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  1. 19806

    I find it absolutely incredible that anyone is seriously contemplating an escalation of “natural” herbicides as mentioned in this article. As there is no “additive” sprayed on the crop, no testing is likely in animal or human clinical trials. We in the first world must bear the brunt of this wholesale testing on populations, as […]

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  2. Agriculture

    Herbal Herbicides

    Scientists are tapping plants, and the self-defense chemicals they make, for new weed killers, many of which may find use in organic farming.

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  3. Humans

    Letters from the March 17, 2007, issue of Science News

    Disputable thesis “Counterintuitive Toxicity: Increasingly, scientists are finding that they can’t predict a poison’s low-dose effects” (SN: 1/20/07, p.