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Pesticide maker discredited critics to protect controversial herbicide, court papers show

2013-06-17 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental Health News: To protect profits threatened by a lawsuit over its controversial herbicide atrazine, Syngenta Crop Protection launched an aggressive multi-million dollar campaign that included hiring a detective agency to investigate scientists on a federal advisory panel, looking into the personal life of a judge and commissioning a psychological profile of a leading scientist critical of atrazine. The Switzerland-based pesticide manufacturer also routinely paid third-party allies to appear to be independent...

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