Originally Posted By: roadrunner1
DDT did its job, and in the process nearly wiped out many species not intended to be affected.
DDT ended up being one of the most dangerous chemicals ever concocted and used by man with the dangers greatly outweighing any benefits.
But they were SO SURE, though!
They were so built up on their
conceit that they couldn't possibly go wrong! They have pictures of babies and food and veggies and steer, it's good for everything!! The verbiage is the same emotional play used today. "You love you kids, right? Gas them with Agent Orange, babies grow fatter and healthier!" and "Miracle product kills every living thing (except you, of course)!" Why were they so sure? Could it be the conceit? Of course it was the conceit. The verbiage in those old thyme ads for mercury and thorium are not foreign to us, we see the same bamboozling, ultra-sure verbiage used to promote dubious products today. The whole "nature is your enemy, natural order is ineffective, you cannot survive with out Dow, Merck, Pfizer, BASF, Bayer etc" is a real campaign. Science has been so badly corrupted IMO, it's turned to portraying (certain) mankind as infallible, much more nuanced and civilized than the wild savages of yore. That nature is nothing but a coincidence; a stupid coincidence that demands to be subdued and brought to it's knees. That your own consciousness is worthless misguidance with no proof and evidence to back it up. (What) That you shall be impressed with an institution and subsequently contract your intellect to conclusions they derive and promote, because we're advanced and much smarter than all those stupid old people.
Shortly, science has been hijacked for the purpose of breeding conceit- blinding, crippling, self-satisfying conceit which in turn breeds insensible unwavering complicity, which itself is very valuable to propagating politically motivated and corrupt 'science'. Combined with the extremly fanatical and polarizing attitude that "anything less is total rejection of ALL science". Come on, guys.
Of course, I don't believe they "didn't" know. Someone knew. But money and a greed and potentially eugenics combined with abusing science to compel people to insensibly support such is a very real thing.