Anti-1080 protesters are being called ignorant, abusive, anti-conservation and pro-pest – even ‘anti-science'.

The science that DoC has neglected is epidemiological studies on chronic, low-dose exposures of 1080 on humans and native fauna. No multi-generational studies on birds, koura, lizards and frogs, or invertebrates. But Australian research found their blue-tongue lizard doesn't die easily but 1080 causes damage to sperm ducts. What does it do to humans?

Mike Mead found insects exposed to 1080 suffered a high death rate. How do birds survive with reduced insect numbers and chronic exposures to dietary 1080 and its metabolites?

What is 1080's impact on soil life, our ‘wood wide web', therefore forest health? Where is the science explaining why some areas lost almost their entire bird population post-1080? Why the cluster of brain tumours diagnosed near a buried 1080 dump? Or several deaths near Hepburn within a week of each other? Or those who swear their motor neuron disease started after 1080 exposure?

Authorities ignored the testing when 60 per cent of water samples came back positive to 1080.

Science dedicated to pursuing an agenda is not science. Ignoring data that doesn't suit is not science.

Kiwis are dismayed when they ask for science and get insults.

T Livingston, Whakamarama.