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There are many common arguments against the use of pesticides. Surgeon general nominee Casey Means has an additional one — a connection between pesticides and Nazi Germany.

'Where did all these pesticides that have destroyed our life-giving soil and are creating a fragile food system, which is going to create a food crisis at some point, where did they all come from? Nazi Germany, right?' Means said on Tucker Carlson’s podcast in August 2024.

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Thompson described Means’ argument as a 'bait and switch.'

'The suggestion that because this came from Nazi Germany, that therefore it is evil and poisonous, while in some sense, I have sympathy for that argument, in another sense, it’s kind of sloppy,' he said. 'To simply say that they’re bad because at one point, a Nazi chemist was involved in their development, it would discount so many things we have in our contemporary world.'"

https://forward.com/fast-forward/718882/casey-means-surgeon-general-tucker-carlson/