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Our politics hid an insecticide superior to DDT – now rediscovered

“We set out to study the growth of crystals in a little-known insecticide and uncovered its surprising history, including the impact of World War II on the choice of DDT–and not DFDT–as a primary insecticide in the 20th century,” said Bart Kahr, professor of chemistry at New York University and one of the study’s senior authors…

Kahr and fellow NYU chemistry professor Michael Ward study the…