Our Investigations

U.S. Right to Know is a nonprofit investigative public health research and journalism group working globally to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health, environment and food system. Since 2015, we have obtained, posted and reported on thousands of industry and government documents, including many acquired through judicial enforcement of open records laws.

Our investigations into the pesticide and ultra-processed food industries have been reported on worldwide, leading tothreeNew York Timesexposés; more than adozen articlesin the BMJ, one of the world’s leading medical journals; and16 co-authoredpeer-reviewed public health journal articles. Our team has also reported extensively on the origins of Covid-19 and high-risk virological research.

Findings of the U.S. Right to Know investigation by topic:

Coca-Cola Company > Glyphosate > Chemical Fact Sheets and Document Pages > Academics and Universities > Government Agencies > Industry PR and Front Groups > Disney Funded Food Research > Synthetic Biology > Reporters and Media > Reports > Right to Know Review Newsletter > FOIA and Disclosure > Biohazards and SARS-CoV-2

Coca-Cola Company

  • See our academic page for academic studies involving Coke based on our documents.
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: How Coca-Cola Shaped the International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health: An Analysis of Email Exchanges between 2012 and 2014
  • BMJ: Coca-Cola sought to shift blame for obesity by funding public health conferences, study reports
  • Public Health Nutrition: Evaluating Coca-Cola’s attempts to influence public health ‘in their own words’: analysis of Coca-Cola emails with public health academics leading the Global Energy Balance Network
  • BMJ: Coca-Cola’s work with academics was a “low point in history of public health”
  • Daily Mail: Coca-Cola ‘paid scientists to downplay how sugary beverages fueled the obesity crisis between 2013-2015,’ medical journal study finds
  • POPLab: Infiltrada en universidades, Coca Cola usó científicos para minimizar daño de refrescos en la salud, revelan correos
  • IFLScience: Nonprofit Health Group Tried To Bury Funding From Coca-Cola, Study Says
  • Science Times: Study Evaluates Coca-Cola’s Attempts to Influence Public Opinion on Sugary Beverages and Obesity
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Targeting Children and Their Mothers, Building Allies and Marginalising Opposition: An Analysis of Two Coca-Cola Public Relations Requests for Proposals
  • Washington Post: Coca-Cola internal documents reveal efforts to sell to teens, despite obesity crisis
  • BMJ: Coca-Cola marketing to children is a ‘serious public health concern,’ researchers warn
  • CNN: Coke targeted teens by saying sugary drinks are healthy
  • Axios: Coca-Cola ad campaign targeted teens as childhood obesity worsens
  • Journal of Public Health Policy: “Always Read the Small Print”: a case study of commercial research funding, disclosure and agreements with Coca-Cola
  • Discover: Study uncovers how Coca-Cola influences science research
  • MedPage Today: Study: Coca-Cola doesn’t ‘walk its talk’ on research independence
  • STAT: Study pulls back curtain on contracts between Coca-Cola and the researchers it funds
  • Gizmodo: Coca-Cola Can Terminate Health Research It Funds, Investigation Finds
  • Politico: Coca-Cola gained control over health research in return for funding, health journal says
  • Le Monde: Comment Coca-Cola a bafoué ses promesses de transparence dans les contrats de recherche
  • Inverse: University Records Reveal Coca-Cola’s Immense Power Over Health Research
  • Philadelphia Inquirer: Coca-Cola’s research contracts allowed for quashing negative health findings, study finds
  • BMJ: Coca-Cola Contracts Could Allow it to “Quash” Unfavourable Research
  • Milbank Quarterly: Public Meets Private: Conversations Between Coca-Cola and the CDC
  • Associated Press: Limit Food Industry Sway on Public Health Matters
  • The Washington Post: Coca-Cola Emails Reveal How Soda Industry Tries to Influence Health Officials
  • BMJ: Coca-Cola and Obesity: Study Shows Efforts to Influence US Centers for Disease Control
  • Coca-Cola emails with the CDC are posted in the U.S. Right to Know Food Industry Collection in the UCSF Food Industry Documents Library
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: Science organisations and Coca-Cola’s ‘war’ with the public health community: insights from an internal industry document
  • New York Times: New C.D.C. Chief Saw Coca-Cola as Ally in Obesity Fight
  • Bloomberg: Emails Show How Food Industry Uses ‘Science’ to Push Soda
  • Critical Public Health: How food companies influence evidence and opinion – straight from the horse’s mouth
  • BMJ: US public health agency sued over failure to release emails from Coca-Cola
  • BMJ: Coca-Cola’s Secret Influence on Medical and Science Journalists
  • BMJ: Conflicts of Interest Compromise US Public Health Agency Mission, Scientists Say
  • Journal of Public Health Policy: Complexity and conflicts of interest statements: a case-study of emails exchanged between Coca-Cola and the principal investigators of the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE)
  • The Intercept: Trump’s New CDC Chief Championed Partnership with Coca Cola to Solve Childhood Obesity
  • Forbes: The Coca-Cola Network: Soda Giant Mines Connections with Officials and Scientists to Wield Influence
  • Forbes: Trump’s Pick to Head CDC Partnered With Coke, Boosting Agency’s Longstanding Ties to Soda Giant
  • Environmental Health News: Coca-Cola’s ‘war’ with the public health community
  • Health News Review: Internal documents show Coke had profits in mind when it funded nutrition ‘science’
  • EcoWatch: Coca-Cola Sees Public Health Debate as ‘a Growing War,’ Documents Reveal
  • USRTK short report: Journalists Fail to Reveal Sources Funded by Coca-Cola

USRTK news releases

Coke’s Influence at U.S. Centers for Disease Control

  • BMJ: US public health agency is sued over failure to release emails from Coca-Cola
  • New York Times: New C.D.C. Chief Saw Coca-Cola as Ally in Obesity Fight
  • BMJ: Conflicts of interest compromise US public health agency’s mission, say scientists
  • The Intercept: Trump’s New CDC Chief Championed Partnership with Coca-Cola to Solve Childhood Obesity
  • Forbes: The Coca-Cola Network: Soda Giant Mines Connections with Officials and Scientists to Wield Influence
  • Forbes: Trump’s Pick to Head CDC Partnered With Coke, Boosting Agency’s Longstanding Ties to Soda Giant
  • USRTK: Top scientists at CDC complain of corporate influence, unethical practices
  • San Diego Union Tribune: UCSD Hires Coke-Funded Health Researcher
  • The Hill: What is Going On at CDC? Health Agency Needs Scrutiny
  • USRTK: ILSI Wields Stealthy Influence for the Food and Agrichemical Industries
  • USRTK: More Coca-Cola Ties Seen Inside USCenters for Disease Control
  • USRTK: CDC Official Exits Agency After Coca-Cola Connections Come to Light
  • USRTK: Beverage Industry Finds Friend Inside U.S. Health Agency
  • USRTK news release: U.S. Right to Know Sues CDC for Documents about its Ties to Coca-Cola

Chemical Fact Sheets and Document Pages

Documents and trial updates

Glyphosate Reporting

  • Monsanto Papers and Monsanto Roundup Trial Tracker
  • Carey Gillam’s reporting in The Guardian
  • Undark Magazine: Decades of Deceit: Corporate-Spun Science Should Not Be Guiding Policy
  • Journal of Public Health Policy: Roundup litigation discovery documents: implications for public health and journal ethics
  • Le Monde: Monsanto Papers investigative series (winner of the European Press Prize)
  • Environmental Health News: A story behind the Monsanto cancer trial – journal sits on retraction
  • Environmental Health News: Corporate power, not public interest, at root of science committee hearing on IARC
  • Truth Out: Secret Documents Expose Monsanto’s War on Cancer Scientists
  • In These Times: Monsanto’s Toxic Legacy: An Investigative Reporter Talks Glyphosate
  • USRTK: Reuters’ Kate Kelland Promotes False Narrative About IARC and Glyphosate Cancer Concerns
  • USRTK: Carey Gillam Launches Book on Pesticide Problems and Monsanto Influence; Called to Appear Before European Parliament Joint Committee
  • Presentation to European Parliament: Decades of Deceit: Revelations from the Monsanto Papers, Other Research
  • The Nation: Did Monsanto Ignore Evidence Linking its Weed Killer to Cancer?
  • Environmental Health News: Weed Killer for Breakfast
  • Civil Eats: Reporting on the World’s Most Controversial Farm Chemical
  • EcoWatch: Monsanto’s ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Deception Exposed in ‘Whitewash’
  • USRTK: How Monsanto Manufactured Outrage at IARC Over Cancer Classification
  • EcoWatch: Internal EPA Docs Show Scramble for Data on Monsanto’s Roundup
  • Huffington Post: New Monsanto Papers Add to Questions of Regulatory Collusion, Scientific Mischief
  • FAIR: Reuters vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?
  • USRTK: Reuters’ Kate Kelland IARC Story Promotes False Narrative
  • Huffington Post: Moms Exposed to Monsanto Weed Killer Means Bad Outcomes for Babies
  • Huffington Post: USDA Drops Plans to Test for Monsanto Weed Killer in Food
  • USRTK fact sheet: Glyphosate: Health Concerns About the Most Widely Used Pesticide
  • Huffington Post: Monsanto Weed Killer Deserves Deeper Scrutiny as Scientific Manipulation Revealed
  • USRTK: Questions about Monsanto, EPA Collusion Raised in Cancer Lawsuits
  • Huffington Post: Monsanto’s Mind Meld; Spin Machine in High Gear
  • USRTK: Monsanto and EPA Want to Keep Talks Secret on Glyphosate Cancer Review
  • The Hill: Serious Scrutiny Needed a EPA Seeks Input on Cancer Ties to Monsanto Herbicide
  • USRTK: New Data on Pesticides in Food Raises Safety Questions
  • USRTK: FDA Suspends Testing for Glyphosate in Food
  • USRTK:More Bad News for Honey as US Seeks to Get Handle on Glyphosate Residues in Food
  • The Hill: Bully Monsanto Attacks Scientists Who Link Glyphosate and Cancer
  • Huffington Post: EPA Bows to Chemical Industry Pressure in Glyphosate Review
  • USRTK: Upcoming EPA Meetings On Glyphosate Drawing Scrutiny
  • USRTK: FDA Tests Confirm Oatmeal, Baby Food Contain Monsanto Weedkiller
  • Huffington Post: USRTK Investigation Reveals FDA Found Glyphosate in Honey
  • USRTK: Glyphosate Revolution is Growing, and Consumers Want Answers
  • Le Monde: La discrete influence de Monsanto
  • Guardian: UN/WHO Panel in Conflict of Interest Row over Glyphosate Cancer Risk
  • Die Zeit: Glyphosat: Möglicher Interessenskon flikt bei Pflanzenschutzmittel-Bewertung
  • Horticulture Week: Questions Raised Over Independence of Panel that Found Glyphosate Safe
  • ARD: Experten werfen Fachgremium Wirtschaftsnähe vor
  • USRTK: Conflicts of Interest Concerns Cloud Glyphosate Review
  • USRTK news release: FDA Plan to Measure Weed Killer Residues Only a First Step
  • USRTK news release: USDA Avoids Analyzing Glyphosate in Food Residues for Annual Report

Academics and Universities Linked to Corporations

Our investigation has uncovered secret financial arrangements and close collaborations between corporations, their PR firms and supposedly “independent” academics who promote corporate interests. These revelations were first covered in a front-page story in The New York Times by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lipton.

Kevin Folta, University of Florida

Bruce Chassy, University of Illinois

  • USRTK Fact Sheet: Academics Review: The Making of a Monsanto Front Group
  • WBEZ: Why Didn’t an Illinois Professor Have to Disclose GMO Funding?
  • The Progressive: Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media
  • Huffington Post: Monsanto’s Fingerprints Found All Over Attack on Organic Food
  • USRTK: Following an Email Trail: How a Public University Professor Collaborated on a Corporate PR Campaign
  • USRTK News Release: New Documents Uncover Monsanto’s Secret Role in Bruce Chassy’s Academics Review
  • Mother Jones: Emails Show Monsanto Leaning on Professors to Fight the GMO PR War
  • New York Times: Food Industry Enlisted Academics in GMO Labeling War
  • Retraction Watch: Unearthed Emails: Monsanto Connected to Campaign to Retract GMO Paper
  • USRTK Short Report: Journalists Failed to Disclose Sources’ Funding from Monsanto

Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, former visiting fellow UC Davis

  • USRTK Fact Sheet: Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project: Messengers for Monsanto/Bayer and the Chemical Industry
  • The Progressive: Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media
  • USRTK Fact Sheet: Biotech Literacy Project boot camps
  • USRTK Fact Sheet: Monsanto Relied on These ‘Partners’ to Attack Cancer Scientists
  • Truth Out: Secret Documents Expose Monsanto’s War on Cancer Scientists
  • Le Monde: Monsanto Papers: The Battle for Information and Operation Intoxication
  • The Ecologist: ‘Pro Science’ GMO, Chemical Pushers Funded by Climate Science Deniers
  • USRTK News Release: Group Calls on Jon Entine to Reveal Funding Ties to Industry
  • Bloomberg: How Monsanto Mobilized Academics to Pen Articles Supporting GMO
  • USRTK: Journalists Mentioned in Our FOIA Requests
  • Polluter Watch: Jon Entine

Cornell Alliance for Science & Gates Foundation

  • Fact Sheet: Critiques of Gates Foundation agricultural interventions in Africa
  • Bill Gates Food Tracker: Blog with reporting on Gates Foundation agricultural interventions
  • Fact Sheet: Gates-Funded Cornell Alliance for Science is a PR Campaign for the Agrichemical Industry
  • Fact Sheet: Mark Lynas Promotes the Agrichemical Industry’s Commercial Agenda
  • USRTK: Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology
  • The Ecologist: Gates Foundation’s failing green revolution in Africa
  • The Ecologist: Why is Cornell University Hosting a GMO Propaganda Campaign?
  • The Ecologist: Bill Gates: Can We Have an Honest Conversation about GMOs?
  • USRTK News Release: Gates Foundation Funds GMO Propaganda Campaign at Cornell
  • Fact Sheet: Cornell Fellow Trevor Butterworth Spins Science for Chemical, Food Industries

Trevor Butterworth, Sense About Science USA, Cornell Alliance for Science

  • USRTK Fact Sheet: Trevor Butterworth Spins Science for Industry
  • USRTK Fact Sheet: Cornell Alliance for Science is a PR Campaign for the Agrichemical Industry
  • BMJ: Author’sreply, Coca Cola’s secret influence on medical and science journalists
  • The Ecologist: ‘Pro Science’ GMO, Chemical Pushers Funded by Climate Science Deniers

Henry I. Miller, formerly Hoover Institution

  • USRTK Fact Sheet: Henry Miller Dropped by Forbes for Ghostwriting Scandal
  • Fact sheets on Henry Miller’s collaborators Julie Kelly and Kavin Senapathy
  • Business Insider: The Future of Food Requires Transparency, Integrity
  • USRTK: Monsanto Fingerprints All Over Miller’s Newsweek Attack on Organic Food
  • Le Monde: Monsanto Papers: The Battle for Information
  • The Ecologist: ‘Pro Science’ GMO, Chemical Pushers Funded by Climate Science Deniers

Keith Kloor, New York University

Drew Kershen,University of Oklahoma College of Law

Calestous Juma, Harvard University

  • Boston Globe: Harvard Professor Failed to Disclose Monsanto Connection in GMO Paper
  • Harvard Crimson: Prof Failed To Disclose Connection to Company in Paper

Alison Van Eenenaam, UC Davis

James Hill & John Peters, University of Colorado, Denver

  • BMJ: Coca-Cola’s Secret Influence on Medical and Science Journalists
  • USRTK news release: BMJ Reveals Secret Industry Funding, based on USRTK documents
  • STAT: Disney, Fearing a Scandal, Tried to Press Journal to Withdraw Research Paper
  • Orlando Sentinel: Disney Nutrition Study Underscores Controversy in Corporate-Funded Research
  • USRTK Short Report: Journalists Fail to Reveal Sources Funded by Coca-Cola

Richard Goodman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

  • Le Monde: La Discrète Influence de Monsanto
  • USRTK: Keeping Secrets from Consumers: Labeling Law a Win for Industry-Academic Collaborations

Peter Phillips, University of Saskatchewan

  • USRTK fact sheet:Corporate influence at the University of Saskatchewan: Professor Peter Phillips and his secret “right to know symposium”
  • The Sheaf: Lawsuit against university comes to an end, public shares concerns
  • Briarpatch magazine: Group hopes courts will force U of S to release documents on ties to Monsanto
  • CBC: U of S Defends Prof’s Monsanto Ties, But Some Faculty Disagree
  • CBC: University of SaskatchewanProf Under Fire for Monsanto Ties
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Group Questions U of S Prof’s Monsanto Link

Stuart Smyth, University of Saskatchewan

David Shaw, Mississippi State University

Steven N. Blair, University of South Carolina

Industry PR & Front Groups

U.S. Right to Know is tracking groups that collaborate with the agrichemical and food industries, often in covert ways, to promote industry products and political agendas.

Fact sheets about writers and PR surrogates the agrichemical industry relies on to promote industry spin about science and regulations.

American Council on Scienceand Health (ACSH)

  • USRTK fact sheet: Why You Can’t Trust the American Council on Science and Health
  • Hank Campbell’s Maze of Monsanto-Loving Websites (ACSH, Science 2.0, ScienceBlogs)
  • FAIR: USA Today and Newsweek need standards for opinion writers
  • The Progressive: Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media
  • Le Monde:Opération intoxication : les réseaux de Monsanto
  • News Release: Public Interests Groups to USA Today: Ditch Columns by ACSH
  • Alternet: USA Today Fail: Trump Science Article Written by Corporate Front Group

GMO Answers

  • USRTK: The GMO Industry Doesn’t Want You To See This Video
  • USRTK fact sheet: GMO Answers is a Marketing and PR Website for GMO Companies
  • USRTK fact sheet: Monsanto Relied on These ‘Partners’ to Attack Top Cancer Scientists
  • USRTK news release: US Right to Know FOIA’s Profs Who Wrote for GMO PR Website

International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)

  • See our Academic Work for journal articles on ILSI co-authored by U.S. Right to Know
  • New York Times: A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World
  • BMJ: International Life Sciences Institute is advocate for food and drink industry, say researchers
  • BMJ: Food and drink industry sought to influence scientists and academics, emails show
  • POPLab: ILSI: Seudociencia para lavar la cara a la pandemia de alimentos chatarra
  • Guardian: Science institute that advised EU and UN ‘actually industry lobby group, by Arthur Neslen
  • Bloomberg: Emails Show How Food Industry Uses ‘Science’ to Push Soda
  • Critical Public Health: How Food Companies Influence Evidence and Opinion
  • Guardian: UN/WHO Panel in Conflict of Interest Row over Glyphosate Cancer Risk
  • The Hill: What is Going On at CDC? Health Agency Needs Scrutiny
  • USRTK: More Coca-Cola Ties Seen Inside USCenters for Disease Control
  • USRTK: CDC Official Exits Agency After Coca-Cola Connections Come to Light
  • USRTK: Beverage Industry Finds Friend Inside U.S. Health Agency
  • FAIR: Reuters Vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?
  • Fact Sheet: ILSI Wields Stealthy Influence for the Food and Agrichemical Industries
  • Die Zeit: Glyphosat:Möglicher Interessenskonflikt bei Pflanzenschutzmittel-Bewertung
  • Horticulture Week: Questions Raised Over Independence of Panel that Found Glyphosate Safe
  • ARD: Experten werfen Fachgremium Wirtschaftsnähe vor
  • USRTK: Conflicts of Interest Concerns Cloud Glyphosate Review

Ketchum PR

  • USRTK fact sheet: Ketchum: The Agrichemical Industry’s PR Firm
  • Video: Ketchum Brags How it Spins the Media on GMO Issues
  • Huffington Post: Ketchum PR Firm Attacks Organic Food, Then Pitches Itself to Organic Companies

Monsanto’s PR partners

  • USRTK fact sheet: Monsanto relied on these ‘partners’ to attack IARC/WHO cancer panel
  • Truth Out: Secret documents reveal Monsanto’s war on cancer scientists

Government Agencies

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • New York Times: New C.D.C. Chief Saw Coca-Cola as Ally in Obesity Fight
  • USRTK news release: U.S. Right to Know Sues CDC for Documents about its Ties to Coca-Cola
  • The Intercept: Trump’s New CDC Chief Championed Partnership with Coca Cola to Solve Childhood Obesity
  • Forbes: The Coca-Cola Network: Soda Giant Mines Connections with Officials and Scientists to Wield Influence
  • Forbes: Trump’s Pick to Head CDC Partnered With Coke, Boosting Agency’s Longstanding Ties to Soda Giant
  • BMJ: Conflicts of interest compromise US public health agency’s mission, say scientists
  • USRTK: Scientists Lodge Ethics Complaint Over Corporate Influence at CDC
  • The Hill: What is Going on at the CDC? Health Agency Ethics Need Scrutiny
  • USRTK: More Coca-Cola Ties Seen Inside US Centers for Disease Control
  • USRTK: CDC Official Exits Agency After Coca-Cola Connections Come to Light
  • USRTK: Beverage Industry Finds Friend Inside U.S. Health Agency

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

  • The Guardian: Weedkiller Found in Granola and Crackers, Internal FDA Emails Show
  • USRTK: New Data on Pesticides in Food Raises Safety Questions
  • USRTK: FDA Suspends Testing for Glyphosate in Food
  • USRTK:More Bad News for Honey as US Seeks to Get Handle on Glyphosate Residues in Food
  • USRTK: FDA Tests Confirm Oatmeal, Baby Foods Contain Residues of Monsanto’s Weedkiller
  • USRTK: FOIA Documents Reveal FDA Found Monsanto Weedkiller in U.S. Honey Samples
  • The Hill: How U.S. Government Agencies Cheat the Public on FOIA
  • USRTK news release: FDA Plan to Measure Weed Killer Residues Only a First Step

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  • USRTK: MDL Monsanto Glyphosate Cancer Case Key Documents and Analysis
  • EcoWatch: Internal EPA Docs Show Scramble for Data on Monsanto’s Roundup
  • Huffington Post: New Monsanto Papers Add to Questions of Regulatory Collusion, Scientific Mischief
  • Huffington Post: Monsanto Weed Killer Deserves Deeper Scrutiny as Scientific Manipulation Revealed
  • USRTK: Questions about Monsanto, EPA Collusion Raised in Cancer Lawsuits
  • USRTK: Monsanto and EPA Want to Keep Talks Secret on Glyphosate Cancer Review
  • The Hill: Serious Scrutiny Needed a EPA Seeks Input on Cancer Ties to Monsanto Herbicide
  • USRTK: EPA Bows to Chemical Industry Pressure in Glyphosate Review
  • USRTK: Upcoming EPA Meetings On Glyphosate Drawing Scrutiny

Disney Corporate Funded Food Research

  • STAT: Disney, Fearing a Scandal, Tried to Press Journal to Withdraw Research Paper
  • Orlando Sentinel: Disney Nutrition Study Underscores Controversy in Corporate-Funded Research
  • Inverse: Disney Parks Study Shows Problems with Corporate Science, Not Hot Dogs
  • Marion Nestle: Strange story of my accepted but yet-to-be-published commentary on Disney-sponsored study gets stranger

Synthetic Biology / Gene Editing

  • USRTK: Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents, monocrops
  • USRTK: Is Cargill’s new stevia plant the ‘farm’ of the future?
  • USRTK: Cargill’s Stevia Hoodwinks Consumers
  • EcoWatch: Impossible Burger and the road to consumer distrust
  • Common Ground magazine: Are you ready for the new wave of genetically engineered foods?
  • Huffington Post: GMOs 2.0 Coming Your Way: Will They Be Labeled? Q&A with Consumers Union Senior Scientist Michael Hansen on synthetic biology, GMOs 2.0, labeling and the future of food
  • Huffington Post: Meet the New Stevia: Synthetic Biology GMOs 2.0 Get Dressed for Success

Journalists and Media

  • The Progressive: Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media
  • BMJ: Coca-Cola’s secret influence on medical and science journalists
  • USRTK press release: BMJ reveals secret industry funding of reporting, based on USRTK documents
  • USRTK: Journalists Fail to Reveal Sources Funded by Coca-Cola
  • USRTK: Journalists Failed to Disclose Sources’ Funding From Monsanto

Keith Kloor

  • USRTK fact sheet: Keith Kloor: the agrichemical industry’s favorite write
  • Huffington Post: Keith Kloor’s Endearing Love Affair with GMOs: New York University’s adjunct journalism professor has curious ideas about science and journalism
  • USRTK: Journalists Mentioned in our FOIA Requests
  • Polluter Watch: Keith Kloor

Tamar Haspel (Washington Post)

  • USRTK fact sheet: How Tamar Haspel misleads readers of the Washington Post
  • The Progressive: Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media
  • FAIR: Buckraking on the Food Beat: When Is It a Conflict of Interest?
  • FAIR: Washington Post’s Food Columnist Goes to Bat for Monsanto
  • USRTK: Journalists Mentioned in Our FOIA Requests

Kate Kelland (Reuters)

  • USRTK: Reuters’ Kate Kelland Again Promotes False Narrative About IARC and Glyphosate Cancer Concerns
  • FAIR: Reuters vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?
  • USRTK: Reuters’ Kate Kelland IARC Story Promotes False Narrative
  • Huffington Post: Monsanto’s Spin Doctors Target Cancer Scientist in Flawed Reuters Story

Jennifer Kahn (UC Berkeley, New York Times)

  • USRTK: Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ NYT article is propaganda, not journalism

Amy Harmon (New York Times)

  • USRTK: Journalists Mentioned in Our FOIA Requests

Reports

  • Seedy Business: What Big Food is Hiding with its Slick PR Campaign on GMOs
  • Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food

Right to Know Review Newsletter

On Freedom of Information and Disclosure

USRTK FOIA page: Defending our right to know

Freedom of the Press Foundation: How corporations suppress disclosure of public records about themselves

The Hill: How Freedom Falls: Broken FOIA Far From Healing as US Agencies Cheat Public

Los Angeles Times: In Science, Follow the Money – If You Can

New York Times: Scientists, Give Up Your Emails

Nature Biotechnology: Standing Up for Transparency

Ralph Nader: Monsanto and its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information

SARS-CoV-2 and Biohazards Investigation

In 2020, U.S. Right to Know launched a biohazards investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and to research accidents, leaks and other mishaps at laboratories where pathogens of pandemic potential are stored and modified, and the health risks of gain-of-function (GOF) research. For more information.

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