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“Rachel Carson has been shouldering a lot of blows lately, especially for a woman who has been dead more than 40 years. Last month marked the 100th birthday of the woman whose 1962 book, ‘Silent Spring,’ is credited with launching the modern environmental movement. While environmentalists paused to celebrate Carson’s legacy, those politically opposed to environmental regulation took the opportunity to engage in some birthday-bashing. They blame Carson and her successors for millions of deaths by malaria — deaths, they say, that could have been prevented if she hadn’t scared the world away from the potent pesticide DDT. … Many factors led to the decreased use of DDT — factors that had nothing to do with Carson. In fact, the decline in DDT use coincided with a drop in malaria rates.” (06/29/07)