Word: dethier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actually intensified the problem by encouraging the abandonment of such traditional?and sound?agricultural practices as rotating and diversifying crops and adjusting times of planting to avoid insect infestations. "Insecticides have failed not because of any inherent weakness in the concept of reducing insect populations by chemicals," writes Vincent Dethier of the University of Massachusetts in his newly published book Man's Plague? (Darwin Press; $9.95). "They have failed because of misuse, because of the unrealistic goals we set ourselves, because of irresponsibility, profit motive, laziness and ignorance...