[ams6110]

Mentioning mosquitos, we need to keep in mind that (if the conclusion of the study is true) we traded a small--and at the time not understood--increase in autism for a huge decrease in mosquito-related disease. Millions of people who would have died in childhood are alive thanks to DDT and other insecticides.

[gascan]

Yes, and at the time it might have been a good tradeoff- but today we can do better, at least outside the malaria belt.