This polemic ignores the fact that Rachel Carson is reviled today by scientists for her role in ending the use of DDT. The UN estimates that 800,000 children alone die of malaria each year, children who would be protected by use of DDT. Ecological and medical research strongly supports this conclusion. The picture presented of the Bush administration’s record on science is equally ill-informed. Knowledgeable people consider this administration to have one of the best records on science policy of any in several decades, perhaps back to the late 1940s-early 1950s. There is an outstanding science advisor, who has served longer than any previous holder of that position. The leadership in the key science agencies is outstanding and they have made major, and long-overdue, new fundamental policies for these agencies.