Hey, everybody. I'm really happy to have one of my old, old friends and a

inveterate expert witness in a number of cases that I've been hanging out with for almost 40 years

on the Hudson River working on the PCB cases. David Carbiter is well known to both plaintiffs

and defense attorneys all across the country as one of the leading and most respected experts when

it comes to looking at the impacts of toxic chemicals on human health. But let me just ask,

yes, that's something that's really a preoccupation of mine, which is the neonicotic toy to

pesticides that have essentially replaced DDT and some of the old organophosphate pesticides

and that we're using this country and discredited. But in many ways, they seem almost as bad

and we're watching the collapse of bee colonies. Something like 80% of wind insects have

disappeared over the past decade. It's a global apocalypse of the insects and you know, we need the

insects as much as people might think they're just irritating. We need them. We need them for our

survival. So tell us about about this class of pesticides. What do you mean to human health and

the ecology? The neonicotinonides are a class of pesticides that everybody thought was just

God's gift of mankind. These are a class of pesticides where you don't spray them. You impregnate

the seeds of your food crop with these pesticides. They get incorporated into the leaves of the plant

and any insect that eats the leaves or the stems of the plant is killed. So, well, you know, Bobby,

I was in the car all day driving back, but literally for about eight hours. And you and I both

remember the days when you would drive for several hours and you wouldn't shield would be covered

with dead bugs. We drove for eight hours and there are a few bugs, but not many. And that just

indicates how much our use of pesticides have reduced the numbers of insects, the flying

insects that used to get on our car. And the mechanism of these chemicals is that they interfere,

they activate acetylcholine receptors. Now, that sounds dangerous for us because acetylcholine

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