Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Biological Systems and Agricultural Engineering Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering Environmental Engineering Technology and Society |
| Special Topic(s): |
Technology and Society |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): |
John Tierney
Organization: New York Times - NYT |
| Description: | Editorial by New York Times journalist John Tierney, June 5, 2007. The article criticises the science in the influential book - The Silent Spring - by Rachel Carson. Excerpt: "For Rachel Carson admirers, it has not been a silent spring. They’ve been celebrating the centennial of her birthday with paeans to her saintliness. A new generation is reading her book in school — and mostly learning the wrong lesson from it. Skip to next paragraph Viktor Koen TierneyLab Would humans and animals benefit from more pesticides? Join the discussion. Go to TierneyLab » Further Reading "Chemicals and Pests." I.L. Baldwin. Science, Sept. 28, 1962. "Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists and Activists Celebrate the Writings of Rachel Carson." Edited by Peter Matthiessen. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. "Suffering in Silence." Katherine Mangu-Ward. Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2007. "Eco-Freaks." John Berlau. Nelson Current, 2006. "What A Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring." Priscilla Coit Murphy. University of Massachusetts Press, 2005 "What the World Needs Now Is DDT." Tina Rosenberg. New York Times Magazine, April 11, 2004. "Silent Spring at 40." Ronald Bailey. Reason, June 12, 2002. "Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human Diet." National Academy of Sciences, 1996. "A Moment on the Earth." Gregg Easterbrook. Penguin, 1995. "100 things you should know about DDT." J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy. JunkScience.com. If students are going to read “Silent Spring” in science classes, I wish it were paired with another work from that same year, 1962, titled “Chemicals and Pests.” It was a review of “Silent Spring” in the journal Science written by I. L. Baldwin, a professor of agricultural bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin. He didn’t have Ms. Carson’s literary flair, but his science has held up much better." |
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| Keywords: | Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, sustainability, pesticides |
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| Use of Resource: | Contrary opinion piece that could be used to stimulate discussion in ethics or social implications of technology class or module. |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Very Low |
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| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/science/earth/05tier.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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