Center for Global Food Issues: The Cancerous Legacy of Rachel Carson - Article contends that Carson's warnings about the risks of pesticides were wrong. Go

Smithsonian Magazine: Sounding the Alarm - Assesses the influence of 'Silent Spring' forty years later: 'It forever changed our view of the environment.' Go

New York Times: There's Poison All Around Us Now - Review of 'Silent Spring.' (September 23, 1962) Go

Competitive Enterprise Institute: Rachel Was Wrong - Brief article on 'Silent Spring' argues that 'many of the concerns Carson raised were unfounded.' Go

Frontline: Silent Spring Revisited - Discusses how supporters & critics assess Carson's influential book. From the Web site of the PBS TV series Frontline. Go

National Resources Defense Council: The Story of "Silent Spring" - The positive influence of 'Silent Spring.' Go

National Wildlife: How Rachel Carson Helped Save the Brown Pelican - Tells how the coastal brown pelican survived as a result of Carson's success in warning of pesticides' danger to wildlife. From National Wildlife magazine. Go

Capitalism Magazine: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Environmentalist Mythology Killing Us Softly - Article blames Carson's 'mythology' about DDT for unnecessary deaths from diseases that DDT was once used to fight. Go

Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" & the Environmental Movement - Discusses the controversy spawned by the publication of 'Silent Spring.' Go

Rachel Carson - Al Gore's introduction to the 1994 edition of 'Silent Spring.' Go

Reason Online: "Silent Spring" at 40 - Finds the legacy of the book 'troubling,' particularly in regard to carcinogenic effects of pesticides. Go