Reconsidering Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: it was an influential book...:
Update: Scienceblogs’ Tim Lambert has been following a campaign to discredit Carson and her book. More here and at Google. (thx, jim & paul) (link)
Yup, that’s me. In a nutshell, Prof Lambert has unearthed a “divide and conquer” strategy whereby various thinktanks and lobbying groups, including Big Tobacco, are trying to undermine Carson and by extension, the environmental movement, conservationists, organic food producers — in short, anyone who doesn’t worship the almighty dollar. And I couldn’t let Jason get caught in that.