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2026-07-06 01:25 UTC
🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️
⁉️ LEGGY TRIVIA 🌏🕷️
Not as well known, though, is that in Carson's book, she accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation that the pesticide was safe and public officials of accepting those claims.
Would never happen today.
Part 2 of 3
#Monsterdon
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@JoeWynne@mstdn.plus 2026-07-06 01:26
🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ LEGGY TRIVIA 🌏🕷️ US Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson wrote to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and asked, "Why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics?" Benson's conclusion was that Rachel Carson was "probably a Communist" Part 3 of 3 #Monsterdon