Tyrone Hayes, biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has conducted numerous experiments on the herbicide atrazine, which is applied to more than half the corn in the United States and ends up in the drinking water supply in areas where it is applied. Syngenta, the corporation that produces atrazine, has spent the last 15 years hounding Dr. Hayes at conferences, and attempting to discredit him any way possible. Today the New Yorker has an in depth look at the extreme measures that Syngenta went to over the years to discredit Dr. Hayes, and how those efforts have kept atrazine on the market, and on our foods and in our water supplies. |
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John R. Moffett PhD is a research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area. Dr. Moffett's main area of research focuses on the brain metabolite N-acetylaspartate, and an associated genetic disorder known as Canavan disease.