My aunt got caught in TCDD during the Vietnam war and the effects are horrible, her children are all mutated and diseases ridden, most of them didn't made it after 1-2 months of birth. You can see the effects in details at Từ Dũ hospital where they keep jars of mutated unborns. I just hope that humanity will never use such things again. 😥
@@LegoGoblinI just googled "tu du hospital" and the Getty link has some really horrific stuff. I have a strong stomach and I had to close it after just a couple of pictures. It's definitely not for everyone.
I'm old enough to have had dealings with every substance you mention, and it seems to me that a list of noxious pesticides isn't complete without Chlordane. Back in the day, it was the weapon of choice of UK greenkeepers to get rid of casting earthworms, of all things. It certainly did the job, but it also did for pretty much every other soil-dwelling organism, as well as a host of non-target animals and birds. Although its potential for groundwater pollution was mercifully limited by its strong adsorption to soil particles, it persisted for up to 20 years in some soil types. Nasty stuff.
i myself am also a greenkeeper however not as experienced , heard about Chlordane , Very bad pesticide. ALso heard of another product named 'Cyren' which was banned (in the UK at least) years back.
Lindane was used heavily in wooden constructions in the 70s and 80s in Germany. Most attics and prefab houses dating from the time are laden with this crap along with other chemicals. In some parts of Germany the building codes from that times explicitly required wood constructions to be treated with pesticides and anti-fungal solutions.
Lindane isn’t that bad compared to most of these other things. It’s actually still used as a pharmaceutical treatment for lice and scabies, although it isn’t the first-line treatment.
@@eaglevision993If you build with wood you build with food. So since ancient times there is some sort of treatment to keep critters from munching on your roof - because that's unhealthy too when it comes down
Lindane was used for kill lice very fast, i had when was a kid (like the rest of my classroom XD) two times of that shampoo and bye bye lice. The bottle was little and explicitly said poison everywere, so i knew who was a big thing and try to mantain my eyes and mouth very closed when mom washed my hair. Good thing who very soon other alternatives were invented, actually more soft and less dangerous.
My neighbor used to use paraquat at his work, they had loads of it after it was banned here in the UK. He told me a story of when the farmer's dog drank out of a puddle that was contaminated with paraquat. You could tell as it had a bright dye in it to prevent accidental poisoning. They found it a few minutes later behind some hay bales dead. He was also poisoned by it. He didn't want to go to the hospital as his boss would have been arrested for using a banned pesticide. He said he felt like he was dying for about a week and then recovered. He was extremely lucky.
@@H.EL-Othemany Well either way he would have died regardless as there is no antidote (hence why he was lucky). Or he would have survived and been out of a job and potentially in jail himself.
TCDD is not a pesticide or herbicide, but a contaminant in making the "agent orange" composition (which is a one-to-one mix of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, as shown at 10:59).
8:34. There are various types of strychnine. One particularly noteworthy example comes from the strychnos toxiphera tree, otherwise known as “urare” or “curare” tree. It can kill in about 15 minutes and it’s used by a few native tribes of the Amazon for hunting with their blowguns
When I was a kid there used to be trucks that would drive down the streets, spraying DDT all over to kill the mosquitoes. No one thought much about it at the time...
Agent Orange was supposed to be mixture of 2,4-D and related chemical 2,4,5-T, but due to sloppy manufacturing it contained TCDD accidentally (it is not even herbicide).
when i was a kid the farmers was spraying their crops with pesiticides during the night because they was illegal to use. At least one of those farmers went qrazy after decades of exposure to those pesticides.
Still got a few of those laying in my grandfather's shed. Back then you could purchase them no prob, but nowadays you need a license for it and your purchase is registered. I myself used to buy herbicide to mix it with sugar and make bombs 25y ago.
"So how do we know this shit is safe to put on our edible vegetables?" "Well, we killed a baby monkey with it and based on the monkey's weight we found it would probably take a lot of it to kill a person." "Oh..."
I'm going to school to become gardener/farmer, and basically teacher just ditched one class totally just to terrify everyone with agent orange. It became a question that is this line of job profitable if you don't use these brutal chemicals to beat the nature under your control.
I knew a guy who was in the Vietnam war and got prostate cancer as a result from agent orange. It was basically only indirect exposure but he still has to suffer the effects of it years later.
If acute toxicity (LD50) of these chemicals was the only problem with them, they would all be perfectly safe. But acute toxicity is only a part of the story.
Scary stuff. Good report. And also, many of these chemicals end up infiltrating underground waters, which makes it even more dangerous and destructive!
Paraquat is probably still legal due to its use to destroy marijuana crops. The government denies that they still use it for this, but why else is it still in use and manufactured here?
We have a mosquito control department in our township. I can remember when they would use a Jeep to spray the neighborhood with a chemical fog to keep mosquitos under control. This was back in the late 1970's early 1980's.
Glyphosate may have a high LD50 but it is persistent and causes myriad health problems that many would consider worse than death. It is present in most American's urine
@@MRSLAVlead arsenate is the worst for example it can stay soil for millions if not billions of years because lead and arsenic are pure elements so extremely hard to destroy dissolve and react to other chemicals.
@@Youdontknowmeson1324 In the US some states have arsenic in ground water in various locations. It really sucks that those in power allowed our earth to be poisoned.
@@rixille people sprayed it in apple orchards lead arsenate was once used it stays in the soil because there metals. Pure elements and metals can never break down so it can stay for a long time. There has been people who lived in Central America near a volcano where arsenic is in water in soil and in the air they built arsenic resistance but it takes a long time. Lead is probably can be more toxic it can damage your brain cells and make you dumb.
Never heard of TCDD But I can say for fact that most of the list is still in use in my country in slight variations There are horror stories regarding the use of those pesticides, for example “temik” was suppose to be used only in very specific type of farming and follow some very strict rules due to its toxicity. But it’s often used by “smart” farmers for its magic capabilities - they use it on vegetables that store the toxics instead of removing them - for example watermelons - And it happened that those watermelon appeared on the market later on and cause havoc
One of the many problems with DDT is not the acute LD 50. But rather, the effects of cronic exposure to small amounts. On general toxicity, there is also the issue of route of entry. Skin exposure, contamination of food, and, of course, ingestion of the pure substance orally. Not that that latter measure is all that useful.
I "worked in ag" Needless to say, i got pretty familiar with many chemicals listed here. Unfortunately, here in the U.S. we're dumb enough to keep a lot of these legal despite growing bodies of evidence proving their harmfulness to humans. Money is power, I guess. SMH
It's interesting that the LD50 of glyphosate is exactly on the cutoff of where the signal word goes from CAUTION to WARNING. I wonder how much Monsanto paid to make sure their product was in the CAUTION range.
My dad was exposed to Agent Orange. He now has little control over his legs and needs 24/7 assistance. Fortunately, there's a veteran's home only an hour and a half from here.
The companies who made that stuff should pay up to the victims of their chemical and for a cleanup operation wherever the chemical persists. That's real accountability.
My Grandpa worked as a CIA Radio Operator in the Vietnam war and developed type 2 diabetes from working near an area sprayed with Agent Orange, and hed be lucky by comparison to many Vietnamese people directly exposed to it.
I had two uncles painted with agent orange during the war. Both survived till just 10 years ago. Yes, i mean painted and soaked. Made leg braces for both so they could walk.
i try to use pyrethrins when using something for pest control IF absolutely needed, its a natural pesticide the flower chrysanthemum makes and i find anything thats nature made seems to work best.
@@jfbeam Ummm, did you pay attention to my comment or did you just think what you'd type sounded cool in you head ? i wasn't even talking about human lethality or even about a pesticide that was _mentioned_ on this list. I'm aware that many poisons, and medicines come from plants, duh. maybe do some research before trying to drop a comment in the attempts to make someone look stupid.
Acute LD50 isn't the best way to measure pesticide toxicity to humans. Most people are not worried they will have a better than not chance to survive using the stuff. It is about cumulative effects of exposure to low doses, or the chance to be seriously injured or killed by a moderate dose still nowhere near the LD50, as well as how controllable and easy to avoid this pesticide is.
The Americans got the idea to use Agent Orange from the British during the Malaysian emergency to counter roadside ambushes on jungle roads. Just a reminder to Brits who are about to call Americans wankers for using the stuff in Vietnam.
I really don't understand why we put so much effort into creating all these chemicals that act on biological creatures. I get we have to deal with crop control pests/weeds but do we really need to spread all these chemicals into our plants, home's, eventually into our bodies and environment?
11:00 TCDD was never consciously added to Agent Orange, it was a contaminant which existed in minute quantities in Agent Orange because of the imperfect manufacturing process.
I'm a technician and I'm responsible for sales of inseticides, pesticides and fungicides at the shop i work. Paraquat was banned in Brazil some time ago.
I'm 45yrs old. As a kid in the countryside, UK. I often used Paraquat, branded Gramoxone. The plants one would treat with the Gramoxone, would have their foliage turn black, ironically the more sunlight available the quicker the process. One can quite literally watch as, the plant is destoyed real-time for one to see. I also had an Uncle, that poisoned himself deliberately by, drinking similar bad chemical.
lindane is still used quite commonly in some medication in unbanned countries. I have seen dozens of lindane containing maggoticidal wound creams at vets.
As per the RAND Corporation's own archive, the use of "Agent Orange" wasn't limited to destorying the Vietnamese's resistance jungle cover - about 42% of "Operation Ranch Hand" missions specifically targeted southern Vietnam's rural food production ability - which makes the US's assault on south east Asia no less genocidal than "Operation Barbarossa".
If genocide was really the task, the US very simply could have nuked Vietnam off the map. Also, cover goes both ways. Dense forests where only an issue for bombing and LZ's, but the Vietnamese can't see through it any better than the Americans could.
@@Ripa-Moramee No, the US couldn't simply have "nuked Vietnam off the map" - that would have destroyed the US's credibility until the end of time, turned the US into a hermit state and led to the end of US hegemony outside it's own borders - and that would just be the start of the US's problems.
@@kenneth9874 It does. Flooding has been used as a weapon in war plenty of times - the worst perpetrator I can think of was the US's boy Chiang Kai-shek, who flooded the Yellow River to hamper the Japanese - 30,000 to 80,000 Chinese civilians died just in the initial flooding. No surprises then that so many Chinese viewed Mao as a l"lesser evil."
I was a soldier in UK. Before deployed to jungle our clothes was sent to be impregnated with DDT, we also got bottles to apply on skin. It was so strong when applied, the label on a can drink I took with me came off onto my hand. The can was just silver 😬. Terrible stuff.
hey Mr Slav, I think doing a video on the Halifax Explosion would be a great idea! It was the biggest accidental manmade explosion which left a city in ruins. I highly suggest you look into it!
My aunt got caught in TCDD during the Vietnam war and the effects are horrible, her children are all mutated and diseases ridden, most of them didn't made it after 1-2 months of birth. You can see the effects in details at Từ Dũ hospital where they keep jars of mutated unborns. I just hope that humanity will never use such things again. 😥
im sorry for what happened
hope you feel better
Terrible stuff
they keep jars of them!?
@@LegoGoblinI just googled "tu du hospital" and the Getty link has some really horrific stuff. I have a strong stomach and I had to close it after just a couple of pictures. It's definitely not for everyone.
@@LegoGoblinyes, they put mutated dead babies in jars for people to see how TCDD affects unborns, is there any surprise?
I find it very respectful how at the end he made no jokes. He got 100% serious
Thumbnail:
We have Cr1tikal who didn't say "That's about it, cya"
Then we have Mr. Slav who didn't joked in the end.
We know the signs of seriousness
He still did in the thumbnail with the body spray comment LOL
I wondered for a second if there was some seriousness about it, like there was some toxic in body spray 😝
I'm old enough to have had dealings with every substance you mention, and it seems to me that a list of noxious pesticides isn't complete without Chlordane. Back in the day, it was the weapon of choice of UK greenkeepers to get rid of casting earthworms, of all things. It certainly did the job, but it also did for pretty much every other soil-dwelling organism, as well as a host of non-target animals and birds. Although its potential for groundwater pollution was mercifully limited by its strong adsorption to soil particles, it persisted for up to 20 years in some soil types. Nasty stuff.
i myself am also a greenkeeper however not as experienced , heard about Chlordane , Very bad pesticide.
ALso heard of another product named 'Cyren' which was banned (in the UK at least) years back.
I too remember chlordane and heptachlor. They were sprayed into homes in the southern states in order to kill termites. Humanity is killing itself.
Lindane was used heavily in wooden constructions in the 70s and 80s in Germany. Most attics and prefab houses dating from the time are laden with this crap along with other chemicals.
In some parts of Germany the building codes from that times explicitly required wood constructions to be treated with pesticides and anti-fungal solutions.
Lindane isn’t that bad compared to most of these other things. It’s actually still used as a pharmaceutical treatment for lice and scabies, although it isn’t the first-line treatment.
Like how in North America they used to pressure treat wood with arsenic compounds.
@@dnb5661 We did that too.
@@eaglevision993If you build with wood you build with food. So since ancient times there is some sort of treatment to keep critters from munching on your roof - because that's unhealthy too when it comes down
Lindane was used for kill lice very fast, i had when was a kid (like the rest of my classroom XD) two times of that shampoo and bye bye lice. The bottle was little and explicitly said poison everywere, so i knew who was a big thing and try to mantain my eyes and mouth very closed when mom washed my hair.
Good thing who very soon other alternatives were invented, actually more soft and less dangerous.
My brother who was in Nam 67-68, remembers the oily substance all over him.
He brought home some other nasty ailments too. His suffering is terrible
Now imagine millions of people just like him.
My neighbor used to use paraquat at his work, they had loads of it after it was banned here in the UK. He told me a story of when the farmer's dog drank out of a puddle that was contaminated with paraquat. You could tell as it had a bright dye in it to prevent accidental poisoning. They found it a few minutes later behind some hay bales dead. He was also poisoned by it. He didn't want to go to the hospital as his boss would have been arrested for using a banned pesticide. He said he felt like he was dying for about a week and then recovered. He was extremely lucky.
He didn't want to go to the hospital for the sake of his boss? Lol he doesn't deserve to live to be honest..
@@H.EL-Othemany Well either way he would have died regardless as there is no antidote (hence why he was lucky). Or he would have survived and been out of a job and potentially in jail himself.
U know TCDD IS not a joke, even Mr. Slav didn't quote a joke at the end of video
It kill form plants to fake plants :skull:
Thanks Mr Slav for coming back with your signature series! I love this top ever videos.. Your channel is one of the greatest channels ever on YT.
Lol there are at least 15 other channels just as good as mr slav. Mr.slav aint the only one😂
@@dewaldsteyn1306he’s MY only one…
@@dewaldsteyn1306 how about you list some
@@dewaldsteyn1306 I said one of the greatest in this comparison niche, not the greatest.
@@dewaldsteyn1306 15 other channels, but it Slav's one, far better than them.
Another top x ever? I hope you dont feel forced to make these. I love the variety in your content!
Just felt like some of you guys wanted it
@@MRSLAV YES MAKE MORE 😛
TCDD is not a pesticide or herbicide, but a contaminant in making the "agent orange" composition (which is a one-to-one mix of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, as shown at 10:59).
8:34. There are various types of strychnine. One particularly noteworthy example comes from the strychnos toxiphera tree, otherwise known as “urare” or “curare” tree. It can kill in about 15 minutes and it’s used by a few native tribes of the Amazon for hunting with their blowguns
You have no idea Mr Slav how much joy you bring to people & myself when you upload. Much love my man ❤️
He return his roots, the 'top ____' videos man
When I was a kid there used to be trucks that would drive down the streets, spraying DDT all over to kill the mosquitoes. No one thought much about it at the time...
Agent Orange was supposed to be mixture of 2,4-D and related chemical 2,4,5-T, but due to sloppy manufacturing it contained TCDD accidentally (it is not even herbicide).
I could not stop laughing from your comment "Hell if I have such thing living in me, spray me with all pesticides at once" 😂😂😂 @ 3:35
BABE WAKE UP!! Mr Slav just posted!!!
Edit: Mom im famous!!!
MUM! DAD! GET IN HERE! MUM!
For god shake i know he did but you dont have to scream in the comments like a fucking lunatic eaten alive by a lion for god shake.
Omg me Too, I really like this Chanel
YES 🎉
Original!!! 😂😂😂😂
Scary what humans can invent and use wrong..
You are absolutely correct. Einstein said: a mouse would never create a mousetrap, but only a human would create a nuclear bomb.
I love his narrations. I’m
So glad he switched to this vs the text read thing.
Sad to say no company exists without gain from many deaths..
We're in an era of learning how to kill instead of learning how to live together..
when i was a kid the farmers was spraying their crops with pesiticides during the night because they was illegal to use.
At least one of those farmers went qrazy after decades of exposure to those pesticides.
Mr slav your videos got even better with your narration. Been watching you for years...keep it up
Still got a few of those laying in my grandfather's shed. Back then you could purchase them no prob, but nowadays you need a license for it and your purchase is registered.
I myself used to buy herbicide to mix it with sugar and make bombs 25y ago.
"So how do we know this shit is safe to put on our edible vegetables?"
"Well, we killed a baby monkey with it and based on the monkey's weight we found it would probably take a lot of it to kill a person."
"Oh..."
I was waiting for a “Still not as toxic as CoD chat rooms” or similar sentence at the end 😀
2:23 Imagine putting herbicides in a water gun, the damage it would do to someone would be insane
We sure do love ingesting our poisons in the US!
🚬🥃🍺🇺🇸
at least you admit it.
In 🇺🇸, ☠️🧪🟰🤤
I'm going to school to become gardener/farmer, and basically teacher just ditched one class totally just to terrify everyone with agent orange.
It became a question that is this line of job profitable if you don't use these brutal chemicals to beat the nature under your control.
In Greece, parathion is quite notorious as the choice of some nationally known killers (serial and single time) that poisoned their victims
I knew a guy who was in the Vietnam war and got prostate cancer as a result from agent orange. It was basically only indirect exposure but he still has to suffer the effects of it years later.
Agent Orange was also used in Ontario, Canada to clear vegetation for power lines.
2,4-D is a broadleaf herbicide, it doesn't harm grass.
Top things ever series has returned
If acute toxicity (LD50) of these chemicals was the only problem with them, they would all be perfectly safe. But acute toxicity is only a part of the story.
Scary stuff. Good report. And also, many of these chemicals end up infiltrating underground waters, which makes it even more dangerous and destructive!
Paraquat is probably still legal due to its use to destroy marijuana crops. The government denies that they still use it for this, but why else is it still in use and manufactured here?
We have a mosquito control department in our township. I can remember when they would use a Jeep to spray the neighborhood with a chemical fog to keep mosquitos under control. This was back in the late 1970's early 1980's.
technically helped eliminate malaria even if it is such a terrible chemical ...
Glyphosate may have a high LD50 but it is persistent and causes myriad health problems that many would consider worse than death. It is present in most American's urine
True, some of pesticides while being a lot lower can do accumulative damage.
@@MRSLAVlead arsenate is the worst for example it can stay soil for millions if not billions of years because lead and arsenic are pure elements so extremely hard to destroy dissolve and react to other chemicals.
@@Youdontknowmeson1324 In the US some states have arsenic in ground water in various locations. It really sucks that those in power allowed our earth to be poisoned.
@@rixille people sprayed it in apple orchards lead arsenate was once used it stays in the soil because there metals. Pure elements and metals can never break down so it can stay for a long time. There has been people who lived in Central America near a volcano where arsenic is in water in soil and in the air they built arsenic resistance but it takes a long time. Lead is probably can be more toxic it can damage your brain cells and make you dumb.
@@rixille only way around it is revenge sadly
Never heard of TCDD
But I can say for fact that most of the list is still in use in my country in slight variations
There are horror stories regarding the use of those pesticides, for example “temik” was suppose to be used only in very specific type of farming and follow some very strict rules due to its toxicity.
But it’s often used by “smart” farmers for its magic capabilities - they use it on vegetables that store the toxics instead of removing them - for example watermelons -
And it happened that those watermelon appeared on the market later on and cause havoc
TCDD = Dioxin.
One of the many problems with DDT is not the acute LD 50. But rather, the effects of cronic exposure to small amounts. On general toxicity, there is also the issue of route of entry. Skin exposure, contamination of food, and, of course, ingestion of the pure substance orally. Not that that latter measure is all that useful.
I "worked in ag" Needless to say, i got pretty familiar with many chemicals listed here. Unfortunately, here in the U.S. we're dumb enough to keep a lot of these legal despite growing bodies of evidence proving their harmfulness to humans. Money is power, I guess. SMH
I came here for methomyl and i'm somewhat dissapointed it wasn't on the list. it wrote its own bloody history.
Sitting on toliet after eating "great value" spicy chicken nuggets. Intestine hurt but mr slav posted
It's interesting that the LD50 of glyphosate is exactly on the cutoff of where the signal word goes from CAUTION to WARNING. I wonder how much Monsanto paid to make sure their product was in the CAUTION range.
My dad was exposed to Agent Orange. He now has little control over his legs and needs 24/7 assistance. Fortunately, there's a veteran's home only an hour and a half from here.
The companies who made that stuff should pay up to the victims of their chemical and for a cleanup operation wherever the chemical persists. That's real accountability.
My Grandpa worked as a CIA Radio Operator in the Vietnam war and developed type 2 diabetes from working near an area sprayed with Agent Orange, and hed be lucky by comparison to many Vietnamese people directly exposed to it.
I regret working for a herbicide company and making that crap…
It felt harder to breathe for me when i was watching this
Your voice is such a bonus to these videos
Wait, you are now gonna continue these “Top Ever” videos? LETS GOOOO
My man out here speaking facts with the body spray in the gym
It would have been nice if you had shown the chemical structures parallel to the names.
I can imagine the governments.... "Don't worry, it's only harmful if you inhale it" public announcements. 🤔😉
I love how you can see around 7:45 how a chemist used his mouth to fill his pipette. Different times lol.
My elderly aunt still has DDT at her house and uses it sparingly even though we have told her how toxic it is.
I remember the town spraying for mosquitoes and remember the smell.
When I was young, round up gave me leukemia… it’s weird that this was recommended to me.
Or something similar… I know my mom said it was round up tho.
2:25 *so that’s why the monkeys are scared of those DDTs*
Still not as toxic as my last relationship.
THE OLD FORMAT IS BACK
Mr Slav thank you for the new video, you're one of the few reasons I'm still visiting this godforsaken website
For me, chicken and duck are the best pesticide/herbicide.
That's what happens when we're too curious some or most of the time
I had two uncles painted with agent orange during the war. Both survived till just 10 years ago. Yes, i mean painted and soaked. Made leg braces for both so they could walk.
no joke at the end this time, respect there.
Nice to come back with a classic style, love it
i try to use pyrethrins when using something for pest control IF absolutely needed, its a natural pesticide the flower chrysanthemum makes and i find anything thats nature made seems to work best.
You did pay attention to strychnine coming from plants? Just because it's "all natural" doesn't mean it won't absolutely kill you.
@@jfbeam Ummm, did you pay attention to my comment or did you just think what you'd type sounded cool in you head ?
i wasn't even talking about human lethality or even about a pesticide that was _mentioned_ on this list. I'm aware that many poisons, and medicines come from plants, duh. maybe do some research before trying to drop a comment in the attempts to make someone look stupid.
Acute LD50 isn't the best way to measure pesticide toxicity to humans. Most people are not worried they will have a better than not chance to survive using the stuff. It is about cumulative effects of exposure to low doses, or the chance to be seriously injured or killed by a moderate dose still nowhere near the LD50, as well as how controllable and easy to avoid this pesticide is.
Still not as toxic as Twitter
Zyklon B came to mind immediately
Yes, I agree
if ever have rats in your garden just use mustard gas it gets rid of rats really quickly
I assume that you mean mustard gas
Wow, this video format again. Sweet!
The only one I’ve used on this list is Glyphosate, but thats with full protection and in small amounts
The Americans got the idea to use Agent Orange from the British during the Malaysian emergency to counter roadside ambushes on jungle roads. Just a reminder to Brits who are about to call Americans wankers for using the stuff in Vietnam.
I really don't understand why we put so much effort into creating all these chemicals that act on biological creatures. I get we have to deal with crop control pests/weeds but do we really need to spread all these chemicals into our plants, home's, eventually into our bodies and environment?
TCDD. Still not as toxic as my mother-in-law :)
realy great english subbtitles, youyr great keep it up
11:00 TCDD was never consciously added to Agent Orange, it was a contaminant which existed in minute quantities in Agent Orange because of the imperfect manufacturing process.
I'm a technician and I'm responsible for sales of inseticides, pesticides and fungicides at the shop i work. Paraquat was banned in Brazil some time ago.
When we have plants growing out of concrete ground, we just spill some phosphoric acid on it. How dangerous is it?
1:46 wow rainbow😊
Video Idea: Top Sourest Things Ever
There was a Popeye cartoon (“How Green Was My Spinach”) which jokingly called DDT “Do Die Twice”.
Still not as poisonous as not drinking vodka
I'm 45yrs old. As a kid in the countryside, UK. I often used Paraquat, branded Gramoxone. The plants one would treat with the Gramoxone, would have their foliage turn black, ironically the more sunlight available the quicker the process. One can quite literally watch as, the plant is destoyed real-time for one to see. I also had an Uncle, that poisoned himself deliberately by, drinking similar bad chemical.
Quite heavy video, but mr. Slav's accent is improving :O
lindane is still used quite commonly in some medication in unbanned countries. I have seen dozens of lindane containing maggoticidal wound creams at vets.
Starts right out calling a herbicide an insecticide, I'm sure the science only goes downhill from there.
Great MR SLAVE video as always !
Rode bikes behind the trucks spraying for mosquitoes in the 1960s.
why the thumbnail is so relatable 💀
As per the RAND Corporation's own archive, the use of "Agent Orange" wasn't limited to destorying the Vietnamese's resistance jungle cover - about 42% of "Operation Ranch Hand" missions specifically targeted southern Vietnam's rural food production ability - which makes the US's assault on south east Asia no less genocidal than "Operation Barbarossa".
If genocide was really the task, the US very simply could have nuked Vietnam off the map. Also, cover goes both ways. Dense forests where only an issue for bombing and LZ's, but the Vietnamese can't see through it any better than the Americans could.
@@Ripa-Moramee No, the US couldn't simply have "nuked Vietnam off the map" - that would have destroyed the US's credibility until the end of time, turned the US into a hermit state and led to the end of US hegemony outside it's own borders - and that would just be the start of the US's problems.
I guess that puts the dambusters in the same group
@@kenneth9874 It does. Flooding has been used as a weapon in war plenty of times - the worst perpetrator I can think of was the US's boy Chiang Kai-shek, who flooded the Yellow River to hamper the Japanese - 30,000 to 80,000 Chinese civilians died just in the initial flooding. No surprises then that so many Chinese viewed Mao as a l"lesser evil."
@@flippydaflip5310 I wouldn't call someone that's responsible for 60-80 million deaths a lesser evil
Some say that DDT which was banned about the same time the polio vaccine was introduced is what causes polio or poliomyelitis.
Awesome video man!
Real good job 👍🏻👍🏻
Love your vidéo Sir Slav !!
I don’t know if you’ve done it yet, but you should do a video going over the brightest things ever.
Not to mention the Radium girls. We weren't to perceptive back then sometimes
You should have shown what happened to the guy who ate DDT with a spoon...😂😂
I was a soldier in UK. Before deployed to jungle our clothes was sent to be impregnated with DDT, we also got bottles to apply on skin. It was so strong when applied, the label on a can drink I took with me came off onto my hand. The can was just silver 😬. Terrible stuff.
holy shit mr slav is a real person
i love your channel dude
hey Mr Slav, I think doing a video on the Halifax Explosion would be a great idea! It was the biggest accidental manmade explosion which left a city in ruins. I highly suggest you look into it!