[afro-nets] Roy Innis on malaria (5)

["Philip Coticelli" <pcoticelli@gmail.com>]

Roy Innis on malaria (5)
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Dear Jeff,

With all due respect, it doesn't seem from your sentiments below that you have taken much time to review dissenting opinions on: climate change (see anything Patrick Michaels at CATO has written or said on the subject(http://www.cato.org/people/michaels.html); the relationship between climate change and malaria (see anything Paul Reiter at the Pasteur Institute has written on the subject, notably this 
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm); 
and the toxic effects of DDT on humans, birds and the environment (see Richard Tren, Director of Africa Fighting Malaria's written testimony for the US Senate Subcommittee on Environment and Public Works here
http://www.fightingmalaria.org/research.php?ID=41 
and Don Roberts of USUHS's testimony for the US Senate Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs here 
http://www.fightingmalaria.org/news.php?ID=640).

You wrote: "My view is that the issue of malaria like AIDS will not be solved with simplistic solutions and particularly those, which come from those who have ideologically based agendas. What we need is an integrated and holistic approach to human health that considers the how human activities associated with modernization have affected the health and the integrity of ecological systems of the planet in a unprecedented way."

It seems from the message below that your own views are dominated by the looming, overarching threat of global warming, which you deem, "the greatest travesty of all generations".  At what point does a dominant theme become an "ideologically based agenda"?

The evidence on DDT has been carefully reviewed for decades.  In spite of the tremendous and entirely unsuccessful effort to prove that it does more harm than good, it has managed to remain exempted for international public health application in the Stockholm Treaty since 1999.  Donors are now playing an unprecedented role in promoting its limited indoor use for malaria control along with bed nets and drugs among recipient governments. That's a fact, not an agenda.

Respectfully,

Philip Coticelli
Africa Fighting Malaria
mailto:pcoticelli@gmail.com