April 13, 2004

Millions of people owe their lives to Fred Soper. Why isn't he a hero? Sorry, Zemat. I was going to post this to your earlier thread about DDT but I felt we all owed Fred Soper his own thread. Sorry if I broke any unwritten rules of the community...
posted by stringbean 20 years ago
  • DDTFilter Someone had to say it. :)
  • Fred Soper ran up against the great moral of the late twentieth century--that even the best-intentioned efforts have perverse consequences, that benefits are inevitably offset by risks.
    Fair summary. Awesome article, thanks stringbean.
  • Good stuff, stringbean. Anybody know where I can find those unwritten rules?
  • Here, take my unwritten copy of the book of MoFi rules. Basically, the #1 unwritten rule is: If you think posting something on MeFi would get you arrested by the MeFi self-policing force, think twice before doing it here.
  • #2: No Monkeys? No pop-tarts.