Documenting the history of pesticide hazards in the United States
Jonathan R Latham, PhD Co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and Editor of the Independent Science News website. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology.
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In their latest attempt to shield Monsanto from accountability, House Republicans have seized upon the flawed and biased reporting of a Reuters journalist whose work has emerged as a key lobbying tool for the embattled agrichemical company as it faces lawsuits, regulatory threats and a wave of awful press coverage about allegations of improper influence over research.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/republicans-rush-monsantos-aid-industry-biased-reuters-report
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Todd Zwillich of WNYC interviews Dr Jonathan Latham on the meaning of the Poison Papers
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A 30-year U.S. Environmental Protection Agency senior official is leaving federal service today convinced that her agency is being steered in a disastrously wrong direction, according to her farewell message posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). She is an eyewitness to the wreckage wreaked by Administrator Scott Pruitt and his cadre of political appointees.
https://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/dissent-inside-epa-deepens.html
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Stacy Malkan on the steady attacks on IARC for its calling glyphosate a “possible carcinogen”.
“One key weapon in industry’s arsenal has been the reporting of Kate Kelland, a veteran Reuters reporter based in London.
With two industry-fed scoops and a special report, reinforced by her regular beat reporting, Kelland has aimed a torrent of critical reporting at the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), portraying the group and its scientists as out of touch and unethical, and leveling accusations about conflicts of interest and suppressed information in their decision-making.”
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Reuters vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?
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Monsanto Co. and friends this week dropped a bombshell on opponents who are seeking to prove that the company’s beloved Roundup herbicide causes cancer. They accuse Roundup opponents, via a Reuters article, of concealing information as they all worked together assessing the herbicide glyphosate for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
Authored by Reuters’ reporter Kate Kelland, who has a history of cozy relations with a group partly funded by agrichemical company interests, the piece accused a top epidemiologist from the U.S. National Cancer Institute of failing to share “important” scientific data with other scientists as they all worked together assessing the herbicide glyphosate for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
The target of this accusation is Aaron Blair who led the IARC analysis and it was shared on media around the globe. The Reuters story has many flaws, however, including that its main “independent” source someone who is a paid consultant of Monsanto.
https://www.ecowatch.com/reuters-glyphosate-cancer-2444376172.html