, 2006.

In ovo exposure to o,p-DDT causes the resulting hens to have malformed egg gland ducts and lay thinner eggs than controls.

• Endocrine Disrupting Contaminants--Beyond the Dogma, Louis J. Guillette Jr., Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(suppl 1):9-12, 2006.

Recent monograph on endocrine disruption which says: Dramatic declines in the populations of numerous bird species occurred during the decades following the wide-scale use of DDT for insect control in the United States and other countries around the world. Upon examination, DDE, the major metabolite of DDT was associated with altering the physiological process of eggshell formation that subsequently led to eggshell thinning and population declines of numerous avian species, particularly raptors and shorebirds [see review by Lundholm (1997)]. These studies indicate that the supply of calcium to the eggshell gland is not impeded by DDE, but rather this organochlorine contaminant disrupts calcium transport within the eggshell gland (Lundholm 1997). In addition, prostaglandins (PGs) have been implicated in eggshell thinning because DDE disrupts PG synthesis, which reduces bicarbonate transport in the duck shell gland lumen, thereby reducing calcium transport.

Lundholm CE. 1997. DDE-Induced eggshell thinning in birds: Effects of p,p´-DDE on calcium and prostaglandin metabolism of the eggshell gland. Comp Biochem Physiol C Pharmacol Toxicol Endocrinol 118:113-128.

[edit] Demanddebate.com

• Tangential related: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review associate editor Bill Steigerwald interviews Milloy.
• Video from Youtube Tom Borelli "from demanddebate.com" calling in to theyoungturks.com.
• The Competitive Enterprise Institute confirms it—Milloy operates demanddebate.com:

  DemandDebate’s activities were coordinated by author, columnist and professional debunker of junk science, Steven Milloy. “DemandDebate educates and empowers parents and students about bias in environmental education,” said Milloy.

• Milloy put the above news item on his website for July 10, 2007.
• There is no contact info or any other identifying info on DemandDemand's website.
• The website is registered to Steven Milloy according to whois.net
• Live Earth rocks New Jersey with a global movement, Mike Kerwick, The Herald (North Jersey Media Group), July 8th, 2007. Plane with banner for demanddebate.com flew over Live Earth concert in NJ. Seven "supporters" in Tshirts in the parking lot, one identified as Mike Seminara of Mount Vernon, N.Y. A 'Mike Seminara' is also the Project Coordinator at MySoldier.com [3], whose address in Purchase, NY, just 13miles from Mt Vernon. Same guy?
• National Review blog post by CEI's Iain Murray who writes:

  Anyway, the event was also crashed by Bureaucrash and DemandDebate.com, whose boss Steve Milloy writes: DemandDebate debuted at Live Earth (New Jersey) with four aerial banners (each with different messages questioning Gore and global warming), and T-shirts and beach balls bearing the message, "I'm more worried about the intellectual climate." We had two six-man teams distribute T-shirts and beachballs inside and outside the stadium. You can see what the Tees and balls look like at DemandDebate.com. Attached is a photo of one of the aerial banners. Reportedly one of the banners was shown on NBC. One pilot was listening to Al Gore on XM radio and timed a low pass to drown him out. The stunt apparently worked as we got lots of hate e-mail from Gore accolytes who complained that they couldn't hear Al Gore. The beach balls were ubiquitous on TV, and found their way on stage. According to the Bergen Record, Live Earth performer John Mayer spent most of his post-performance press conference lamenting DemandDebate. DemandDebate.com had 7,500 page hits over the weekend. Live Earth bloggers — including The Nation — were livid about DemandDebate.

• Free Enterprise Action Fund Uses Shareholder Advocacy to Demand Debate on Global Warming, Press Release by Steven Milloy/FEAF, April 19,2007. Milloy seems to be pushing Demand Debate as a catchphrase, but this is circumstantial evidence at best for his involvement with the website.

[edit] Bedbugs and DDT

• DDT resistance: once more, with tables and sources - blog post on Culex resistance to DDT.
• http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/221389: "Scientists suspect they re-emerged after the pesticide DDT was phased out several decades ago, but Jacobs believes a shift in home pest control in homes is the more likely reason. Homeowners moved away from spraying for cockroaches to using bait traps, which do not catch bedbugs."

• National Pesticide Information Center says DDT was used for pest control in buildings, but doesn't mention bedbugs specifically. No mention of DDT and bedbugs in CDC or EPA documents, PubMed search turns up only non-US specific papers. WHO docs mention bedbug control as a side benefit of IRS with DDT for malaria control, but applies only to countries with malaria problems.

• The real reds under the bed: they waited 50 years before climbing back in, Chris Ayres, The Times (UK), 8/19/07.
• When bedbugs attack (with slide show), Anita Weier, The Capital Times, 8/16/07.
• Pesky bedbugs putting the bite on Utahns, Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake City Tribune, 8/16/07.
• Raleigh NC Pest Control Co Launches Bedbug Removal Plan Following Surge in Bedbug Infestations, 8/16/07.
• Cases of blood-sucking bedbug soar in S California, Xinhua, 8/13/07.
• Bedbugs tuck into Southland, Leslie Earnest, LA Times, 8/13/07.
• Bed bugs put five out of high-rise, Angela Carter, New Haven Register, 8/12/07.

[edit] Pesticides and asthma

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17119214&ordinalpos=12&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
• http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=19&storycode=12824

[edit] EDCs

• EDCs and Breast Cancer

• Should public health standards for endocrine-disrupting compounds be based upon sixteenth-century dogma or modern endocrinology? Time to Update Environmental Regulations John Peterson Myers, PhD, and Fred S. vom Saal, PhD, J. SF Med Soc., 81(1), 2008.

• Connoly RB, Lutz WA (2004). "Nonmonotonic Dose-Response Relationships: Mechanistic Basis, Kinetic Modeling, and Implications for Risk Assessment". Toxicological Sciences 77: 151-157. 

[edit] PBDEs

• Special Issue of EHP.
• Integrity in Science Newsletter April 7th:

Reps Investigate ACC Influence Representatives John Dingell (D-MI) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are investigating the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) relationship to the International Society for Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (ISRTP), which publishes the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. In 2002, several scientists noted “apparent conflicts of interests, lack of transparency, and absence of editorial independence” in the journal, and suggested that the ACC’s funding of ISRTP may have led to bias in the journal toward studies that promote the chemical industry. The lawmakers’ letter last week to ACC president Jack Gerard also asks for information related to the trade group’s request that the Environmental Protection Agency remove toxicologist Deborah Rice from an agency panel charged with reviewing the toxicity of flame retardants. The letter asks the ACC to explain its request for Rice’s removal and to explain why the group raised no objections to a series of researchers with financial ties to industry who served on previous EPA panels. “Please explain why [these researchers’] circumstances are distinguishable from that of Dr. Deborah Rice,” the letter asks.