Brian Griffith's Blog - Posts Tagged "pesticides"

In December 2013, JAMA Neurology published a study showing a link between DDT exposure and Alzheimer’s. We might ask, do you remember trucks spraying DDT around your neighborhood in the 1960s?
War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals

When bee colony collapse disorder spread across the country in the following seasons, the EPA claimed there was no evidence that pesticides were responsible. And this was confirmed in 2006, when the EPA suddenly closed its research library in Washington due to “budget pressure,” and moved all its previous research on the effects of agricultural chemicals into uncatalogued cardboard boxes in a cafeteria basement War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals