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Parachuting Cats

In Borneo in the early 1950's, the World Health Organization was faced with the problem of malaria among the Dayak people in Borneo. They had an answer that was short, simple and wrong - to spray DD T all over the place and kill the mosquitoes that carried malaria. The mosquito population declined, the incidence of malaria declined, and everybody declared the program a success. They soon discovered, however, that the roofs of people's houses were falling in on their heads. It seems the DDT had poisoned wasps which parasitized thatch-eating caterpillars. Without the wasps, the caterpillars proliferated, ate thatched roofs, and the roofs fell in. The World Health Organization found it also had a worse problem: the DDT had built up in the food chain - it got into the insects, which were eaten by little lizard-like creatures called geckos, which were eaten by the cats. The cats died, the rats flourished, and the World Health Organization was faced with an outbreak of sylvatic plague and typhus, which it had itself created. It was then obliged to parachute live cats into Borneo. The lesson one should draw is that in many instances, the cause of the problems is prior solutions that were not thought out well enough. All things interact, often in ways we don't understand. But at the same time, if we understand the interactions better, the solutions we come up with will go further than we might initially have thought. The solutions can then beget even more solutions. Note: More than 2 million Americans become seriously ill every year from toxic reactions to correct/yprescribed medications taken properly; over 106,000 of them die from those reactions. The solution to good health lies in eliminating interference (subluxation) from the body, not creating it.

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