How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement - NYTimes.com

Carson was among the first environmentalists of the modern era to be charged with using “soft science” and with cherry-picking studies to suit her ideology. Fifty years later, the attacks on Carson continue. Her opponents hold her responsible for the death of millions of African children from malaria; in Michael Crichton’s novel “State of Fear,” one character says that “banning DDT killed more people than Hitler,” a sentiment Crichton publicly agreed with. The Web site rachelwaswrong.org, which is run by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market advocacy group based in Washington, makes a similar charge: “Today, millions of people around the world suffer the painful and often deadly effects of malaria because one person sounded a false alarm.”

Allergies blamed on global warming: NBC - Video Dailymotion

Seasonal allergies aren’t showing any sign of dissipating as pollen levels remain high across the country. NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports. [Via DB]