Atrazine is the second most widely used herbicide in the U.S., where sales are estimated at about three hundred million dollars a year. ... 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... Syngenta’s public-relations team had drafted a list of four goals. The first was “discredit Hayes.” newyorker/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all
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