Re: Spraying in airplanes etc (was Why do the potentized preps work)

2002-01-18 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Hugh (or anyone else) - what became of the couple who were taking capsules of DDT daily, to prove that it was harmless to humans ? So far as I could tell, they were eccentric, otherwise ordinary citizens, not conspicuously sponsored by any chemical company. Can't remember any details, other tha

Re: Spraying in airplanes etc (was Why do the potentized preps work)

2002-01-18 Thread Hugh Lovel
>Wasn't it DDT that the American mosquito abatement folks would drive >down suburban streets rolling two great clouds of behind their trucks >for we kids to run through in the street, playing moorish >hide-and-seek in a couple of times a week during the summer? Those >were the days, back when we a

Re: Spraying in airplanes etc (was Why do the potentized preps work)

2002-01-17 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Allan - You were lucky that they sprayed after disembarking passengers! Some years ago I was on a flight (can't remember the destination, possibly Jordan) when, immediately after landing, the cabin attendants came through with small aerosol cans and sprayed the passengers. It wasn't at all thorou