Excellent Stossel Interview
at FrontPageMag.com. A sample gem:
Economics is not intuitive, I was late to discover. It just takes a little understanding of economics to see how price gouging is helpful at bringing new supplies in. It’s not on the radar screen of the mainstream media that DDT saves lives. We’ve been so trained by our high school and college educations and Rachel Carson to think that DDT is evil. Maybe I read more widely and I watched the footage of Americans having picnics while surrounded by the white smoke when we sprayed vast quantities of DDT. Some people even ran toward the trucks, they were so thrilled to have mosquitoes killed. We did end our malaria problem, but only by spraying vast quantities of DDT did we cause problems. Even then, the only problem was the thinning of the eggshells of the bald eagle. Using tiny amounts would save millions of lives. It’s so disgusting that we don’t do it. We instead waste taxpayer money on bed nets that get holes in them.
Whole article here.