“Despite Marks’ concerns, Syngenta publicized her original findings at an annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in 2004, Botham testified.”
Paraquat is banned in at least 58 countries, including China and Switzerland. Syngenta is Swiss, owned by the Chinese government, and sells it in California anyway. Its own scientist reproduced the dopamine cell loss in mice, and the company presented the earlier run that showed nothing and kept the rest from the EPA. Syngenta booked a record $33 billion in sales in 2022 and blames the 3,600 lawsuits on a “mass tort machine.”