SciBabe says eat your pesticides. But who is paying her?
[caption id="attachment_5069" align="alignright" width="265"] SciBabe's bad science tries to make the pesticide industry look good.[/caption] Blogging under the name SciBabe, Yvette d’Entremont...
March 31, 2018
Study: How Coca-Cola Declared War on the “Public Health Community”
News Release For Immediate Release: Thursday, March 15, 2018 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (415) 944-7350 The Coca-Cola Company proposed and financed the now-defunct group Global...
March 15, 2018
Open Letter to STAT: It’s Time for Stronger Transparency Standards
Dear Rick Berke and Gideon Gil, At a time when the public is questioning the legitimacy of news media – and science itself – it is important for health and science publications such as STAT to...
February 28, 2018
U.S. Right to Know Sues CDC for Documents about Its Ties to Coca-Cola
News Release For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (415) 944-7350 U.S. Right to Know sued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
February 21, 2018
Newsweek’s Bizarre Standard for Opinion Writers
Update 2/6/18 Upheaval at Newsweek: The news outlet is imploding amid a financial scandal and poor leadership. Some editors "recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over...
January 31, 2018
Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Hit on Organic Food
Update: Newsweek's bizarre response By Stacy Malkan “The campaign for organic food is a deceitful, expensive scam,” according to a Jan. 19 Newsweek article authored by Dr. Henry I. Miller...
January 23, 2018
Trevor Butterworth, Sense About Science and STATS Spin Science for Industry
Trevor Butterworth and his colleagues at Sense About Science/STATS have written for prominent news outlets and been quoted as independent experts on science and media. This fact sheet provides...
January 22, 2018
Top Findings of the U.S. Right To Know Investigations
Documents obtained by USRTK offer a rare look into the secrets of food and chemical corporations. Since 2015, U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit consumer and public health watchdog group, has obtained...
January 22, 2018
Did 24 Coke-Funded Studies on Childhood Obesity Fail to Disclose Coke’s Influence?
News Release For Immediate Release: Monday, December 11, 2017 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (415) 944-7350 How accurate were conflict of interest disclosures in at least 40...
December 11, 2017
The Rise of Anti-Women, Anti-Public Health Groups
[caption id="attachment_4736" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo©Tony Powell. 2017 Independent Women's Forum Gala. Union Station. November 15, 2017[/caption] This article first appeared...
November 30, 2017