Nature388, pp 699-701, trumpets the funding of a 20-million-dollar project to sequence the DNA of the malaria parasite. This is supposed to be basic research related to developing a vaccine. While basic research and eventual vaccines are nice, what about the children who are dying at a rate of one every 12 seconds right now, while they are being denied access to a proven mosquito suppressor, DDT? According to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, DDT saved 500 million lives before it was banned and suppressed world wide.
The Web site of Environment News Service carried an article on November 27, 1997, by one Claire Gilbert claiming that the exhaust of jet aircraft is causing global warming. No technology is safe from being demonized in the global warming feeding frenzy - a frenzy based entirely on claimed atmospheric temperature changes that do not exist.
The Wall Street Journal, November 26, 1997, p 1, says that the Pentagon has reported that more than 25 nations have or may be developing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and the means to deliver them. The response of the Clinton Administration has been to completely terminate all civil defense programs in the United States and to stall all workable strategic defense development.
We suppose that a completely vulnerable American people is expected to be more amenable to global totalitarianism.
