21st Century Science and Technology: The Lies of R
Asserts "Silent Spring" misstates pesticide risks.
Capitalism Magazine: Rachel Carson's Silent S
Article blames Carson's "mythology" about DDT for unnecessary deaths from diseases that DDT was once used to fight.
Center for Global Food Issues: The Cancerous Legac
Article contends that Carson's warnings about the risks of pesticides were wrong.
Competitive Enterprise Institute: Rachel Was Wrong
Brief article on "Silent Spring" argues that "many of the concerns Carson raised were unfounded."
FrontPage Magazine: Rachel Carson's Ecologica
Argues that "Silent Spring" resulted in countless deaths from malaria and other diseases by causing reduced use of DDT.
National Resources Defense Council: The Story of &
The positive influence of "Silent Spring."
National Wildlife: How Rachel Carson Helped Save t
Tells how the coastal brown pelican survived as a result of Carson's success in warning of pesticides' danger to wildlife. From National Wildlife magazine.
New York Times: There's Poison All Around Us
Review of "Silent Spring."
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science a
Carson's warning about the dangers of pesticides and essays on her environmental ethics.
Rachel Carson
Al Gore's introduction to the 1994 edition of "Silent Spring."
Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" and the E
Discusses the controversy spawned by the publication of "Silent Spring."
Reason Online: "Silent Spring" at 40
Finds the legacy of the book "troubling," particularly in regard to carcinogenic effects of pesticides.
Smithsonian Magazine: Sounding the Alarm
Assesses the influence of "Silent Spring" forty years later.