Talk:Defoliant

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Does anyone know the difference between a defoliant and a herbicide?

• Yes: a defoliant is a chemical sprayed or dusted on plants to cause the leaves to fall off, and an herbicide is a chemical substance used to destroy or inhibit the growth of plants, especially weeds. Before you pointed out the problem, the main defoliant stub contained the incorrect definition, which I fixed. – ClockworkSoul 14:29, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism or just bad wording?

I removed the following from the article:

"Defoliants also suffer terribly from syphilis from time to time. 1 in 1,000 of latent, untreated syphilis cases in defoliants develop paresis (figure from BSTYR)."

I'm not sure that this makes any sense. Does it mean to imply that people exposed to defoliants develop syphillis? If i'm just stupid and missing the point completly then someone may feel free to revert it. In the meantime however it doesn't seem to make any sense. Bigbrisco 17:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)