Any potential losses to agriculture will be reported. Rather, the content aims mainly at an exploration of the interfaces among public perceptions, science, communication and public policy. The primacy of the anti-pesticide message gives it a natural advantage. Only then is information about the safety of the pesticide presented. If the ordering of information were reversed, the impact of the anti-pesticide information would be attenuated.
People feel that pesticide in food is beyond their control.
Thus, somebody else must protect them from pesticides because they cannot protect themselves. Consequently, the philosophers seem to get the students and the sciences do not. The stand against pesticides is therefore just symptomatic of a larger problem. Considering and reorganizing agriculture as the premier environmental science. Encouraging students or individual citizens to have home gardens with and without chemicals to prove or disprove the usefulness of chemicals.