Month: March 2023

‘They should do decent science’: Report on raccoon dogs and Covid origins spurs ethics flap

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A team of Western virologists could face professional penalties for scooping data collected by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in their rush to call attention to their own rapid reanalysis — an analysis at odds with the Chinese team’s conclusions.

How pesticide companies dominate Google News searches

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Pesticide companies use stealth tactics to dominate Google News with industry messaging and weaponize the web. Their documents reveal some details about how they do it.

Nutrition Month messaging is good for Big Food’s profits, not for our health  

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This month marks the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 50th annual “Nutrition Month.” But its messaging leaves us craving science-based advice for healthy eating.

Congress clears bill to declassify Wuhan Institute of Virology intel

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The House of Representatives passed a bill 419-0 Friday that would declassify intelligence collected by U.S. agencies related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Congressional memo: Virologists drafted article against the lab leak theory on behalf of Wellcome Trust, NIH

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Virologists who worked to squelch consideration of a lab origin of COVID-19 in early 2020 worked in tandem with leaders in scientific research funding, according to private emails.

Tracking the pesticide industry propaganda network

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Our series of fact sheets shines light on the pesticide industry’s hidden propaganda network: the front groups, academics, journalists and others the pesticide companies rely on for their PR and product-defense campaigns.  

Oxford Real Farming Conference: The dirty truth about pesticides

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Stacy Malkan, co-founder of U.S. Right to Know and author of the report Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide, joined Donald Ikenna Ofoegbu, program coordinator of Heinrich Boell Stiftung and the Alliance for Action on Pesticide in Nigeria, and Josie Cohen, head of policy and campaigns for Pesticide Action Oxford Real Farming Conference: The dirty truth about pesticides