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Scientists loved and loathed by an agrochemical giant
A scientist's view of the relationships being forged with corporations and the expectations that accompany them
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Exeter, England
THE bee findings were not what Syngenta expected to hear.
The pesticide giant had commissioned James Cresswell, a specialist in flowers and bees at the University of Exeter in England, to study why many of the world's bee colonies were dying. Companies such as Syngenta have long blamed a tiny bug called a varroa mite, rather than their own pesticides, for the bee decline.
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