>Looks to me he has good credentials.

If you consider being funded by the Oil and Tobacco industries as 'good credentials'. As far as Avery is concerned, he's the guy who said that chemically sprayed food is healthier than organic, and to support that, he seems to have made up his stats.

Check out http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trashing_organic_foods

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>>>By couple of Amospheric Physicists.
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer