> Plenty of other scientists have looked 
> into the endocrine disruption aspect of atrazine.

Yes, and the article detailed that, showing widespread support for the Hayes
position:

"By that point, there were seventy-five published studies on the subject,
but the E.P.A. excluded the majority of them from consideration, because
they did not meet the requirements for quality that the agency had set in
2003. The conclusion was based largely on a set of studies funded by
Syngenta... One of the co-authors was Alan Hosmer, a Syngenta scientist
whose job, according to a 2004 performance evaluation, included 'atrazine
defence' and 'influencing EPA.' 

After the hearing, two of the independent experts who had served on the
E.P.A.'s scientific advisory panel, along with fifteen other scientists,
wrote a paper (not yet published) complaining that the agency had repeatedly
ignored the panel's recommendations and that it placed 'human health and the
environment at the mercy of industry.' 'The EPA works with industry to set
up the methodology for such studies with the outcome often that industry is
the only institution that can afford to conduct the research,' they wrote.
The Kloas study was the most comprehensive of its kind: its researchers had
been scrutinized by an outside auditor, and their raw data turned over to
the E.P.A.  But the scientists wrote that one set of studies on a single
species was 'not a sufficient edifice on which to build a regulatory
assessment.' Citing a paper by Hayes, who had done an analysis of sixteen
atrazine studies, they wrote that 'the single best predictor of whether or
not the herbicide atrazine had a significant effect in a study was the
FUNDING SOURCE.' "

We need to avoid buying "spin" that makes this appear the tale of an erratic
man who did poor work.

In this case, it is exactly true that "Paranoia is just having the right
information." (William S. Burroughs)

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