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Pesticide Activism: Fifty Years of Panic and Propaganda

This report details the long history of toxic journalism, the new and historical facts and science the media ignore in propping up “the grand narrative”[1], and why this problem is likely to get worse. That is why this issue needs to be addressed as society grapples with the growing human health and welfare challenges in a more crowded and resource-limited world of the 21st century. Continue reading

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Tyrone Hayes—A Frog in His Throat

Dr. Tyrone Hayes of UC Berkeley—in his personal quest to demonize the herbicide atrazine just as a previous generation successfully demonized Alar—gave an encore performance before the EPA’s fourth Scientific Advisory Panel on this subject on Wednesday. Continue reading

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The Strange Case of Dr. Tyrone Hayes

Warning: Some of the emails quoted in this post from Dr. Tyrone Hayes are obscene.
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EPA Exposes Tyrone Hayes—Again!

The press can’t get enough of Tyrone Hayes, the Berkeley researcher who claims that his studies show that the common herbicide atrazine causes abnormalities in frogs (and by implication, in people as well). Hayes is all over the press while he tours the state legislatures of the Midwest, selling his scare stories. Continue reading

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Peering Into Peer Review on Atrazine – industry studies are often better and more transparent

In a recent blog, I outlined some of the big money behind the activist assault on modern agricultural technology, particularly the safe and effective herbicide, atrazine. Much of that money probably flows directly from trial lawyers through activist “laundering” operations … Continue reading

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The Big Money Behind the Environmental Scare Movement –the attack on atrazine replays the alar scare

In April, the National Resources Defense Council issued an update in its all-out campaign to demonize and ban the herbicide atrazine.  The scope of its attack shows that the NRDC has learned a thing or two from the 1980s, when … Continue reading

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Researcher Alex Avery Criticizes Atrazine Studies by Dr. Tyrone Hayes in New Video

Alex Avery, Director of Research and Education at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues, released a video criticizing new research by University of California Berkeley professor Dr. Tyrone Hayes alleging endocrine disruption in amphibians caused by the popular … Continue reading

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No New Findings in Atrazine Study Promoted by Discredited Researcher, According to the Hudson Institute Center for Global Food Issues

“Scientifically Flawed,” “Insufficient Data,” “Results Problematic if not impossible” describe past critiques of studies done by Dr. Tyrone Hayes Continue reading

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Growers Support Continued Atrazine Use

Brownfield Ag News: Growers Support Continued Atrazine Use Continue reading

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“What’s for Lunch?” Video from IFIC Addresses Consumer Concerns About School Lunch Choices

International Food Information Council Foundation posts humorous school lunch video in popular You Tube space. Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 19, 2008 — Introducing “What’s for Lunch?,” a short YouTube friendly video that addresses consumer concerns about food choice from the … Continue reading

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