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Why Is Rachel Carson Misleading

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I enjoyed todays topic in class today. Rachel Carson was a very famous writer. Although she had a degree in Zoology, she was no chemist. Opponents of Silent Spring Attacked Rachel Carson personally. Her opponents felt like she should have stayed out the issue. They accused her of being unscientific, disloyal, hysterical and radical. The attacks toward Rachel Carson were misleading because although Carson wasn’t educated with the scientific composition of the pesticide themselves, she still went out on her own to inform the public personally, about the dangers of the chemical that was going on towards human and

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