Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., a professor at the University of California-Berkeley, has conducted research that he claims shows atrazine harms frogs. What you might not know is that Hayes is well known to the scientists of the EPA, who reviewed four of his studies during the agency’s 2002 and 2003 examination of atrazine. They even visited Hayes’ lab, and reviewed some of his raw findings. According to Anne E. Lindsay, who was deputy director of the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs at the time, the agency foundHayes’ studies (and lots of others) too flawed and inconsistent to be considered proof that zatrazine harms frogs
