Reply #118: Where would we be?

[kenfrequed]

If the coincidentalists were so easily swayed by the pesticide industry when Rachel Carson was observing the thinning shells of birds and tried tracing it back to DDT.

The frog deformities also come to mind when we see ample evidence suggesting farm pesticides are causing tetrogenic defects in that population, and yet the chemical industries scientists seem to be pushing hard with the theory that it is exclusively the work of a parasite. The pesticide companies have sang the same song with colony collapse disorder among honeybees.

Doubt is fine, but excessively defensive doubt makes me ponder motive.