STARK RAVING MAD

"Remembering Silent Spring and Its Consequences'' by J. Gor-don Edwards at the DDP meeting (audio tapes from (520) 325-2680) details the outright lies by which Rachel Carson and her followers destroyed DDT and concomitantly the lives of hundreds of millions of people in poor countries. The National Academy of Sciences concluded in 1970 that DDT saved 500 million lives before it was banned.

Carson dedicated her book to Albert Schweitzer whom she quoted as saying "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.'' The Schweitzer quote actually referred to his concerns about nuclear war. About DDT, Schweitzer wrote, "How much labor and waste of time these wicked insects do cause us . . . . . . but a ray of hope, in the use of DDT, is now held out to us.''
An estimated 2.4 million children in American public schools are now being given Ritalin, an amphetamine, for the alleged diseases of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (see Access to Energy 23, No. 9, p4 (1996)). Now Science News 150, p 111 (1996) reports that 25% of those children diagnosed as ADHD soon develop the symptoms of manic depression, which requires additional "medication'' and, often, hospitalization.

To acquire a diagnosis of ADHD and thereby a ticket on the National Education Association's joyride of mind-altering drugs, the child must appear to be "inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive.'' In other words, the child must react in an entirely normal way to the inhuman zoo in which he is incarcerated each day by the state. The number of home-schooled children is now about 1.5 million and estimated to be growing at 15% per year. This should help to stop the current epidemic of childhood manic depression.

•	Defendable But Undefended
•	CORPORATIVISM VS NUCLEAR POWER
•	NUCLEAR WASTELANDS?
•	FERTILIZED TREES
•	GLOBAL COOLING
•	AMERICAN CIVIL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
•	ACCESS TO ENERGY COPYRIGHT
•	*STARK RAVING MAD*
•	GOOD READING

Vol. 24, No. 1

Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
Volume: Issues
Issue/No.: Vol. 24, No. 1

Date: September 01, 1996 09:45 AM
Title: Defendable But Undefended