Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him #longread

Hayes has devoted the past fifteen years to studying atrazine, a widely used herbicide made by Syngenta. The company’s notes reveal that it struggled to make sense of him, and plotted ways to discredit him.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv

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