1KHO 933: We Do Not Want to Hand a Scorched Earth to Our Children | Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Toxic Legacy

Ginny Yurich (0:34)

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Dr. Stephanie Seneff is joining us today. She has spent decades as a researcher at MIT, and today we will be talking about her book, Toxic Legacy, and her research into glyphosate, the active ingredient historically associated with herbicides like Roundup, and the questions she believes we should be asking about its effects on human health and the environment. I learned so much reading Stephanie's book and preparing for this conversation, and I think you will too. Here is my conversation with Dr. Stephanie Seneff.

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Welcome to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast.

I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And we are going to be talking about one of the most critical topics of conversation that we could be talking about today. We're going to be talking about glyphosate. An author and researcher, Dr. Stephanie Seneff is here. She wrote this incredible book, incredible book called Toxic Legacy, How the Weed Killer Glyphosate is Destroying Our Health and the Environment, One Scientist Determined Quest to Reveal the Truth. Stephanie, welcome to you. It's an incredible book.

Stephanie Seneff (3:57)

Thank you so much. I'm glad you appreciate it.

Ginny Yurich (4:00)

Okay. It is an honor to get a chance to talk with you. You are a senior research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most innovative research universities in the world. You have done decades of research. You've published over 200 peer-review scientific articles.

You got your PhD in 1985 and have just been doing incredible work for decades upon decades. So I wanted to ask to sort of kick this off about, what's very interesting about this book, Toxic Legacy, is autism comes up a lot in the book, because this is something that you are studying. You are studying environmental factors that might be causing the increase in autism among America's children. And so can you talk about that you went and listened to someone talk about glyphosate and at that moment you hadn't heard the word before?

Stephanie Seneff (4:50)

It's amazing actually, because I had been looking for five years. I started looking in 2007, completely pivoted on my research at MIT. Unfortunately, they let me do that, which was great. I've been doing toxic chemicals in health and disease ever since then. And I was very interested in autism, because I kept seeing the rates go up every year. And it was like, oh, yeah, don't worry, we're just diagnosing it more. And I thought, there's got to be something going on here. I never knew anybody with autism, or knew anybody who knew anybody with autism when I was a child.