text: Civil Beat appears to be a very easy fish to catch when the topic is GM, pesticides or Big Ag, and should more carefully inspect the bait before getting hooked. 
  
  Any path to action has to consider what was found rather than just focusing on what wasn’t found:
  
  The UH study on pesticide drift sampling of air at and near public locations for over a year found only tiny traces of a couple of pesticides; 
  
  HDOA’s good neighbor database does show how much, how often and what kinds of pesticides were applied, and 93% of the amount applied was less acutely toxic than aspirin, and; 
  
  Analysis of domestic water on Kauai found pesticides could not be detected. 
  
  These findings are solid and significant for informing any action plan. An earlier study also found that urban areas on Oahu had the highest number of different pesticides, implicating non-agricultural sources. 
  
  That no evidence of harm was found should not be maddening to CB – it may be related to some of the evidence that was found.