|
|
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource."
|
[UC-Berkeley Biologist Hayes] E-mails spark ethics row
|
|---|
| Parent(s) |
Issue
|
| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Aug 23, 2010 07:04pm |
| Logged |
0
|
| Category | Scandal |
| News Date | Thursday, August 19, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The rapper Earl 'DMX' Simmons is not known for his conciliatory lyrics. So Tyrone Hayes, a biologist and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, drew from Simmons's lexicon earlier this year while writing a series of 'trash-talking' e-mails to representatives of Syngenta, the world's largest producer of the herbicide atrazine.
Those e-mails, which Hayes says were prompted by a heated encounter with a Syngenta scientist, are included in an ethics complaint that Syngenta filed with top University of California officials on 19 July. The Syngenta scientist concerned denies provoking Hayes. The action marks the latest in a series of bitter exchanges between the Switzerland-based company and Hayes, whose work has linked atrazine to adverse effects on the environment and on human health. |
| Share |
|
|
2¢
|
|
| Article | Read Full Article |
|
| Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
|
