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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