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How journals & academic enablers are corrupting reporting on crop biotechnology - C C - Feb 2, 2024
How four obstructionist journals and their academic enablers are corrupting reporting on the science of chemicals and crop biotechnology
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/01/30/viewpoint-whitewash-the-corruption-of-reporting-on-the-science-of-chemicals-and-crop-biotechnology-by-four-obstructionist-journals-and-their-academic-enablers/
INTRO: This is a story about how a small but dogged group of ‘environmental’ scientists and university professors have perfected the art of manipulating journalists into misreporting the sustainable benefits of agricultural biotechnology. It’s about the corruption by academic journals that help perpetuate misinformation.
It’s about how government officials, who should be acting in the public’s interest, often align themselves with tort lawyers who funnel ‘dark money’ to environmental groups to spread disinformation about genetically engineered crops and agricultural chemicals. And it exposes new evidence of the willingness of government officials to mislead the public and sell out conventional science—and the public they are supposed to be representing and protecting.
Let’s call this story: Whitewash—with self-proclaimed environmentalists wearing the black hats... (MORE - details)