Tyrone Hayes & Penelope Jagessar Chaffer | The Toxic Baby
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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. (Hayes, an expert on amphibians, is a critic of atrazine, which displays a disturbing effect on frog development.) Onstage together at TEDWomen, Hayes and Chaffer tell their story. This talk was presented at an official TED conference,
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atrazine, hazards