Tyrone Hayes Quotes

Tyrone B. Hayes is an American biologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in frogs, concluding that the herbicide atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that demasculinizes male frogs, causing them to display female characteristics, through a process known as feminization. Hayes is an advocate for the critical review and regulation of pesticides as well as other chemicals that may cause adverse health effects. He has presented hundreds of papers, discussions, and seminars on his research's conclusion that environmental contaminants have played a major role in the global amphibian decline as well as being linked to the many health disparities that occur in minority and low income populations.

Hayes' research into atrazine as an endocrine disruptor has been contested by Syngenta – the company who manufactures atrazine – and the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.

In 2023, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. July 1967
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Tyrone Hayes Quotes

“Clearly there’s some entity that doesn’t really include us, the professors and students, and doesn’t really protect our academic freedom, I think, the way that it should.”

Silencing the Scientist: Tyrone Hayes on Being Targeted by Herbicide Firm Syngenta https://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/21/silencing_the_scientist_tyrone_hayes_on (February 21, 2014)

“We turn on the faucet, the water comes out, we assume it's safe, and we assume that we are masters of our environment, rather than being part of it.”

The toxic baby https://www.ted.com/talks/tyrone_hayes_penelope_jagessar_chaffer_the_toxic_baby (December 2010)

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