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
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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