After being disinvited as a keynote speaker at a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency conference -- apparently because of pressure from chemical companies -- researcher Tyrone Hayes is making the rounds of those who do want to hear from him in the state. He should also be invited to Michigan, another major abuser of toxic atrazine.
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A scientist embroiled in a political firestorm this year in Minnesota because of his 2002 research showing links between atrazine and frog malformities will speak Saturday in St. Charles.
Professor Tyrone B. Hayes of the University of California at Berkeley will talk at the annual meeting of the Sustainable Farming Association of Southeast Minnesota. Hayes also will speak April 8 at Saint Mary's University.
Hayes' talk Saturday is titled "From silent spring to silent night: Pesticides, amphibian decline and what it means to us."
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Posted by Dave at February 11, 2005 10:15 PM