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Zika, microcephaly, and pesticides: half-truths, hysteria, and vested interests

2016-02-26 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ecologist: Those who dare suggest that pesticides might be implicated in Brazil's microcephaly outbreak are being furiously attacked as irrational, nonsense-spouting 'conspiracy theorists', writes Claire Robinson. But the attackers have an uncanny ability to get their own facts in a twist. And among them are writers linked to industries with huge economic interests in the matter. I recently published an article on reports by the Argentine doctors' group, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, and the Brazilian...

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