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
GMO Answers is a Crisis Management PR Tool for GMOs & Pesticides
Update May 2018: Tax records show that the Council for Biotechnology Information, a chemical industry trade group, paid Ketchum public relations firm more than $11 million from 2013-2016 to to run...
March 1, 2018
Jon Entine and Genetic Literacy Project Spin Chemical Industry PR
Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is a central player in Monsanto and the agrichemical industry’s public relations efforts to promote genetically engineered foods and...
March 1, 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
Since 2015, U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit consumer and public health watchdog group, has obtained thousands of pages of documents revealing – for the first time – how food and pesticide...
January 22, 2018
Hold the Plum Pudding: US Food Sampling Shows Troubling Pesticide Residues
By Carey Gillam Sometimes the truth about our food is not very appetizing. As many gather this holiday season for shared family meals, it is likely that they'll be serving up small doses of...
December 21, 2017