Nature journal adds “Editor’s note” highlighting concerns about the reliability of study linking pangolin coronaviruses to origin of SARS-CoV-2

On November 9, 2020, U.S. Right to Know released emails with senior authors of Liu et al. and Xiao et al., and staff and editors at PLoS Pathogens and Nature journals. These studies have provided...

November 12, 2020

Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded another $10 million last week to the controversial Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign housed at Cornell that trains fellows in...

September 30, 2020

Cornell Alliance for Science is a PR Campaign for the Agrichemical Industry

Despite its academic-sounding name and affiliation with an Ivy League institution, the Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) is a public relations campaign funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates...

September 23, 2020

International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a Food Industry Lobby Group

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, with 17 affiliated chapters around the world. ILSI describes itself as a group...

September 21, 2020

Vermont Supreme Court to Hear FOI Case about Professor’s Food Industry Group Documents

Media Advisory For Immediate Release: Thursday, September 10, 2020 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (415) 944-7350 What: The Vermont Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in U.S....

September 10, 2020

Key pesticide industry PR group CBI closes; GMO Answers moves to CropLife

The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI), a major public relations initiative launched two decades ago by leading agrichemical companies to persuade the public to accept GMOs and pesticides,...

September 2, 2020

Mark Lynas’ inaccurate, deceptive promotions for the agrichemical 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 Gates...

August 8, 2020

Gates Foundation’s ‘Failing’ Green Revolution in Africa: New Report 

New research from the Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute finds the billion-dollar Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa is not living up to its promises  A longer version of...

July 29, 2020

Corporate influence at the University of Saskatchewan: Professor Peter Phillips and his secret “right to know symposium”

Tens of thousands of pages of internal documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know via public records requests reveal the close – and often secret – ties between Monsanto, its PR groups, and a group...

June 11, 2020

Tracking the Pesticide Industry Propaganda Network

Just four corporations now control more than 60% of the global supply of seeds and pesticides. Public oversight of their activities is crucial for a safe and healthy food supply. Yet all these...

June 2, 2020