{"id":619,"date":"2014-11-16T09:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2014-11-16T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:28:16","slug":"new-york-city-blog-nov-10-nov-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog Nov. 10 – Nov.. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dow has received EPA permission to manufacture a new herbicide. Whoopee! May I write the lengthy list of instructions in 2 point font? Here are some familiar phrases: When used according to instructions\u2026if you\u2019re elderly, an infant or a farm worker\u2026 beware. This is followed by a list of chemicals with as many letters as a Greek name. If you are like me, you usually don\u2019t read the labels past the caloric content.<\/p>\n

My protagonist, Detective Steve Kulchek, inherited a love of science from his Aunt Bess. Aunt Bess belonged to a gardening book club that met at the Arsenal in Central Park. I too belong to the book club and it\u2019s opened a world to me that I didn\u2019t know. I read Rachel Carson\u2019s Silent Spring only recently. It\u2019s like admitting you never read To Kill a Mockingbird.<\/p>\n

Over fifty years later, Rachel Carson is still controversial. Disagreeing with her thesis that the chemical DDT had harmful effects, is fair. I\u2019m bothered by the shocked attitude as if Carson presumes to question the mighty gods of science. Here\u2019s an example of a capitalist god putting a mere mortal in her place: Steve Forbes, in an article called Mass Murder, writes:The shock is not the misinformation found in a nearly 50-year-old book or the fact that environmental extremists, many of whom seem to be antipeople anyway, cling to it. It\u2019s that governments, foundations and health agencies still pander to these lethal prejudices.<\/p>\n

To quote \u201cBig Yellow Taxi\u201d
\nHey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
\nI don\u2019t care about spots on my apples,
\nLeave me the birds and the bees
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