They Paid This Professor To Study Frogs. But When They Saw His Results, Things Got Really Ugly.

This man has a story you won’t believe. Is he safe? Are we?

At 5:00, Dr. Hayes describes the unbelievable lengths Syngenta went to to intimidate him; it sounds like a spy novel. He talks about the gender-bending aspects of Atrazine at 2:20 and corporate control of university research at 10:15.


Definitely stay for his finalcomments beginning at 15:55 about what it’s like now that Syngenta’s creepybehavior has been exposed. To read more of the fascinating and horrifying story, here’s the New Yorker article he mentions.

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