(UPDATED June 5 with comment from Scientific Reports) The authors of a newly published paper examining the impacts of exposure to the world’s most widely used herbicide declared some shocking...
June 5, 2019
Bayer’s Shady PR Firms: FleishmanHillard, Ketchum, FTI Consulting
In the latest PR scandal to engulf Bayer, journalists at Le Monde reported May 9 that they obtained a "Monsanto File" created by the public relations firm FleishmanHillard listing a "multitude of...
May 21, 2019
Don’t weaken the California Public Records Act
Update: On May 2nd, Assemblymember Laura Friedman announced that she will not advance the legislation to the Assembly floor in 2019. U.S. Right to Know opposes AB 700, legislation to weaken the...
May 7, 2019
State public records laws help uncover wrongdoing at public universities
See our post about why journalism and public interest groups are opposing AB700. Legislation is pending in the California Assembly (AB700) to weaken the California Public Records Act by...
April 19, 2019
Monsanto Relied on These “Partners” to Attack Top Cancer Scientists
Related: Secret Documents Expose Monsanto's War on Cancer Scientists, by Stacy Malkan This fact sheet describes the contents of Monsanto’s confidential public relations plan to discredit the...
March 31, 2019
Geoffrey Kabat’s Ties to Tobacco and Chemical Industry Groups
Geoffrey Kabat, PhD, is a cancer epidemiologist and author of two books arguing that that health hazards of pesticides, electromagnetic fields, secondhand tobacco smoke and other...
March 7, 2019
Pamela Ronald’s Ties to Chemical Industry Front Groups
Updated in June 2019 Pamela Ronald, PhD, a professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis and author of the 2008 book “Tomorrow’s Table,” is a well-known advocate for...
December 27, 2018
Mark Lynas Promotes the Agrichemical Industry’s Commercial Agenda
Mark Lynas is a former journalist turned promotional advocate for genetically engineered foods and pesticides who makes inaccurate claims about those products from his perch at the Cornell Alliance...
December 19, 2018
Keith Kloor: How a science journalist worked behind the scenes with industry allies
Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and an adjunct journalism faculty member at New York University who has written for Nature, Science Insider, Slate and dozens of articles for Discover...
November 1, 2018
Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Winner: Whitewash by Carey Gillam
Carey Gillam's "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science (Island Press) has received rave reviews since its release last fall and has received several awards for...
October 8, 2018