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Where can I find out more about him turning down piles of industry hush money? All I can see on wikipedia is he was beefing with some makers of atrazine.


I haven't seen him disclose a specific number but they basically offered to keep him very comfortably employed by them, however they wanted to manipulate his research and working for them meant that they could keep the results out of the public eye (They owned his research and he was under a confidentiality contract) so when they buried his work he left and continued his research independent of their funding so that he could publish.

I've seen far too many of his talks and interviews on youtube to recall which ones had him speaking about it himself, but here is his wife:

> "Tyrone was asked to be on a scientific panel to review the evidence about atrazine. When he discovered these results and reported it to them, they asked him to do some additional work to make sure that these things were really accurate. So he did some additional work and then they wanted him to do more and more and more and this is where Syngenta said basically we can fund you for a really long time if you'll just keep repeating this. It could have been very easy just to take all the money they were offering and be set for life. It would have been like an endowment for life for him, for research." (https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-new-yorker-present...)




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