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Bayer pressured researchers over neonic study results, but researchers pushed back

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Agrichemical giant Bayer helped fund a study by university academics, then pressured them to omit photos that implicated a defective insecticide-treated seed product as a threat to bees, according to communications obtained by U.S. Right to Know. Several seed and insecticide companies, including Bayer, paid Ohio State University researchers to determine how much their insecticide-coated Bayer pressured researchers over neonic study results, but researchers pushed back

World’s most used insecticides damage male fertility in rodents, researchers say

Outcomes of studies conducted over the past two decades underscore a “critical need” to investigate reproductive health risks in men and boys

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Neonicotinoid pesticides, the world’s most widely used class of insecticides, are linked to male reproductive toxicity in lab animals, especially at higher doses, according to a new scientific review of two decades of evidence.