Black Technology Library

Chapter 102 DDT
Zhu Cheng continued to decipher the folder obtained from Google. The more information in this folder was unlocked, the more he felt that the American capitalists had gone too far. This excess was not just aimed at Zhu Cheng's super photolytic enzyme.

He was neither the first nor the last scientist to be persecuted.

The worldwide scam, the diamond marketing case, and the vitamin marketing case are for profit, so the inventor of DDT, the Swiss chemist Paul Müller, died in pain and regret in 1965.It is the most typical example of capitalists persecuting scientists.

During World War II, Switzerland faced food shortages; Russia was plagued by typhus and typhoid; malaria was rampant throughout the world; wars, locust plagues, and plagues made all mankind miserable.

At that time, there were only two kinds of insecticides in the world. One was the insecticide extracted from natural plants, which was slow to take effect and expensive, and it needed insects to swallow it to be effective.

The second type of synthetic arsenic compounds, this type of substance is highly toxic and cheap, but it is extremely harmful to humans and animals.The whole world is in urgent need of a kind of insecticide to kill insects such as mosquitoes and flies to control the raging of malaria.

Muller quit his job and frantically searched for information about pesticides, and conducted detailed research on the information. After more than 300 tests, Mueller was poisoned, but he still insisted on looking for insecticides that do not need to be eaten. Exposure to insecticides that kill insects.

His eyes finally surrendered to the compound of ccl3 group, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane!The benzene ring is poisonous!Trichloroethane is highly fat-soluble, carrying a benzene ring to break through the insect body, and by affecting the sodium ion channel of nerve cells, it kills the transmission route of malaria—mosquitoes and other insects.

DDT has great contact toxicity to various insects such as words, lice, fleas, and sandflies, and it will die when touched!However, under normal use, the toxicity to birds and mammals is negligible!This toxicity can only accumulate to a rather terrifying number!will affect humans.

Muller applied for a patent on DDT!The capitalists seized this opportunity and poured DDT into the market in various forms such as solvents, emulsions, powders, etc.!
In 1942, when the Second World War was at its height, Muller's DDT was very good at disinfecting and controlling the plague.Killing the flies strangles the demon of malaria in its cradle.Crops sprayed with DDT are free from pests.

Everything is developing in a positive direction. People no longer have to worry about not having enough food to eat, and they don't have to worry about losing their lives if a mosquito bites a bag.

In the chaos of war, cholera, spotted rash, and injury diseases were quickly contained, and then the spread of malaria, plague, and encephalitis was controlled all over the world.

In January 1944, Naples, the largest city in southern Italy, was infested with lice, and the infectious disease claimed countless lives.Whether soldiers or civilians lined up to receive the diluted DDT solution, after 1 weeks, the lice were completely wiped out!This is the first time in human history that the epidemic of typhus has been stopped.

In 1948, the sixth year of DDT commercialization, Muller won the Nobel Prize!Awarded for his contributions to high-contact toxicity in arthropods.Muller was promoted to the altar, known as the three major inventions of World War II, the atomic bomb!penicillin! DDT!

He was also the first chemist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

People crazily sang the reputation of Muller, and the affirmation of the Nobel Prize made the whole world fully recognize the efficacy of DDT.Use it without restraint!
To really catch whoever is spraying, many people in malaria outbreak areas surround the epidemic prevention personnel and ask them to point the nozzle at themselves!It seems that DDT is the panacea of ​​the savior, and it can be worshiped wildly for longevity!
And the title of savior, terminator of disease is also worn on Muller's head.

Just at this time, the capitalists behind were finally ready to do something, and they quietly started planning.Prepare to pull Muller from the altar, the purpose is the expensive patent fees, as well as the promotion of new products.

The first is the national bird of the United States, the bald eagle.It symbolizes bravery, strength and freedom, and its shadow can be seen on the national emblem, coins and many patriotic decorations of the United States.

In the United States, except for Alaska, there are about 10 bald eagles living, and they are the most beautiful scenery on the Mississippi River.

And in 1950, the capitalists raised their shotguns and slaughtered them!And all this is done quietly, no one knows.When the American people were horrified to find that the bald eagles were no longer soaring, and there were only 417 pairs of nesting bald eagles left, they asked the president loudly, what happened!
All the answers were unanimously characterized as DDT's recalcitrance and toxicity leading to the death of the bald eagle.

This isn't the end, it's just the beginning.

They characterized DDT as a killer, and they claimed that the poisoned insects were eaten by birds. The DDT sprayed with the leaves fell to the soil, and the residual DDT was as high as 10 billion pounds of DDT in the world!
They add DDT to the food of penguins in Antarctica, and the DDT pollution that slanders Feller is everywhere!

This is still not over!A novel called Silent Spring suddenly became a bestseller!The scene described is that DDT is like a Pandora's box, horribly magnifying the harm of DDT.

Maliciously release various malaria viruses in tropical areas such as Africa, and wantonly create plagues!Curse DDT loudly for malaria to rebound.

DDT has been detected one after another, and it has appeared in the mother's body, the baby's brain, the iceberg in Antarctica, the snow on Mount Everest, etc.!It's everywhere, it's evil, and it's the most "famous" pollutant in history!
It causes birds to lay soft-shelled eggs, affecting hatching and reproduction.

The world is crying!Malaria is on the rise!In media reports, everyone is complaining about the harm of DDT, and Muller has changed from a savior to a person who destroys the world.

The biggest blow to a scientist is the loss of honor, and the Nobel Prize Awarding Committee gave him a heavy blow!They apologize for awarding Müller the Nobel Prize in Physiology for 48 years.

This apology finally made the person who saved the world die in depression!
Now DDT has become a familiar example for teachers, telling students that science is a double-edged sword.After dinner, talking about this insecticide that is popular all over the world, I can only sigh.

DDT production plants have been transformed and disappeared, and this cheap insecticide can no longer be found on the market.

And this is the beginning of a nightmare for developing countries in the tropics!
In 1969, in the anti-DDT trend, the United States withdrew its aid to Sri Lanka’s DDT mosquito control project. Just one year later, the number of malaria patients in Sri Lanka increased to 50. In 1968, the number of malaria infections in Sri Lanka was only 17. .

More than 3 million patients in non-tropical developing countries are suffering from malaria, and 100 million people die every year, most of whom are children. Perhaps the number of 100 million is too abstract, and it can be described with a very specific number. Seven Boeing 7s full of children crash every day.

In 2006, the World Health Organization finally started using DDT again to fight malaria!And Muller has been dead for many years, and he can no longer see the moment when DDT will rebuild its glory.

What are capitalists for? DDT was too cheap, and after paying a lot of patent fees, their margins were too thin.And they found a DDVP that seemed to replace DDT as an insecticide, but DDT blocked their way!
DDVP is commonly known as dichlorvos, which is volatile and highly toxic.Corrosive to iron.Poisonous to humans and animals, highly toxic to fish, highly toxic to bees.

But what does it matter?Just higher profits.The insecticidal mechanism is the same, the factory transformation will not waste too much money, and they can get higher profits!

And Muller died in pain, without even a name sung in the world, and the translations of different countries are different. Even in front of the Royal Academy in Rolle, Switzerland, there is still a sculpture of Muller, with heavy eyes, looking at him The world saved.Are a little sad.

And DDVP is more like a joke, its high toxicity is countless times stronger than DDT's pollution ability!
But DDT could no longer be found!People can only choose the more expensive DDVP!It may be poisoned.For malaria, DDVP is a joke among jokes!Everyone had no choice but to restart the DDT indoor residual spraying technology to prevent DDT pollution.

And indoor residual spraying technology!When Muller developed DDT, he formulated the method of use, and no one has ever heard of it. It is a carnival feast for capitalists and the whole world pays for it.

80% of malaria occurs in the poorest places in the world. They cannot afford more expensive insecticides. DDT is the cheapest and most convenient, but it is banned. Mosquitoes are rampant and malaria is rampant!

You have to choose between death and pollution. People prefer to choose pollution over death. What's more, the correct use of DDT will hardly cause any pollution.

Muller once regarded people as gods and demons!After his death, no one will disturb his scientific research. I hope there will be a laboratory in heaven, so that he can continue his unfinished dream.

Zhu Cheng translated this material perfectly and printed it out. What he said to the winger that the biggest ceiling of science is capital, this statement suddenly has some approval!
Any new drug, new technology, or new invention is labeled as capital. In such a world, under the shadow of white terror, how can ordinary people struggle?
How does a child who dies for capitalist interests cry in hell?Zhu Cheng shook his head vigorously, and burned the paper full of blood and tears to ashes!The dead are dead.

This is just history, and history can only be used to remember!And disturbing an old man who has been buried for 50 years is not in line with Zhu Cheng's aesthetics!He wants to use his method to break through the limit of the scientific research pyramid!

He calmed down and started flipping through Zhao Shishi's plan. This plan is a set of plans about life. During the plan, there are many immature opinions. After the revision, he believes that people will be very satisfied with this software!

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