William Ruckelshaus said his anti-science DDT decision was political

2006, "DDT Rise and Fall of a Miracle," Joseph M. Conlon, Technical Advisor, AMCA (American Mosquito Control Assn.)

p. 39, pdf, "EPA Hearings" . 

"William Ruckelshaus overrules -

Congressional Record, July 24 1972, pp. S11545-46 
Never attended hearings

Never read transcript 

“Decisions by the government involving the use of toxic

substances are political with a small 'p.' The ultimate

judgment remains political." letter to the Allan Grant,

president of the American Farm Bureau Federation

(April 26, 1979)"
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p. 48, pdf, “It is probably fair to say that Rachel Carson single-handedly did more damage to Africa, though admittedly without intending to, than three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade.”Anthony Daniels, MD, District Physician, Obomasho, Nigeria"
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"Let Them Get Malaria"

 Dec. 1981, His Royal Highness Prince Phillip 

p. 42, pdf, "I was in Sri Lanka, where malaria was controlled by DDT. What people didn't realize was that malaria was actually controlling population growth"

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7/31/2003, "Rachel Carson's Ecological Genocide," FrontPageMagazine.com, by Lisa Makson

 
"After seven months of hearings, which produced 9,362 pages of testimony by 125 witnesses, EPA Judge Edmund Sweeney ruled against EDF, Audubon and the Carson coterie, saying that according to the evidence, "DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man...is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man...[and the] use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife." But Ruckelshaus quickly overruled Sweeney and banned DDT on Jan. 1, 1972. His decision had nothing to do with science or concern for the American people -- Ruckelshaus never attended a day of the hearings and admitted that he never read the transcripts. Instead, it was due to Ruckelshaus' ties to EDF and environmentalists. 

"The ultimate judgment [on DDT] remains political," Ruckelshaus wrote to American Farm Bureau Federation President Allan Grant on April 26, 1979. "Decisions by the government involving the use of toxic substances are political with a small 'p.' In the case of pesticides in our country, the power to make this judgment has been delegated to the administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency."

 
Although the ban was appealed, Ruckelshaus' ban on DDT remained intact because Ruckelshaus stacked the deck in the environmentalists' favor -- he appointed himself as the appeal judge. After the appeal was foiled, Ruckelshaus began soliciting donations on behalf of EDF on his personal stationery, writing: "EDF's scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF had won." 

Scientists decried the decision."...

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