Rachel Aviv: The Scientist Who Took on a Leading Herbicide Manufacturer : The New Yorker - 0 views
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Lawrence Hrubes on 04 Feb 14"Hayes has devoted the past fifteen years to studying atrazine, and during that time scientists around the world have expanded on his findings, suggesting that the herbicide is associated with birth defects in humans as well as in animals. The company documents show that, while Hayes was studying atrazine, Syngenta was studying him, as he had long suspected. Syngenta's public-relations team had drafted a list of four goals. The first was "discredit Hayes.""