Pest management, as a philosophy of pest control, has to displace the pesticide approach to pest problem solving in most agricultural production systems. Progress, to date, has been slow. The existence and maintenance of pesticide addiction has inhibited the acceptance of pest management philosophy by corn producers. Pesticide addiction has been supported by the agricultural establishment in various ways, including use of worst-case data, unjustifiable extrapolation of small plot data, unrealistic loss summation for various pests, and selective data use. Pest managers must understand the forces that directly or indirectly oppose establishment of the pest management philosophy to be able to promote its use.