Val Giddings: Top Operative for the Agrichemical Industry
Val Giddings, PhD, is a key player in agrichemical industry efforts to oppose transparency and safety regulations for genetically engineered foods and pesticides. Emails obtained by U.S. Right to...
November 9, 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
Jon Entine’s Genetic Literacy Project: PR Messengers for Monsanto, Bayer and the Chemical Industry
Jon Entine is the founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, a key partner in Monsanto's public relations efforts to protect and defend agrichemical products. Entine portrays...
October 7, 2018
Alison Van Eenennaam: key outside spokesperson and lobbyist for the agrichemical and GMO industries
Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD, a cooperative extension specialist in animal genomics and biotechnology at the University of California, Davis, is a leading promoter of genetically engineered animals,...
October 5, 2018
Secret Documents Expose Monsanto’s War on Cancer Scientists
By Stacy Malkan (updated May 17, 2019) DeWayne Johnson, a 46-year-old father dying of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, was the first person to face Monsanto in trial last June over allegations the company...
October 1, 2018
How Tamar Haspel Misleads Readers of the Washington Post
Tamar Haspel is a freelance journalist who has been writing monthly food columns for the Washington Post since October 2013. Haspel’s columns frequently promote and defend agrichemical industry...
August 23, 2018
A Story Behind the Monsanto Cancer Trial — Journal Sits on Retraction
What "ghostwriting" by Monsanto means, how it has influenced, and still is influencing, material found in peer-reviewed scientific...
August 22, 2018
The American Council on Science and Health is a Corporate Front Group
Updated in July 2019 The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) calls itself a "pro-science consumer advocacy organization" and media outlets often quote the group as an independent science...
August 12, 2018
The misleading and deceitful ways of Dr. Kevin Folta
Kevin Folta, Ph.D., professor and chairman of the Horticulture Sciences Department at University of Florida, has provided inaccurate information and engaged in misleading activities in his efforts to...
August 1, 2018