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RE: “In defense of knotweed” [Viewpoint, May 29]:
I can understand how Timothy Scott, as one who makes a living in herbal medicine, can appreciate Japanese knotweed as a useful plant, since he uses it to help treat Lyme disease and he sees the hand of fate in the luck of having his preferred treatment spreading with the disease.
I can also appreciate the other uses for it that he mentions, such as it being an edible plant, a potential biofuel, and that it can clean contaminants out of the soil.
However, I cannot agree with Scott referring to the spread of knotweed in Irene-affected areas as “nature doing what nature does.”...
