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Edwin Diamond
Diamond was a science writer for Newseek magazine and apparently a research assistant for Rachel Carson for a short time. He reviewed Silent Spring in Saturday Evening Post. (He later became a senior editor at Newsweek and, much later, a widely recognized critic on the media.)
Be sure to review Chaps. 1-3,7-8,14 in Silent Spring. You should be able to comment on Carson's credibility and motives, and the benefits of pesticides.
Bibliography
Graham, Since Silent Spring
Diamond, E. 1963. "The Myth of the Pesticide Menace." Saturday Evening Post (Sept. 28): 16-17.
review in Time.
Consider also the books by Lavine & Zimmerman, Leary & Fishbein, and Whorton about early DDT use.
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