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» Capitalism Magazine: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Environmentalist Mythology Killing Us Softly
   Article blames Carson's "mythology" about DDT for unnecessary deaths from diseases that DDT was once used to fight.
   http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1796

» Competitive Enterprise Institute: Rachel Was Wrong
   Brief article on "Silent Spring" argues that "many of the concerns Carson raised were unfounded."
   http://www.cei.org/gencon/005,01338.cfm

» FrontPage Magazine: Rachel Carson's Ecological Genocide
   Argues that "Silent Spring" resulted in countless deaths from malaria and other diseases by causing reduced use of DDT.
   http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9169

» Frontline: Silent Spring Revisited
   Discusses how supporters and critics assess Carson's influential book. From the Web site of the PBS TV series Frontline.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nature/disrupt/sspring.html

» National Resources Defense Council: The Story of "Silent Spring"
   The positive influence of "Silent Spring."
   http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp

» National Wildlife: How Rachel Carson Helped Save the Brown Pelican
   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.
   http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=689&issueId=61

» New York Times: There's Poison All Around Us Now
   Review of "Silent Spring."
   http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/reviews/carson-spring.html

» Rachel Carson
   Al Gore's introduction to the 1994 edition of "Silent Spring."
   http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/24hours/carson.html

» Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" and the Environmental Movement
   Discusses the controversy spawned by the publication of "Silent Spring."
   http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/history/lecture31/r_31-3.html

» Reason Online: "Silent Spring" at 40
   Finds the legacy of the book "troubling," particularly in regard to carcinogenic effects of pesticides.
   http://reason.com/rb/rb061202.shtml