Woah! Easy does it, Dave!!
I completely sympathize with the thoughts that not everything "organic" is safe, and not everything considered safe is "organic". I actually have a problem with the feel-good, marketing term "organic" because it does not really mean what people think it means.
But when you say "All you have to do is look at the name or structure to deduce that chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and likely to be significantly toxic to mammals as well as insects", well, I think maybe less than 5% of folks on this site have the skill set to deduce that. OK, maybe WAY less than 5%, even though ther are lots of bright folks on this site!. I consider myself slightly smarter than the average bear (PhD, Geology), but when I see phrases like "organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor", well, I go a bit cross-eyed, and drool out of the left corner of my mouth (maybe that's an indication that I have been exposed to an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, but I really don't know). I could probably look it up, but it would take me a bit of time to understand what that means (and I certainly could not deduce it from the name chlorpyrifos).
FWIW, I think that evaluating pesticides, herbicides, household chemicals, etc. for their safety and efficacy is a very worthwhile and noble pursuit. The bad ones are replaced by better ones over time. Over the decades, though, I think the dangers of some chemicals are overblown (traces of trihalomethanes in treated drinking water concern me far less than E. coli or cholera , for example).
Cheers!
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