DDT

and folks who denigrate rachel carson have their heads uppa they asses

For sure. I read her book when it was relatively new. I was convinced.

When she was called a sham, fraud, and a pussy communist, it was pretty much through agents of the ag chemical industry. She took all kinds of hits that were lies an decception (Fake news and alternative facts that werent widely available until the birth of the internet and its marketing of fake news).