Stuart Smyth

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

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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 of professors who promote GMOs and pesticides. In one example, the investigation turned up details about Monsanto’s work with Peter Corporate influence at the University of Saskatchewan: Professor Peter Phillips and his secret ‘right to know symposium’

Stuart Smyth: agrichemical industry ties and funding

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Stuart Smyth, PhD, promotes and defends genetically engineered foods and pesticides as an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan. Since 2014, he has held the Industry Funded Research Chair in Agri-Food Innovation. Industry funding Funders (described as “investing partners”) of Smyth’s research chair position include Bayer Stuart Smyth: agrichemical industry ties and funding

Newsweek Gets Ad Money from Bayer, Prints Op-Eds That Help Bayer

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Newsweek failed to disclose the chemical industry connections of two opinion writers who argued today in an op-ed  that glyphosate can’t be regulated. The commentary by Henry I. Miller and Stuart Smyth, both of whom have ties to Monsanto that were not disclosed in the piece, appeared soon after a federal jury handed cancer victim Newsweek Gets Ad Money from Bayer, Prints Op-Eds That Help Bayer