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</font></div><div><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Exec Director, Genetic Literacy Project; Senior Fellow, </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">World Food Center Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">University of California-Davis</span></b></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Real Cost Of Mandatory GMO Labeling</font></div><div>Posted: 12/23/2015 9:55 am EST Updated: 12/23/2015 9:59 am EST</div><div>
</div><div>Co-authored by Bruce <b>Chassy</b> and Jon Entine</div><div>
</div><div>This is Part II of a III part series. Part I: "Although Some GMO Sympathizers Embrace Mandatory Labeling, It's A Disaster In Waiting", is readable here.</div><div>
</div><div>Proponents of mandatory labeling often claim that it's a no brainer....</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>NaturalNews)</b> Forbes.com contributing writer Jon Entine, long known as a biotech shill and pesticide apologist, committed physical violence against his wife and psychologically traumatized his own daughter, according to court documents now revealed in this comprehensive, five-part investigative article by </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Natural News</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The documents, shown below, reveal how his wife pleaded for court protection against </span><b>domestic violence and child abuse</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and sought a restraining order against Entine to halt Jon Entine from "physically, verbally and / or psychologically abusing, annoying, harassing or injuring" herself or their young female daughter.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine has professional ties to Monsanto, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Proctor & Gamble and other similar corporations. [1] He is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a research fellow at George Mason University, and was a paid lecturer at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Entine is a key "attack operative" for the biotech industry well known for authoring wildly defamatory character assassination articles to target GMO skeptics and scientists who disagree with the biotech industry's contrived safety claims.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With the help of Forbes.com and the American Enterprise Institute -- both key players in attacking and smearing GMO skeptics and scientists -- Entine has been instrumental in viciously smearing the reputations of numerous scientists, activists, independent journalists and environmentalists, usually through the use of wildly fraudulent smear tactics and the wholesale fabrication of false "facts" which he weaves into deranged articles.</span>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine's double life now comes to the surface</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As you will learn in the investigative article you are now reading, it turns out that Jon Entine has been leading a double life. In one life, he presents himself as an upstanding, award-winning journalist and research fellow with a well-credentialed resume. But in his secret life -- now painstakingly revealed by </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Natural News</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in this comprehensive investigative report -- </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jon Entine is described by his own wife as a <b>belligerent, violent, mentally unstable individual who committed acts of violence against his wife</b>, psychologically traumatized his own daughter, installed surveillance equipment to spy on his wife's activities, attempted to compel his wife's therapist to testify against her in court, treacherously interfered with his wife's professional activities </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and engaged in a bizarre series of other reprehensible activities that no woman or daughter should ever have to endure.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is the true story of a biotech industry apologist and hit piece character assassin who made the mistake of attacking a woman who had the strength and courage to record his aggressions in sworn court documents now acquired by Natural News. Those documents, revealed here, tell the story of the desperate survival of a woman and her daughter who escaped the grip of a deranged individual who has long served as the poster boy for a biotech industry steeped in threats, intimidation and fraud.</span>
<i>NOTE: To protect the privacy of the child, her name has been altered in this article to "Jenny." This is not her real name, and she is an innocent victim in what unfolded. Natural News asks that other media outlets respect the privacy of this minor and refrain from publishing her real name in plain text. We also ask that you respect the privacy of the wife, Ellen Turner, who was herself victimized beyond belief as you are about to learn here.</i>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Pushed her, shoved her, gouged her eye, choked her..."</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted on the </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine page of Truthwiki.org</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, an exhaustive series of publicly-available PDF documents from the courts of Hamilton County, Ohio state that Jon Entine physically assaulted his wife. He "...became very belligerent and aggressive toward Plaintiff [his wife]. He pushed her, shoved her, gouged her eye, choked her and pushed her into the porch column. He slammed the door and refused to release [their daughter]. Plaintiff finally called the Indian Hill Rangers..." (See screen shots below from the court documents provided under oath...)</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SOURCE: </span><a href="http://testtruthwikiorg.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Entine-Divorce-Group-12.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine public divorce document #12</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> which begins with </span><b>Case # DR0500131</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><b>File # E233969</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the </span><i>Court of Common Pleas</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Hamilton County, Ohio. See </span><b>page 19</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of the PDF document.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Entine's wife, Ellen Turner, then sought a court order requiring </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Jon_Entine.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to attend "anger management classes." She further described Entine as "irrational and unpredictable" and warned the courts that his bizarre behavior "appears to be escalating." (See court documents below.)</span>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eyes gouged... choked and shoved...</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here's the screen shot from the court document describing how Jon Entine violently attacked his wife and held his own daughter captive from her:</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Condensed screen shot)</span>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Choked-Wife-Anger-Management3.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The following paragraph, also found in the court document PDFs shown on the </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine Truthwiki page</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, revealed how Ellen Turner was "assaulted by [Jon Entine]. This occurred in the presence of [their daughter] who has been psychologically traumatized as a result. [Daughter] is afraid of [Jon Entine]... he has become increasingly and exceedingly hostile and belligerent. [The wife] fears that [Entine's] mental health has deteriorated..."</span>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Mental-Health-Belligerant2.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SOURCE: </span><a href="http://testtruthwikiorg.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Entine-Divorce-Group-12.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine public divorce document #12</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Indeed, this pattern of belligerent, violent behavior is exactly what we find reflected in Jon Entine's activities as a journalist. Myself and other GMO skeptics have been torturously harassed, falsely accused and relentlessly defamed by Jon Entine who has convinced publications like Forbes.com to publish his abusive hit pieces laced with hate-filled false accusations and wholly fabricated claims. By allowing Jon Entine to publish articles on its website, Forbes.com is quite literally condoning a form of deranged hate speech and empowering the voice of a person whose own wife describes him as committing violence against women and engaging in domestic violence and child abuse. (See court documents, below.)</span>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Restraining orders from a terrified wife</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine's public court documents describe Entine as a deranged, mentally unstable individual who routinely uses belligerence and threats to bully his selected enemies (or destroy them).</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January of 2005, Entine's then wife Ellen Turner sought a restraining order against him that demanded he refrain from physically injuring her person or abusing their child:</span>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Restraining-Order-Header.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The order states: (abbreviated)</span>
<i>WHEREBY, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
Defendant, Jon H. Entine is restrained from:
Physically, verbally and / or psychologically abusing, annoying, harassing or injuring [Ellen Turner] or the minor child of the parties...</i>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Restraining-Order-Physically-Abusing-Daughter.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SOURCE: </span><a href="http://testtruthwikiorg.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Entine-Divorce-Group-22.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine public divorce document #22</a>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Domestic violence / child abuse provisions invoked by Jon Entine's wife</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following the violent attacks described under oath by Jon Entine's wife, she pleaded with the courts to protect herself and her daughter from any further violence, court documents show.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Filed with Hamilton County Clerk Gergory Hartmann, Case # DR0500131, Ellen Turner asserted: (bold added)</span>
<i>I have filed at 3109.27 Affidavit and have specifically addressed therein the <b>child abuse / neglect / domestic violence physical harm provisions</b> of O.R.C. 3109.04, 3109.051 and 3109.052 as those statutes pertain to both parents and this case.</i>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-domestic-violence-child-abuse-provisions2.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SOURCE: </span><a href="http://testtruthwikiorg.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Entine-Divorce-Group-23.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine public divorce document #23</a>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Court documents verified as authentic and genuine</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Through careful validation, Natural News has </span><b>confirmed the authenticity of the public court documents shown here</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. These documents are genuine, the case numbers are real, and the domestic violence history involving Jon Entine is a matter of public record. Any reporter or investigator can verify the full authenticity of these documents with the courts of Hamilton County, Ohio, located at 1000 Main St, Cincinnati, OH 45202, with Tracy Winkler as the Clerk of Courts.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The authenticity of the case number cited here is easily confirmed online by visiting the </span><a href="http://www.courtclerk.org/case.asp" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Hamilton County Courthouse at this web link</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and entering case # </span><b>DR0500131</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> which is clearly recorded in the unaltered PDF documents linked throughout this investigative report.</span>
<a href="http://www.courtclerk.org/case_summary.asp?sec=party&casenumber=DR0500131" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">This link at the Hamilton County Courthouse</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> further confirms the authenticity of the case number and the names of the parties involved. </span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition, </span><a href="http://www.courtclerk.org/cpciv_index_summary.asp?ENTINE+JON+H" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">this search URL at the Hamilton County Courthouse</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> confirms multiple case numbers on file involving Jon Entine, including Entine's attempted lawsuit against Bruce Humbert found </span><a href="http://www.courtclerk.org/case_summary.asp?casenumber=A%200603809" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">at this link</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and described in more detail in a later part of this investigative series.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let there be no mistake that the documents presented in this investigative report have been thoroughly vetted and confirmed as authentic and are </span><b>a matter of public record</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> involving Jon H. Entine, the same Jon Entine who functions as a biotech shill and character assassination operative. Natural News has confirmed that all documents were publicly available from the Ohio court system. Most of the documents cited here have since been "blocked by order of the court," no doubt in an effort to prevent this true story outlined here from being told.</span>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This investigative report continues in part two</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047666_Jon_Entine_child_abuse_court_documents.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Click here to read Part Two of this investigative report at Natural News</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which reveals even more details about Jon Entine.</span>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTICE: NO THREATENING COMMENTS ALLOWED</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Anyone posting comments to this article threatening Jon Entine with violence or harm will be banned and their comment will be deleted. We do not condone nor will we tolerate any calls for violence appearing on this forum. Any threats made against Natural News or the Health Ranger for publishing this story will be captured and turned over to the FBI for investigation.</i>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sources and resources</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[1] </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine page on Natural News:</span>
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Jon_Entine.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.naturalnews.com/Jon_Entine.html</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine page on The Propagandists:</span>
<a href="http://www.propagandists.org/propagandists/jon-entine/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.propagandists.org/propagandists/j...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spinwatch article on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/science/item/164-smelling-a-corporate-rat" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/sc...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GM Watch article on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/14800" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/20...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Refusers page on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/meet-jon-entine-pro-monsanto-gmo-activist-and-pro-bill-gates-activist" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/mee...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lorna Salzman page on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwritings/unwise.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwriting...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GMO Evidence:</span>
<a href="http://www.gmoevidence.com/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.gmoevidence.com</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GMO Seralini:</span>
<a href="http://www.gmoseralini.org/en/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.gmoseralini.org/en/</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Judy Carman website on GMOs:</span>
<a href="http://www.gmojudycarman.org/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.gmojudycarman.org</a>
Learn more: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047665_Jon_Entine_domestic_violence_Forbes.html#ixzz3lkDkFPh7" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none;">http://www.naturalnews.com/047665_Jon_Entine_domestic_violence_Forbes.html#ixzz3lkDkFPh7</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pt 2 divoce left out</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fired by ABC news, characterized as "out of control"</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine's court-recorded descriptions of violent and aggressive behavior towards his own wife appears to reflect a similar pattern of behavior he exhibits in his character assassination journalism efforts, often published by Forbes.com. As explained on </span><a href="http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwritings/unwise.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">LornaSalzman.com</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> [2]:</span>
<i>In a letter from London's The Sunday Times, the Deputy Editor explains how his paper was misled by Entine and how he misrepresented himself. "We now know what we did not know then: ABC discovered Entine had made a number of mistakes in his methodology so serious that they had in effect fired him some ten days before. Entine, probably unknown to ABC, was however still picking up his messages from a phone on his old desk in the ABC building. We now understand from ABC sources that Entine is regarded as out of control and has been running around saying some wild things" (Ivan Fallon, letter from Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times, October 8, 1993).</i>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-out-of-control.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Being "out of control," however, seems to be routine for Entine. As </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">TruthWiki</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> explains:</span>
<i>Entine knowingly and repeatedly publishes false and fictitious information in mainstream publications including Forbes.com, and his posts are often retracted after being challenged on their lack of factual basis. His actions against targeted individuals or companies are systematically abusive and resemble "revenge journalism." Entine takes a "hit man" approach to single out individuals - especially critics of GMOs - for accusations and abuse, often calling them names or implying they are sociopaths or a danger to society.</i>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine stages manufacturing violation then calls the FDA, then cites his own contrived staging as evidence against the company - report</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Entine has achieved some success in destroying his intended targets, reportedly having bankrupted a company called The Body Shop through an elaborate scheme to defame and destroy the company (this reflects the same tactics he uses against GMO skeptics) by staging a shampoo spill on the factory floor, then calling the FDA to report the very manufacturing violation that he caused. He then reportedly cited this FDA safety violation in a disparaging hit piece that caused the company's stock price to implode.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As published on LornaSalzman.com: [2]</span>
<i>Jay Harris of Mother Jones magazine reports that Entine called him and that "he began our conversation with a 20-minute rant about The Body Shop being the most evil company (he had) ever encountered in 20 years of investigative reporting". Harris goes on: "...This guy is talking about a company that spilled a few gallons of Fuzzy Peach Shampoo. He clearly had an axe to grind and was willing to let that take precedence over the facts."
In Entine's TBS attack, he referred to a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of a small shampoo spill from TBS' New Jersey operations. But he failed to say that <b>it was HE who called in the complaint (later whiting out his name, a fact he concealed)</b>, that FDA found the TBS facility to actually be well-run, and that FDA, upon completing all inspections, is bound by law to make recommendations regardless of how clean the facility may be. (FDA Report Summary of Findings, 1123).</i>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Staged-FDA-complaint.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In other words, Jon Entine appears to use extremely deceptive tactics to even </span><i>cause</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> violations that he then cites to attack the business targets he is trying to destroy. He appears to operate as a </span><i>corporate saboteur</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and character assassination operative, and there seem to be no limits to the level of deception, dishonesty and ethical violations he will apparently pursue in order to attempt to disparage his intended targets while publicly positioning himself as a responsible journalist through outlets such as Forbes.com.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to an article in <i>The Independent</i> [3], Entine invoked his customary defamation accusations by calling Anita Roddick, the founder of The Body Shop, a "schizophrenic and a sociopath."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The article goes on to say, "Yesterday's statement also accused him of pestering Anita Roddick at home, a claim Mr. Entine denies."</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This claim that Entine would pursue Anita Roddick at home is consistent with the kind of vengeance-oriented mindset and pattern of threats and violence described in Jon Entine's divorce documents, covered in </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047665_Jon_Entine_domestic_violence_Forbes.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part One of this article</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and linked in Part Five. Whether his intended enemy is his wife, a GMO skeptic or a woman-owned corporation, Entine seems to invoke a pattern of some of the most reprehensible and unethical tactics imaginable to disparage and defame his intended targets.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His corporate destruction "achievements" are even bragged about in another document from his divorce, which explains that one of Entine's articles which resulted in him being threatened with defamation lawsuits </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"sent the stock price of the subject company plummeting by more than $500 million." </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That company was, of course, The Body Shop, founded by Anita Roddick, yet another women who fell victim to Jon Entine's apparent pattern of targeting women with abusive accusations and defamation hit pieces.</span>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Defamation-Lawsuits.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keep all this in mind when you remember that Jon Entine is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and has similar ties to George Mason University. Does the AEI share Jon Entine's lack of ethics and devious tactics? Or was the AEI somehow not aware of the real character of this person who, according to court documents, physically and violently attacks his own wife and traumatizes his own daughter?</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Does George Mason University condone the kind of violence against women described in Entine's divorce documents? If not, will GMU strip Entine of his fellowship, or will the university stand behind this man and sanction his erratic behavior as a shining example of GMU's core principles? It will be interesting to see what George Mason University does in response to the real history of Jon Entine now going public.</span>
</font><h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This investigative report on Jon Entine continues in Part Three</font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://naturalnews.com/047667_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_wife_abuser.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Click here to read Part Three of this comprehensive investigative report on Jon Entine</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As explained on the </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine page at TruthWiki.org</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span>
Entine has also worked to undermine Saralini on Wikipedia, using the handle "runjonrun". GM Watch was alerted by Wikipedia users to the fact that Entine was one of the early editors on a one-sided and originally potentially libellous Wikipedia article called "The Seralini affair", which denigrated Seralini's study and Seralini himself.
Entine, under the Wiki user name "runjonrun", was active in vandalizing the article by rapidly deleting balancing information, for example, about the scientific support for Seralini's study and the conflicts of interest among critics of the study.
In a previous Wiki spat, "runjonrun" had revealed his true identity as Jon Entine after upsetting other Wiki users by allegedly contravening Wiki conflict of interest guidelines and vandalising articles without justification.
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SOURCE: </span><a href="http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/14800" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">GMwatch.org</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> [2]</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GM Watch goes on to explain:</span>
<i>We were alerted by Wikipedia users to the fact that Entine was one of the early editors on a one-sided and originally potentially libellous Wikipedia article called "The Seralini affair", which denigrated Seralini's study and Seralini himself.
Entine, under the Wiki user name "runjonrun", was active in vandalising the article by rapidly deleting balancing information, for example, about the scientific support for Seralini's study and the conflicts of interest among critics of the study.</i>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an article entitled, "Smelling a Corporate Rat,"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> SpinWatch.org also describes how Jon Entine, Henry Miller and Forbes.com staged a wave of attack pieces in an attempt to destroy the credibility of the Seralini study:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> [3]</span>
Another key player in whipping up hostility to the paper was the American business magazine Forbes.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In the ten days following the study's release, Forbes published no less than six separate attack pieces targeting not just the research but also the researchers. </span>The first two pieces drew extensively on the quotes from the<b> Science Media Centre </b>and ran with them, but the Forbes piece that grabbed the most attention, particularly on social media, was one that kicked off with a headline that labeled the paper a fraud. The article went on to accuse Prof. Seralini not just of "gross scientific misconduct" but also of having "a long and sordid history" of "activism". The article concluded by bluntly telling the editors of Food and Chemical Toxicology that the only "honorable course of action for the journal would be to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">retract</span> the paper immediately".
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition to content vandalism, Entine also invokes truly despicable tactics to try to frame his opponents as criminals. To accomplish this, Entine selects GMO activists as targets, then he</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>attempts to find criminal records of other people in the United States who share the same names</b>. Entine then publishes content that imply the activists are criminals while touting the criminal records of someone who is entirely different. EG?</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is done knowingly and maliciously by Entine, who appears to be willing to use any tactic whatsoever to disparage his enemies and selected targets, all while enjoying the publicity of his articles being published on Forbes.com, the Huffington Post, the American Enterprise Institute and other websites.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Forbes.com seems to be especially willing to run Jon Entine's articles, especially ones that attack GMO skeptics and activists with disparaging misinformation and false accusations. There is little question that Forbes.com seems so motivated to push the interests of the biotech industry that it will even allow a man </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047666_Jon_Entine_child_abuse_court_documents.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">whose own wife describes him as committing domestic violence and child abuse</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to post defamatory hit pieces on its website as long as these articles attack critics of the biotech industry.</span>
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Learn more: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047667_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_wife_abuser.html#ixzz3lkF3iSNy" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none;">http://www.naturalnews.com/047667_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_wife_abuser.html#ixzz3lkF3iSNy</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><h1><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">An insidious master of defamation and character assassination</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of Jon Entine's behavioral patterns is to engineer wildly defamatory articles to be published in the media -- including Forbes.com -- knowing that those articles will likely result in him being sued.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The following screen shot of the divorce documents reveals how Jon Entine caused the stock price of a company he sought to destroy to plummet by $500 million even as he was expecting to be sued for defamation. This is a company he reportedly sabotaged to stage a production floor violation that he then used to call the FDA to report the violation! (This is all detailed in </span><a href="http://naturalnews.com/047667_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_wife_abuser.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part Three of this investigative article series</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.)</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Entine's work is described in the statement below as an "explosive investigatory article" but we now know it fits his pattern of a false, defamatory hit piece unleashed as an editorial weapon for the purpose of destroying a targeted company:</span>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Defamation-Lawsuits.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SOURCE: </span><a href="http://testtruthwikiorg.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Entine-Divorce-Group-17.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine divorce document #17</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another screen shot from the documents reveals how Entine knows in advance that the publication of his articles will result in him being sued for defamation:</span>
<i>JON is writing a controversial article for Vanity Fair Magazine, for which he anticipates that he will be sued for defamation.</i>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Vanity-Fair-Article-Defamation.jpg" border="0" />
<h1><font size="4">Entine threatens the credibility of George Mason University</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As published on the </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Truthwiki.org Jon Entine page</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Arthur E. Berman, a petroleum geologist and consultant to the energy sector; editorial board member of The Oil Drum; Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin; Director of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil, wrote a letter to George Mason University dated July 4, 2011, that he also posted online on his blog, in which he sought to refute claims and assertions made by Jon Entine in his Real Clear Politics column published a few days earlier, on July 1, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Natural Gas "Bubble" Report: Market Tinkering or Shoddy Reporting?"</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Berman writes:</span>
<i>His post contains errors, exaggerations and untrue statements that cannot be substantiated, and thereby jeopardize George Mason University's legal position and reputation as an honest broker of information.
I demand that Mr. Entine post public corrections to the many incorrect and unsubstantiated claims that he makes in this post. I further request that he write to me directly acknowledging that his post contained the many incorrect and undocumented claims that I specify below. He never contacted me or my clients to verify these claims and, apparently, did no research to document his many specious allegations.'</i>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Berman then goes on to list the errors, exaggerations and statements he says are untrue. [2]</span>
<h1><font size="4">Entine attempts to sue others for merely questioning his qualifications</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In his customary role of a belligerent bully as abundantly shown in parts One, Two and Three of this investigative series, Jon Entine threatens to sue others who merely call into question his own qualifications for things like giving speeches.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The following court document describes how</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Entine unsuccessfully attempted to sue a man named Bruce Humbert who questioned Entine's qualifications in an email to colleagues.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Entine claimed that "one email sent by Humbert to the organizers of a lunchtime forum for public-relations professionals was</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> defamatory and has resulted in actionable injury</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to his reputation and to his consulting business. ... He brought these claims against Humbert for defamation, invasion of privacy, tortuous interference with business relationships, and intentional infliction of emotional distress."[humbert wins, entine could not prove damage]</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Condensed screen shot)</span>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-Lawsuit-Bruce-Humbert.jpg" border="0" />
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fascinatingly, these are precisely the sorts of things Jon Entine commits against others. He knowingly defames people and spreads false information to destroy their reputations. He interferes with their business practices and inflicts emotional distress. </span><b>The very things Jon Entine accused Humbert of committing are the same tactics used by Entine himself</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> against GMO skeptics and scientists like Seralini.</span>
<h1><font size="4">Entine is an apologist for deadly chemicals like atrazine</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As this investigative report clearly shows, Jon Entine is willing to fabricate false evidence, deliberately falsify "facts" to disparage his targets, invoke knowingly false allegations and engage in a vast array of contemptible violations of journalism ethics in order to destroy the reputations of his intended targets. According to his own wife's sworn court documents, </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047665_Jon_Entine_domestic_violence_Forbes.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Jon Entine engaged in domestic violence, child abuse, and attacked his wife by gouging her eye and choking her, then throwing her</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Entine is also an apologist for deadly chemicals that threaten life and poison humanity. Those chemicals, it turns out, are another form of violence against women, men and children.</span>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/02/11277/syngenta-pr%E2%80%99s-weed-killer-spin-machine-investigating-press-and-shaping-news-about" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">This excellent article on PR Watch</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> reveals Jon Entine's involvement in the greenwashing of atrazine, a deadly pesticide chemical which Entine implies is completely harmless.</span>
<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/c/c2/Syn_email_WHWG_Roundup_memo.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">This collection of unsealed court documents</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> reveals the key players of the "pesticide apologist gang" -- called the "White House Writers Group" -- who were all part of a coordinated effort to spread the message that atrazine is harmless by invoking phrases like "sound science."</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">• John Stossel, whom Jon Entine partners with to broadcast GMO corporate propaganda.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">• the American Enterprise Institute, where Entine is a research fellow.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">• the Pacific Research Institute.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> John </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Miller, a pro-GMO scientist who was a key figure in lying to California voters to defeat the GMO labeling ballot measure there.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">• "Highly influential Washington insiders and policy leaders."</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The effort also involved the American Council for Science and Health (ACSH). ACSH has been called "a receptacle for payments from pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, food and other companies who appreciate the convenience of having their grantees and former employees serve on government science panels," by Michael Jacobsen, the Director of the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Science in the Public Interest</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. (</span><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/02/11277/syngenta-pr%E2%80%99s-weed-killer-spin-machine-investigating-press-and-shaping-news-about" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">SOURCE</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A far more detailed list is revealed in </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/files/100reporters-syngenta-clare-howard-investigation.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">this PDF document which shows the Syngenta P.R. team outreach list</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. This list includes the American Enterprise Institute and a long list of corporate front group non-profits and universities whose "scientists" are shills for the biotech industry.</span>
<h1><font size="4">This investigative report on Jon Entine continues in Part Five</font></h1><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047685_Jon_Entine_violence_against_women_hate_speech.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Click here to continue with Part Five of this comprehensive investigative report by Natural News</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>
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<h1><font size="4">Sources and resources</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[1] </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[2] </span><a href="http://petroleumtruthreport.blogspot.com/2011/07/letter-to-george-mason-university-re.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://petroleumtruthreport.blogspot.com/201...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine page on Natural News:</span>
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Jon_Entine.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.naturalnews.com/Jon_Entine.html</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine page on The Propagandists:</span>
<a href="http://www.propagandists.org/propagandists/jon-entine/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.propagandists.org/propagandists/j...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spinwatch article on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/science/item/164-smelling-a-corporate-rat" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/sc...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GM Watch article on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/14800" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/20...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Refusers page on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/meet-jon-entine-pro-monsanto-gmo-activist-and-pro-bill-gates-activist" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/mee...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lorna Salzman page on Jon Entine:</span>
<a href="http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwritings/unwise.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwriting...</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GMO Evidence:</span>
<a href="http://www.gmoevidence.com/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.gmoevidence.com</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GMO Seralini:</span>
<a href="http://www.gmoseralini.org/en/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.gmoseralini.org/en/</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Judy Carman website on GMOs:</span>
<a href="http://www.gmojudycarman.org/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.gmojudycarman.org</a>
Learn more: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047668_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_corporate_propaganda.html#ixzz3lkFWgdg2" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none;">http://www.naturalnews.com/047668_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_corporate_propaganda.html#ixzz3lkFWgdg2</a></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>....</div><div><h1><font size="4">Which publications are giving Jon Entine a platform to spread more defamatory lies?</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">• Forbes.com is where Jon Entine gets the most traction. It is noteworthy that</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Forbes Media recently sold the majority of its ownership to Hong Kong-based Integrated Asset Management, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">founded by Tak Cheung Yam, as reported by Breitbart.com [5] Forbes.com, in other words, really is owned by the Chinese.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">• John Stossel has given Jon Entine airtime on Fox News</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to spread corporate biotech junk science on cable television.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">• Real Clear Politics, which is owned in part by Forbes.com, allowed Entine to publish two articles in 2011 but hasn't had him back since.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">• The Huffington Post has allowed Entine to post articles on its site,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> even though HuffPost is primarily a site for progressives who strenuously oppose atrazine, GMOs and corporate dominance of "science."</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">• The American Enterprise Institute gives Entine run of the site, allowing him to post false, defamatory information on the AEI website with no requirement whatsoever for any fact checking.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Entine's lucrative empire includes a media consultancy (clients: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and formerly Monsanto), a pro-chemical book deal with the Monsanto-funded American Council On Science And Health (Paul Offit is on the Board), a GMO media lobbying outfit called The Genetic Literacy Project, a relationship with STATS (George Mason University 'advocate scientific and statistical methods as the best way of analyzing and solving society's problems'), Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Health and Risk Communication (George Mason University) and he is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (with a focus on anti-environmental issues)." reports TheRefusers.com [4]</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The site goes on to point out why Entine has no real credentials to even talk about genetic science:</span>
<i>With all these seemingly professional and academic positions you might assume Entine has ironclad scientific credentials.</i>
<i>You would be wrong.</i>
<i>Science degree? No.</i>
<i>Statistics degree? No.</i>
<i>Medical degree? No.</i>
<i>Media communications degree? No.</i>
<i>Paid activist flack? Yes.</i>
<i>His degree? BA in philosophy.</i>
<i>So what is Entine doing advising the public on medical, statistical and health issues? What is Entine's meal ticket? Why would Bill Gates and Monsanto finance his empire?</i>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Answer: Mainstream media access. Entine was a producer for Tom Brokaw (NBC News) and ABC News. Entine's empire is based on tapping his media background </span><i>to counter consumer resistance to genetically modified products.</i>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response to that piece, reader Judy Frankel posted a comment that resonates with many people of Jewish faith:</span>
<img src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Jon-Entine-reader-comment-Jewish.jpg" border="0" />
<i>I'm so ashamed that Jon is also Jewish. He can be booked for speaking engagements through the Jewish National Fund. I am also Jewish, and I cannot believe that someone as intelligent and obviously hard-working as Jon would want to be a shill for the pro-GMO and pro-glyphosate businesses. All I can say is, I hope he is reincarnated into the world that he's helping to create while those of us who don't want bioengineered life get reincarnated into a world without them. This is a travesty! Shame on you Jon Entine. You give Jewish people a bad reputation, only caring about money and not caring about future generations.</i>
<h1><font size="4">Why Jon Entine is the perfect poster boy for the biotech industry</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All the court documents cited in this investigative series are genuine and can be confirmed by any reporter who does their homework. Links to the Hamilton County Courthouse online document site are detailed in </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047665_Jon_Entine_domestic_violence_Forbes.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part One of this investigation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. These documents unambiguously describe Entine as an unstable, violent and abusive person who attacks his own wife and traumatizes his own daughter.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not coincidentally, Jon Entine is "Exhibit One" for the kind of extreme anger, intimidation, false journalism, recklessness and villainous abandonment of ethics we see throughout the biotech industry itself.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In effect, </span><b>Jon Entine is the perfect poster boy for the biotech industry</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He reflects their ethics. He promotes their poisons. He threatens their enemies. He is an extension of their wholesale lack of respect for life and ethics that the industry itself espouses.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fascinatingly, Jon Entine has taught us all a very valuable lesson in just how easily a violent, anger-driven creature filled with hatred can influence public opinion with the help of biotech apologist publishers such as Forbes.com.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sadly, these revelations about Entine now smear the good work of other writers at Forbes.com who are ethical journalists. (For the record, I am not at war with Forbes.com, and I agree with many of the site's principles such as protecting the freedoms of small businesses from excessive government regulations such as Obamacare). But Forbes Media has chosen to diminish its own reputation by allying itself with Jon Entine and allowing his words of hatred and corporate-backed lies to repeatedly populate the web pages of Forbes.com.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Today, I am officially requesting that Forbes.com issue public apologies to all those who have been maliciously defamed by Jon Entine on the Forbes.com website, including Jeffrey Smith and Seralini.</span>
<h1><font size="4">Take action to alert any media outlet that gives a platform to this disturbed man</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wherever Entine now shows up in the media or on the lecture circuit, it will be immediately followed by a wave of complaints from the public, linking to this article and the </span><a href="http://truthwiki.org/Jon_Entine" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Truthwiki page on Entine</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Those organizations that might choose to continue to give a voice to Jon Entine will now have to face the shame and public scrutiny of providing an influence platform for a man driven by anger and hatred who physically attacked his own wife and traumatized his daughter, engaging in domestic violence and child abuse, according to court documents revealed in </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047665_Jon_Entine_domestic_violence_Forbes.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part One of this investigation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon Entine is a man who now needs to withdraw from the public space, retire in silence and think carefully about the lives and reputations that he has destroyed or harmed through his malicious, deliberate actions. As nearly everyone will agree, </span><b>Entine owes long-overdue apologies to a long list of people he has harmed and defamed</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and I only hope the man has enough courage to face what he has done and ask for forgiveness while he still has that opportunity, or I fear he will one pass away as a person obsessed with hatred, driven by dark revenge and motivated to poison and destroy as many lives as possible while claiming he is a man of "science."</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If this is science, then God help us all. Jon Entine has long claimed he is a man of science whose arguments are "scientific" and supported by the scientific community. But as this investigative article series clearly documents, Jon Entine is really a person filled with hatred and bent on destruction. He is the embodiment of pure, obsessive evil and hatred for other living beings. He is, in essence, precisely what the biotech industry stands for with its domination of intellectual property, punitive lawsuits against farmers, mass poisoning of the food supply with herbicides, chemical destruction of soils and malicious infiltration of wikipedia and social media in order to push corporate propaganda lies.</span>
<h1><font size="4">Help share these investigative articles</font></h1><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here are the titles and links to all five parts of this investigative article series:</span>
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047665_Jon_Entine_domestic_violence_Forbes.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part one: Forbes.com writer and biotech shill Jon Entine exposed as violent instigator who physically attacked wife and traumatized daughter - court documents</a>
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047666_Jon_Entine_child_abuse_court_documents.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part two: Jon Entine, biotech shill and character assassination operative, committed domestic violence and child abuse, states wife in court documents</a>
<a href="http://naturalnews.com/047667_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_wife_abuser.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part three: Biotech front man Jon Entine exposed as wikipedia vandal and violent wife abuser in public court documents</a>
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047668_Jon_Entine_biotech_front_man_corporate_propaganda.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part four: Biotech front man Jon Entine part of an shameless gang of propagandists and character assassins targeting GMO skeptics</a>
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047685_Jon_Entine_violence_against_women_hate_speech.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Part five: Why Jon Entine is a poster boy for the biotech industry: violence against women, corporate-funded hate speech and gross journalism misconduct</a>
Learn more: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047685_Jon_Entine_violence_against_women_hate_speech.html#ixzz3lkFwiSkv" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none;">http://www.naturalnews.com/047685_Jon_Entine_violence_against_women_hate_speech.html#ixzz3lkFwiSkv</a></div><div></div><div>http://www<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.motherjones</span>.com/tom-philpott/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2012</span>/02/atrazine-syngengta-tyrone-hayes-jon-entine</div><div>
</div><div>TOM PHILPOTT</div><div>
</div><div> Food and Ag, Media, Science</div><div>
</div><div><b>The Making of an Agribusiness Apologist</b></div><div>
</div><div>—By Tom Philpott | Fri Feb. 24, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2012</span> 4:18 PM EST</div><div>
</div><div>Earlier this month, Forbes.com published an op-ed by Jon Entine in which he purported to debunk Dashka Slater's must-read recent Mother Jones profile of Tyrone Hayes, the UC Berkeley professor who found that tiny doses of the widely used herbicide atrazine affects frogs' sexual development.</div><div>
</div><div>Entine, who describes himself as an "author, think tank scholar, leadership and sustainability consultant, media commentator, and public speaker on the DNA of human behavior," accused Slater of blatantly overstating the dangers of atrazine, which shows up at low levels in drinking water in farming-intensive areas in the Midwest and South. According to Entine, as it's currently used on American fields, atrazine poses no risks to people or farms. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Entine called out Mother Jones for promoting "End of Days hysteria" and displaying "a devastating lack of respect for science."</span> Now, Entine's critique of the science indicting atrazine is sophisticated and deserves to be answered. I have written critically about atrazine before, and much of Entine's critique of Slater's piece applies to my work as well. I'll be digging into that in a forthcoming post.</div><div>
</div><div> MotherJones.com</div><div>
</div><div>But what caught my eye about Entine's post in the first place is that his name had shown up in a recent report by the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Media and Democracy (part one, part two) </span>about the efforts of Syngenta, the globe's largest agribusiness firm and the maker of atrazine, to protect its lucrative chemical from possible regulatory action by the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA is currently reviewing the herbicide's registration. Last year, a panel of independent scientists convened by the EPA recommended that the agency revise its assumption that atrazine is "unlikely to cause cancer." Pointing to what it called "strong" epidemiological evidence linking atrazine to thyroid cancer, the panel states that the agency is currently acting with "inadequate information to assess carcinogenic potential." The European Union banned atrazine in 2004, based mainly on its tendency to run off into drinking water. A similar move by the EPA would cut into Syngenta's profits in the United States, where atrazine sells briskly as an herbicide for our massive corn crop.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The CMD's report is based on Syngenta documents that show how the company's PR operation has tried to influence news coverage—while also keeping tabs on journalists who have reported on atrazine's potential health risks. These internal documents, according to CMD, expose the company's campaign "to influence the media, potential jurors, potential plaintiffs, farmers, politicians, scientists, and the Environmental Protection Agency."</span> One Syngenta document reveals that in 2009, the company toyed with the idea of<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> obtaining "the services of a well-know [sic] investigative reporter to probe around the EPA</span>…At the very minimum to utilize the advice of an Investigative Reporter to council [sic] us on what buttons to push and cages to rattle."</div><div>
</div><div>Jon Entine: Wikimedia Commons</div><div>Jon Entine: "author, think tank scholar, leadership and sustainability consultant, media commentator, and public speaker on the DNA of human behavior" Wikimedia Commons</div><div>
</div><div>Entine turned up in the Center for Media and Democracy's investigation because last year he authored a book, published and promoted by the American Council on Science and Health, called Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health. "In response to the growing level of chemophobia—the irrational fear of chemicals—among the American public, ACSH compiled this resource book and position to educate legislators, industry, media, consumers and parents on the actual risks of chemical exposure and use in everyday products," a press release for the book states. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The book mounts a brief (nearly 30 of its 120 pages are bibliography) yet vigorous defense of industrial and agricultural chemical use, backed up by two case studies, one of which is on atrazine.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Syngenta has funded the American Council on Science and Health, CMD found. An email dated August 28, 2009 (PDF) from ACSH's executive director to his "Syngenta friends" refers to the "general operating support Syngenta has been so generously providing over the years, which we request to continue at current or increased levels." It adds: "Such general operating support is the lifeblood of a small non-profit like ours, and is both deeply appreciated and much needed." The letter doesn't specify the level at which the company has supported ACSH. The organization, according to CMD, has annual revenues of more than $2 million a year; its president, the high-profile pro-agrichemical polemicist Elizabeth <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Whelan, draws a salary of $350,000.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The ACSH email to Syngenta stated that "separate and distinct" from Syngenta's operating support, the group was seeking funding for a paper on the "general subject of pesticide exposure and consumer health." The paper, the budget for which ACSH put at $100,000, wouldn't focus exclusively on atrazine, but the "recent and ongoing <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">'controversy'</span>" over Syngenta's herbicide would be a "primary focus." The email went out less than a week after the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">New York Times ran an investigative piece on the presence of atrazine in Midwestern drinking water and shortly after the Natural Resources Defense Council</span> released a report (PDF) called "Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination of Drinking and Surface Water in the Central United States." ACSH said it would "consumerize" its pro-atrazine paper into a "consumer-friendly booklet," which then would be widely distributed to media, and "used as the basis for Op-eds, letters to the editor, media appearances, etc."</div><div>
</div><div>CMD's investigation does not establish whether ACSH ever got Syngenta funding for that project. But CMD raises the possibility that Entine's slim volume Scared to Death might be the very booklet that ACSH's executive director envisioned in his letter to Syngenta. Entine flat-out denied this suggestion in an email exchange. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Syngenta is not a client and never has been. I have no clients in the agricultural or chemicals businesses,"</span> he wrote. As for publishing a book with the Syngenta-funded ACSH, Entine responded:</div><div>
</div><div>No relationship with ACSH. I read a draft of an early version of a manuscript on chemical risk and thought it wasn't balanced—too critical of advocacy groups. They asked if I would write a new one. I said yes only if I had complete editorial independence. They agree. [sic] After publication I declined to be involved in any PR involving it. I hold the copyright not ACSH.</div><div>
</div><div>He added that he had "no idea" that ACSH had received Syngenta cash until he read the CMD story.</div><div>
</div><div>Though he denies being a hired gun for Syngenta, Entine cuts an odd figure as an independent ally of atrazine. Since 2003, he has been listed as a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the pro-business, anti-regulation think tank. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Entine told me that he organized a 2009 conference on pesticides for AEI, moderating a panel featuring a Syngenta researcher; a rep from Croplife America, the main agrichemical industry lobbying group; and prominent pesticide critic Jay Feldman of Beyond Pesticides. Despite his affiliation, Entine said his title with AEI is "honorific." He explained in an email, "I don't work for AEI. I get zero dollars from AEI."</span></div><div>
</div><div>caption TK: USGS</div><div>
</div><div>Something in the water: Predicted Atrazine occurrence in shallow ground water in farming areas US Geological Survey</div><div>
</div><div>Entine also runs a consultancy, <b>ESG MediaMetrics.</b> The firm's homepage lists Monsanto as a "select client." Among its "core services," it lists "Media strategy, writing, speechwriting, and engagement with critics." Describing its media services, it declares, "We manage and create reputations. We bring to every challenge our vast experience as active journalists, public relations and media specialists, international scholars, and advisers for Fortune 500 corporations." On the bio of personal web page, Entine has this to say about ESG MediaMetrics: The group "advises corporations and NGOs on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and on brand reputation and strategic communications." It adds: "Recent clients have included KKR, The Carlyle Group, The Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, P&G, American Greetings, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Monsanto,</span> DHL/Deutsche Post and Nicor."</div><div>
</div><div>However, when I referred to ESG MediaMetrics as a PR firm in an email to Entine, he objected forcefully:</div><div>
</div><div>I consult with organizations, from fair trade groups to the Environmental Defense Fund to corporations. I'm committed to science. I do no corporate PR work. You can misrepresent what I do and call it PR work, but that would be deceitful. People who do what I do are generally called "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">green consultants,"</span> which I'm sure you'd never use as then I'd seem like a good guy and it's much easier to put people and what they do in neat little boxes that prevent real thinking.</div><div>
</div><div>As for listing Monsanto as a client on the ESG website, Entine wrote: "Nine years ago, I did a $2000 research project for v-Fluence, a social media company formed by former Monsanto executives. That's the entirety of my Monsanto relationship."</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To hear Entine tell it, his defenses of atrazine and other pesticides are entirely pro bono and driven by his own initiative. He told me he gets "almost all" of his income from the Genetic Literacy Project, which, he added, is funded by what he called the Templeton and Searle foundations</span>. The project is housed at the Statistical Assessment Service program at George Mason University, where Entine is a fellow. Though Entine would not specify which Searle trust funded the GLP, the Searle Freedom Trust's 2010 tax form lists a $154,000 grant to STATS for a "Gene Policy and Science Literacy Project," which sounds an awful lot like Entine's. Founded by pharmaceutical and Nutrasweet magnate Daniel C. Searle, the Searle Freedom Trust funds all manner of conservative and free-market think tanks, including the Manhattan and Heartland Institutes.</div><div>
</div><div>According to an earlier version of the Genetic Literacy Project's website, it "fosters dialogue about the scientific, social and ethical implications of genetic technologies…It<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> respects the uncertainties inherent in science</span> but is grounded in the belief that genomic research is an engine of innovation and job creation." But the site included almost no information about what the project actually does. A "news" tab opened a page featuring links to several Entine op-eds on topics that have <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">nothing to do with genetic</span>s: pieces <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">defending plastics, fracking, atrazine, and BPA.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Entine had an explanation for this, too:</div><div>
</div><div>Until I got your email, I had no idea that the holding site for GLP had ANY articles on it, as it's supposed to just be a single page, and I haven't looked at it in a year. It's supposed to just have a summary…and as of later this afternoon [Feb. 16] it will only have that until the full GLP site goes up in a few weeks, as I just called the webmaster, who apparently had been rotely posting some of my articles.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And indeed, the GLP website has been reduced to a stub;</span> the links I provided above are to archived pages. The real Genetic Literacy Project site will be brimming with information about genetic science and related social issues, Entine assured me. "Unlike advocacy genetic sites," he added, "it will not have a specifically pro or anti genetics agenda. It's meant to be a transparent information site for policy and media people."</div><div>
</div><div>But then again, according to Entine, neither he himself, nor the organizations he affiliates with, ever have an agenda. At one point in our correspondence, I asked him about the famously right-wing, pro-corporate American Enterprise Institute. "I don't know your beef with AEI, but anybody who affiliates with them is totally independent," he wrote. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I'm an Obama Democrat and there are many non-ideologues there."</span></div><div>
</div><div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> "<i>Taboo</i> does an enormous service to "common sense" by bringing this taboo topic out of the closet. It is very catchily written with lots of human interest quotes and change of pace."</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><strong>—</strong></font> <b>J. Phillipe Rushton</b>, University of Western Ontario professor of psychology, author of <i>Race, Evolution, and Behavior</i></font></p></blockquote></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.amren.com/archives/back-issues/february-2000/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Black Magic</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A cautious but useful endorsement of racial differences.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It, Jon Entine, Public Affairs, 2000, 387 pp., $25.00.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">reviewed by Thomas Jackson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To the usual yelping that accompanies the slightest dissent from racial orthodoxy, someone has finally written a book that states the obvious: blacks dominate many sports because they have a genetic edge. Bravo for author Jon Entine but bravissimo for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Public Affairs publishing</span>, which has broken with what is one of the most conformist and cowardly industries in the country (see Mr. Entine’s account below).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Only two kinds of people will be surprised or offended by this book — crazed egalitarians and people who have never watched the Olympics or a pro basketball game. Since it is the former group that sets the intellectual tone for the country, reviewers will probably either ignore this book or cluck worriedly over it, but whatever happens, another blow has been struck against anti-scientific foolishness.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But is this a good book? For people who like their racial analysis stuffed with facts and close reasoning, and devoid of pulled punches —<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> for people who enjoy Michael Levin, Arthur Jensen, <b>Philippe Rushton</b>, and Richard Lynn — this is thin gruel</span>. It’s breezy and meandering, and does its own share of clucking about the “slippery slope of racism,” but it does a great many useful and important things. And by doing them in a mass-market book that will probably find its way into the hands of a great many sports fans it could accomplish more than books by scholars and scientists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first useful thing Mr. Entine does is attack the goofy notion that race is some kind of optical illusion. He argues instead that race differences may be as old as the human species. He points out that whether one accepts the out-of-Africa-recent-differentiation theory or theories of dispersed evolution, “there has been ample time for [racial] differences to have evolved.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To be sure, there is a great deal of the human genome that is common to all races, but Mr. Entine explains that tiny differences can have huge consequences. After all, he writes, dogs and humans differ in only five percent of their genome, and there are plenty of gene sequences unique to different races. Speaking of dogs, Mr. Entine notes that in 1998 the American Kennel Club recalled the latest edition of The Complete Dog Book after complaints that it perpetuated “pernicious stereotypes” about breeds rather than treating them all as equals. Breeds are the equivalent of races, he explains, adding that “the belief that dog breeds do not have stereotypical personalities is as intuitively ridiculous as claiming that there are no meaningful differences between human populations.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Different kinds of dogs even get different diseases, just like different races of humans. Why is it so hard to accept racial differences in athletic ability, asks Mr. Entine, when it is widely accepted that the races differ in susceptibility to sickle-cell anemia, prostate cancer, Tay-Sachs disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of Mr. Entine’s most effective tactics is to use the record book to show just how concentrated certain kinds of athletic performance are in certain groups. The chart on this page, reproduced from the book, is worth studying carefully. It is a percentage analysis by race or country of origin of the 100 fastest times in the eight most common distances in track and field. In the sprints up through the 400 meters West Africans (including British, American, and Canadian blacks who are of West African origin) are crushingly dominant, but they are completely out of the picture at distances greater than 800 meters. Beginning at that distance, other Africans take over — North Africans and East Africans, especially Kenyans. At 5,000 meters, African dominance (here represented in three separate bars) exceeds 90 percent, with the remaining times held by whites. East Asians appear on the chart only in one event, the marathon. As Mr. Entine points out, only genetic differences can plausibly account for such marked athletic specialization by race.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reason Kenya gets its own separate bar on the graph is due almost entirely to the remarkable running abilities of one tribe, the Kalenjin, who have won 70 percent of Kenya’s Olympic gold medals. Kenya’s Nandi district, in the heart of Kalenjin country, has only 1.8 percent of the country’s population but accounts for 35 percent of its top runners. Mr. Entine reports that the Kalenjin laugh at anything other than biological explanations for their prowess; they know they are naturally gifted runners. Another little-known tribe of prodigies are the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. Mr. Entine reports they are best in the world at the gruesome 100-mile Leadville, Colorado, race that ends at an elevation of 11,000 feet. They don’t often bother to compete, but have been known to breeze to the finish in traditional sandals rather than running shoes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the United States, black dominance of basketball and football is virtually complete, and blacks are over-represented in baseball. For women, too, the racial differences are almost as stark, with whites offering no competition in sprints and not much in basketball. Seventy percent of the players in the National Women’s Basketball Association are black, as were nine of the ten women chosen in 1999 for the first and second all-NWBA teams.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Entine points out that during the Soviet era, there was a plausible argument to be made that with enough training white women, anyway, could compete with blacks. East German and Soviet women who had been through the national sports factories kept West Africans from dominating the sprints. Now we know that those Communist women looked so mannish and performed so well because they were doped up on steroids and hormones. Coaches wouldn’t let some of them speak to reporters or into a microphone because they had such deep voices. In the decade or so since Communism collapsed and drug testing became more sophisticated, Russian and East German athletes have dropped back in the pack to join the rest of the whites.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">100 Fastest Times By Country or Ancestry</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">East and North Africans do not (yet) dominate women’s middle- and long-distance events, but Mr. Entine says this is only because African societies have kept women out of sports. As more African women start competing, whites and Asians will be squeezed out.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Champion sprinter Frankie Fredericks of Namibia prepares to lose.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blacks didn’t always crush whites in sports, of course, but this was because many American sports were segregated, blacks got little training, and Africa was a primitive wilderness. Even so, the writing has been on the wall for a long time. Not since the 1950s has a white ball player had the most steals in a season, and it has been 40 years since a white man, Armin Hary of Germany, held the world record in the 100 meters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Needless to say, it is not just American sports teams that are now larded with blacks. Only two percent of the population of Britain is black, but 20 percent of its pro soccer players are. A track meet between the Canadian and American national teams would settle only the question of who has the fastest Africans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What are the physiological correlates of black athletic superiority? Mr. Entine writes that as long ago as 1939, Eleanor Metheny of Iowa State University looked into sports biology and found that blacks had longer arms and legs, a shorter trunk, narrower hips, and heavier bones than whites.</span> Hundreds of studies have since confirmed and supplemented her findings. We now know that West African blacks have more muscle, less fat, hands relatively longer than forearms, and feet relatively longer than lower legs (which are relatively longer than thighs).<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> They have higher serum testosterone levels, which increases muscle mass and aggressiveness, and smaller chest and lung capacities, which is why they wear out at longer distances. Heavy bones and less fat explain why so many blacks are “sinkers” in the pool, and low lung capacity is a problem in swimming events as it is in long-distance running.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West African blacks have a larger percentage of what is called fast-twitch fiber in their muscles, which is what the body needs for explosive bursts of speed. It also helps blacks jump. The best whites can jump straight up 50 percent of their height; blacks can go over 60 percent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">East African blacks have a larger lung capacity than whites and process oxygen more efficiently. They do not suffer as much from lactic acid buildup in their muscles and are therefore less susceptible to fatigue. They naturally have the slim build of good distance runners.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mr. Entine writes that blacks respond to athletic training more quickly than whites and require less of it.</span> Sprinter Carl Lewis worked out only eight hours a week when he was training for the 1984 Olympics; whites may work out nearly that much in a day. East Africans can reportedly take months off from training but quickly regain top form.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This sort of thing is fascinating and entirely to the point, but there is not that much of it in Taboo. Mr. Entine could have made his case in about 100 pages. The rest of the book is taken up with stories about Kipchoge Keino and other famous Kalenjins, stories about the Communist sports factories, and a long, wandering history of race and American sports. This may be interesting to sports fans, but the chart on the previous page is worth a hundred stories about Jesse Owens and Michael Jordan. The early heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson, who snarled over prostrate white opponents and carried on publicly with white women, was a colorful figure, and very few people know professional football was (re)integrated with no fanfare the year before Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers in 1947 — but so what? Mr. Entine seems to be trying to parry charges of “racism” with sympathetic accounts of black sportsmen who fought segregation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, he has assembled the necessary facts and they all hang together. What we know about racial differences in biology conforms perfectly with what we see on the playing field and in the swimming pool. So what’s the problem? Why can’t the country admit what everyone knows and make it official? The problem — and the answer to the question in the book’s subtitle — is that honesty about athletics could lead to honesty about intelligence. This is why we have near-universal dishonesty, which leads to all sorts of nuttiness. Mr. Entine quotes Bob Herbert of the New York Times, that praising blacks for athletic ability is “a genteel way to say nigger.” An early pre-publication story about Taboo in the Times, quotes a black who says scientific investigation of athletic ability is an “underhanded way” of saying that blacks are “closer to beast … than they are to the rest of humanity” and it quotes a white as saying, “Didn’t we hear all this in Germany in 1936?” Mr. Entine has collected many examples of this sort of non-thinking.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sadly for the egalitarians, the evidence for racial differences in intelligence is far more systematic, far more carefully studied, and much better understood than the evidence for athletic differences. Everyone knows this, which is why everyone pretends so diligently and hysterically not to.</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Entine knows it, too, but tries not to show it. He has <b>laced the book with anti-racist pieties, </b>calls the Pioneer Fund “a magnet for white supremacists,” sneers at Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant, and writes happily that the 1938 rematch victory of heavyweight Joe Louis over the German Max Schmel-ing “was a knockout blow to the smug Nazis and their legion of Aryan-supremacist sympathizers around the world.” He even stoops to what can only be called disingenuousness: The book’s “only <b>real message,” he writes, is that “for all our differences, we are far, far more similar.” That is not the book’s real message; it is a transparent sop to the censorship commissars.</b></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, despite all the jabber about “racism,” Mr. Entine is careful never to deny the<font color="#ff0000"> possibility of intelligence differences.</font> He even writes sentences like: “The evolutionary crucible has left population groups with distinct physiques, musculature, testosterone levels, metabolic efficiency, reaction time, and a slew of other characteristics.” (emphasis added) He even writes that black babies are born after a shorter gestation period and mature more quickly than white babies. He knows, all right.</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some day Americans will start saying what they really think about race. If they can’t yet talk about intelligence let them at least begin with sports. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">May Taboo sell and sell.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ARTICLE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breaking Taboos in the Publishing Industry</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Struggle to Get Taboo Published.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Jon Entine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are only 800 million blacks, or one in eight of the world population, but athletes of African origin hold every major world running record. Blacks make up 70 percent of the NFL and 85 percent of professional basketball. Even in sports in which blacks are not a majority — baseball, soccer, rugby, cricket, even bobsledding in some countries — blacks are represented in greater numbers than their share of the population. In my book, Taboo, I report the very uncontroversial scientific conclusion that environment and culture alone cannot explain this remarkable phenomenon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If you can believe that individuals of recent African ancestry are not genetically advantaged over those of European and Asian ancestry in certain athletic endeavors,” observes Vincent Sarich, a renowned biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, “then you probably could be led to believe just about anything. But such dominance will never convince those whose minds are made up that genetics plays no role in shaping the racial patterns we see in sports. When we discuss issues such as race, it pushes buttons and the cortex just shuts down.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To the degree that it is a purely scientific debate, the evidence of black superiority in athletics is overwhelming, and decisively confirmed on the playing field. As equality of opportunity has increased in sports over the last 30 years, equality of results — the diversity of the races of the elite players — has declined. Greater opportunity has actually led to greater inequality.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taboo, by Jon Entine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Popular thinking — or at least what people are willing to say publicly — lags behind the genetic revolution, which has undercut the supposedly politically-comforting belief that all humans are created with equal potential. Evidence spilling forth from the Human Genome Project shows that some functional characteristics do differentiate populations — most clearly in the proclivity to certain diseases and in athletic ability — although the classic racial trichotomy of sub-Saharan black/European white/Asian is indeed fuzzy around the edges. Genetically-linked, highly heritable characteristics such as skeletal structure, the distribution of muscle fiber types, reflex capabilities, metabolic efficiency, lung capacity, or the ability to use energy more efficiently are not evenly distributed across racial groups and cannot be explained by known environmental factors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But don’t expect a dispassionate public discussion about a subject that has become wholly political. Since World War II, anthropological orthodoxy has held that the very concept of race is a loaded, social construct. “People feel if you say blacks are better athletically, you’re saying they’re dumber,” Frank Deford, the respected author and sports reporter once noted. “But when Jack Nicklaus sinks a 30-foot putt, nobody thinks his IQ goes down.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I should not have been surprised that my book would cause a brouhaha considering the rough going I faced a decade ago writing and producing an NBC documentary with Tom Brokaw, Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In 1988, Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder, a prognosticator with CBS Sports, had been fired and publicly ridiculed after making an off-handed comment that slave owners had bred blacks to produce the best physical specimens and that this contributed to black success in sports. Mr. Brokaw and I decided that maybe it was about time finally to address the issue openly.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The program provoked intense reaction and it divided public opinion, frequently along racial lines. A white columnist at Newsday called it “a step forward in the dialogue on race and sports” while a black writer at the same daily wrote that “NBC had scientists answer questions that none but a bigot would conjure up.” “[Mr. Brokaw] utterly ignore[d] the facts in favor of the speculation of several scientists,” charged Ralph Wiley in Emerge magazine. “His program played like a badly cast farce.” Still, Black Athletes went on to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">win numerous awards including Best International Sports Film.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few years after the documentary, at the urging of literary agent Basil Kane, I circulated a book proposal to publishers to explore the issue in more depth. The reactions were consistent: “By even suggesting that blacks may have a genetic edge in sports, you are opening up the Pandora’s box of intellectual inferiority.” In other words, great proposal, racist idea.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After more than a dozen rejections, an independent-minded editor at Mac-millan, Rick Wolff, offered me a contract for what was to become Taboo. The turn of good fortune proved fleeting. Soon after, Mr. Wolff moved to Warner Books and though he wanted to take the book with him, Warner balked. “It was considered too dicey a subject,” he recalls. “Once the other editors heard it was about racial differences, they wouldn’t even let me present it at an editorial meeting.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I was stuck with writing the book for Mr. Wolf’s eventual replacement as sports editor at Macmillan, Natalie Chapman, who knew nothing about the subject. Miss Chapman was encouraging when she reviewed the early manuscript, but then apparently got cold feet. Eight months later, she sent me the brush off. “Much of the manuscript is smoothly and elegantly written, and most of it is quite enjoyable to read. [But] while I admire the goals of the book, I must regretfully inform you that [it] lacks sufficient persuasiveness “to avoid being torn apart by critics, reviewers, and readers.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Years of work on an important subject were suddenly in mortal danger. Basil, my agent, embarked on a full court press to find a new publisher. Again, most everyone was too frightened even to read it. Basic Books, a first-rate independent publisher affiliated with Harper-Collins, wanted to do it until an African American consultant nixed the book as “potentially racist.” One female editor lectured Basil for a half hour about how insensitive he was even to propose such an idea. Would she please read the book? “I don’t have time for such trash,” she replied.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That reaction was all the more infuriating given the lengths to which I went to bring different perspectives to the book. In recognition of the complexity of the issues in sociology, anthropology, and population genetics, I submitted the manuscript for review to a board of advisors and experts drawn from a range of races, professional expertise, and countries. To a man and woman, they loved the book and thought it fair and provocative.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You will be accused of spouting old fashioned racism for even raising the issue of African American superiority in athletics,” wrote Earl Smith, Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University, a leading black scholar and author of several books on race and sports, and one of my board members. “All this beating around the bush has to stop. This is a good book. I am quite excited with the arguments that are raised.”[<span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earl Smith, Rubin Professor of American Ethnic Studies and chairman of the sociology department at Wake Forest University, has been elected the 21st president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. formerly pacific lutheran]</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Smith’s endorsement, along with reviews and letters of support from the editor of the Journal of the African American Male, the president of the Human Biology Association, Olympic Committee scientists, and top athletes didn’t make a difference. When it comes to race, “the cortex shuts down.” No one would give Taboo a chance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The log jam broke when Geoff Shandler, an editor at PublicAffairs, another independent publisher, also affiliated with HarperCollins, read it and loved it. “I understand what you are trying to do with this book,” he wrote. “We’d be honored to do it.”[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/geoff-shandler/a5/731/128 soros dana p]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even with a respected publisher behind the book, the hysteria continues. In early January, The New York Times magazine told me it was killing plans to publish an adaptation, calling it potentially “dangerous.” “Our reluctant decision to drop the project is no reflection of my regard for your work, which remains high,” wrote Kyle Crichton, an editor who had championed the article. “In brief, the whole subject worries my editor”.” ABC 20/20 also suddenly backed out of doing a story on Taboo. An executive explained that “higher management” got scared.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book is now finally in the hands of the public. Will it be as skittish about the contents as the publishing industry? I doubt it. The African American community in particular has become irritated to the point of anger about the patronizing censorship and codes of silence that many journalists and institutions employ to “protect them.” Science is a method of interrogating reality, a cumulative process of testing new and more refined explanations, not an assertion of dry, inalterable facts. It is a way of asking questions, not of imposing answers. I suspect American readers of all ideological and racial stripes are far more open to dispassionate inquiry than many “leaders” of American letters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Entine is a writer and Emmy-winning producer for NBC and ABC News, and has won a National Press Club Award. 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Among other abuses, Entine cites Pollan’s lack of <a href="http://acsh.org/2013/10/jon-entine-calls-pollan-poor-biased-journalism/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" title="View all posts in Nutrition and Lifestyle" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/agriculture/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">agriculture</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/gmo-foods/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">GMO foods</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/jone-entine/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Jone Entine</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/michael-pollan/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Michael Pollan</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/technology-2/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">technology</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2012/07/jon-entine-on-anti-food-activism/" title="Permalink to Jon Entine on anti-food activism" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine on anti-food activism</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2012/07/jon-entine-on-anti-food-activism/" title="7:31 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">July 23, 2012</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We’d like our readers to take note of a recent speech by ACSH colleague Jon Entine, who authored our publication Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health. Mr. Entine is a senior research fellow at the Center for Health and Risk Communication at George Mason University and director of …<a href="http://acsh.org/2012/07/jon-entine-on-anti-food-activism/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" title="View all posts in Nutrition and Lifestyle" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2014/02/bee-bee-behind-bee-colony-collapse-one/" title="Permalink to To Bee or Not to Bee? What is behind the bee colony collapse? Or is there one?" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To Bee or Not to Bee? What is behind the bee colony collapse? Or is there one?</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2014/02/bee-bee-behind-bee-colony-collapse-one/" title="1:54 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">February 6, 2014</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even we at ACSH were surprised at this one. The discussion about the reasons behind the <a href="http://acsh.org/2014/02/bee-bee-behind-bee-colony-collapse-one/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/chemicals-and-environment/" title="View all posts in Chemicals and Environment" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Chemicals and Environment</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/bee-colony-collapse/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">bee colony collapse</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/bees/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">bees</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2013/08/food-fears-continue-to-plague-americans-whipped-by-chemophobia/" title="Permalink to Food fears continue to plague Americans, whipped by chemophobia" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Food fears continue to plague Americans, whipped by chemophobia</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2013/08/food-fears-continue-to-plague-americans-whipped-by-chemophobia/" title="1:53 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">August 19, 2013</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fear of chemicals all around us, especially in our food, can be of great concern to the consumer. However, such concerns (or even fears) are unfounded based on the science. <a href="http://acsh.org/2013/08/food-fears-continue-to-plague-americans-whipped-by-chemophobia/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/chemicals-and-environment/" title="View all posts in Chemicals and Environment" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Chemicals and Environment</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/chemophobia/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Chemophobia</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/fear-of-chemicals/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">fear of chemicals</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/food/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">food</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/pesticides/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Pesticides</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2013/04/its-time-to-reform-tsca-again-n-y-times-2/" title="Permalink to It’s time to “reform TSCA”, again: N.Y.Times" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s time to “reform TSCA”, again: N.Y.Times</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2013/04/its-time-to-reform-tsca-again-n-y-times-2/" title="4:39 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">April 22, 2013</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the latest New York Times editorial, the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1976 Toxic Substances Control Act must be “reformed,”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> since it’s “toothless.” How did the expert scientists writing the Times‘ editorial know how ineffective TSCA was? Well, here’s their irrefutable logic: “The failure of the law can be read in these dismal statistics: … </span><a href="http://acsh.org/2013/04/its-time-to-reform-tsca-again-n-y-times-2/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/chemicals-and-environment/" title="View all posts in Chemicals and Environment" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Chemicals and Environment</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/public-policy/" title="View all posts in Public Policy" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Public Policy</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2013/02/theres-just-no-stopping-anti-gmo-agitators-apparently/" title="Permalink to There’s just no stopping anti-GMO agitators, apparently" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s just no stopping anti-GMO agitators, apparently</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2013/02/theres-just-no-stopping-anti-gmo-agitators-apparently/" title="1:25 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">February 1, 2013</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They won’t give up, no matter the science or the votes. Anti-technology activists opposed to genetically-engineered food were defeated at the ballot box in California last year, but they’re not giving up. A propaganda piece in The </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">New York Times,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the guise of a news story, highlights how major … </span><a href="http://acsh.org/2013/02/theres-just-no-stopping-anti-gmo-agitators-apparently/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" title="View all posts in Nutrition and Lifestyle" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2012/12/fishy-business-in-washington/" title="Permalink to Fishy business in Washington" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fishy business in Washington</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2012/12/fishy-business-in-washington/" title="5:58 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">December 20, 2012</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ACSH friend Jon Entine has written an incisive investigative piece featured in <b>Slate.</b>com </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">exposing just how much politics can interfere with science. His chosen topic is the bizarre course towards eventual (we hope) governmental approval of the genetically-engineered AquaBounty salmon over the past two-plus years. The salmon developed by AquaBounty … </span><a href="http://acsh.org/2012/12/fishy-business-in-washington/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/public-policy/" title="View all posts in Public Policy" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Public Policy</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2012/09/campbells-promises-more-than-it-can-deliver/" title="Permalink to Campbell’s promises more than it can deliver" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campbell’s promises more than it can deliver</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2012/09/campbells-promises-more-than-it-can-deliver/" title="6:13 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">September 18, 2012</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And while we’re on the topic of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">BPA</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, we’d like to applaud ACSH colleague Jon Entine’s recent exposé of the disconnect between public relations and scientific evidence that has resulted from uninformed public outcry over the chemical. “How did the world’s largest soup company go from pariah to paragon over … </span><a href="http://acsh.org/2012/09/campbells-promises-more-than-it-can-deliver/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" title="View all posts in Nutrition and Lifestyle" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2011/09/the-scientific-research-that-bpa-bans-ignore/" title="Permalink to The scientific research that BPA bans ignore" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The scientific research that BPA bans ignore</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2011/09/the-scientific-research-that-bpa-bans-ignore/" title="12:00 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">September 7, 2011</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the current issue of The American, science writer Jon Entine takes a look at the comprehensive list of scientific institutions world-wide that have found no cause for concern about bisphenol A (BPA), and asks why politicians are nevertheless imposing bans on the substance. “Anti-BPA campaigners have created a straw … <a href="http://acsh.org/2011/09/the-scientific-research-that-bpa-bans-ignore/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/chemicals-and-environment/" title="View all posts in Chemicals and Environment" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">Chemicals and Environment</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" title="View all posts in News and Views" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">News and Views</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://acsh.org/2011/07/the-health-impact-of-irrational-fears/" title="Permalink to The health impact of irrational fears" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The health impact of irrational fears</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2011/07/the-health-impact-of-irrational-fears/" title="12:00 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">July 8, 2011</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither the chemicals that leach in tiny amounts from plastics, nor the so-called radiation from your cell phone threatens your health as much as the simple act of sitting may. 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Has ‘Big Ag’ finally nailed a long time nemesis? Or has an activist scientist with a long history of discredited studies finally fallen victim to</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"> his own bizarre behavior</span>?</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">These are the competing narratives in play as journalists and policymakers try to make sense of reports last week that </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tyrone Hayes,</span> the University of California at Berkeley herpetologist who churned out study after study about the alleged dangers of a popular herbicide—research that many scientists and the federal government have found neither convincing nor reproducible—has at least temporarily been forced to shutter his lab because of a lack of funds. Hayes suggests the university has unfairly shut him down because of outside pressure from his longtime critics, including the Swiss-based chemical company Syngenta.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">This saga began in 1999, when Hayes was working as a contract researcher for the chemical company Novartis to study atrazine (in 2000, Novartis spun off its agribusiness to form Syngenta, and today the companies are unrelated). Hayes claimed he found that the herbicide might cause hormonal abnormalities. Hayes and Novartis parted ways shortly thereafter; he steadfastly claims he was blackballed because of his findings.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Three years later, Hayes published a blockbuster study, claiming that atrazine, hailed by scientists for decades because of its low toxic profile, caused sexual abnormalities in frogs and speculating that it may cause problems in humans as well. Hayes’ claims set off a firestorm despite the fact that a much larger independent study released at the very same time found no meaningful link between atrazine exposure and abnormalities. Numerous follow up studies since then have failed to find the endocrine related problems Hayes claimed to have identified.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Over the past decade, Hayes has become a major thorn in the side of the chemical industry and an annoyance for regulators who have come to view his research methodology as shoddy and his demeanor quirky—when they’re talking nice. But as Hayes tells his story—and he has found a compliant vessel in Paul Basken, a reporter for the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Chronicle of Higher Education</em> [whose <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Berkeley-Researcher-Who/141115/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">article</a> is behind a paywall]—the beleaguered amphibian expert has finally fallen victim to a 14-year campaign by Syngenta to personally savage him and his work.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">It’s a powerful and disturbing storyline, if true: Big, bad multinational company out to destroy courageous, whistle-blowing scientist to protect sales of a profitable but dangerously toxic chemical, public health be damned. Basken, for one, bought it hook line and sinker, portraying Hayes as a cutting edge researcher with broad and admiring support among independent scientists. The conspiracy theory was immediately<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/08/berkeley-defunds-high-profile-pesticide-critic" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">disseminated</a> without a hint of critical analysis by the usual anti-chemical <b>crusaders</b>, such as Tom Philpott at <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mother Jones</em></span>. But what’s the real story?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Atrazine over time</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; float: none; width: auto; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">According to the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/atrazine_background.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">Environmental Protection Agency</a>, atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides in the world. The odorless white powder is used on dozens of crops, including more than half of the country’s corn, 90 percent of its sugar cane and two-thirds of its sorghum. It’s applied to control a wide range of broadleaf and yield-robbing grassy weeds that would otherwise choke a crop and starve it of nutrients, but do not harm the plant itself. It’s considered so comparatively gentle that it can be applied even after a crop’s first shoots appear above the ground.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">An <a href="http://www.ncwss.org/proceed/2008/abstracts/137.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">EPA study</a> concluded that atrazine boosts yields by 6 percent or more, saving corn farmers as much as $28 per acre—more than $2 billion in direct economic benefits, which could be the difference between solvency and bankruptcy for many. In other words, it is effective and is certainly a moneymaker for its manufacturer. But does it pose serious health challenges to humans as Hayes and a small coterie of scientists who are known for their political activism contend?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Atrazine is one of most scrutinized chemicals in history. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">There have been almost 7,000 studies of it over the past 40 years. This compares to the 100 to 200 safety studies generally required by the Environmental Protection Agency before registering a product.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“Since we concluded our last evaluation of atrazine in 2003,” the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/atrazine/atrazine_update.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">EPA writes</a>on its website, “we have evaluated close to 150 published studies investigating a wide array of effects potentially relevant to human health risk assessment.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The EPA’s assessment reflects the consensus by many scientific bodies around the world, including the World Health Organization and regulatory agencies in Australia, Canada the European Union’s safety review: atrazine has a short half-life, does not bio-accumulate in organisms, is not carcinogenic and study after study has shown it does not cause abnormalities and deformities at levels occurring in groundwater.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Atrazine is not sold in Europe after a vote by the European Union in 2003 in response to campaigns by advocacy groups over trace amounts found in groundwater at levels well below safety cut off standards in the US and Australia. The decision came despite the fact that the EU, in its science review, had determined that when properly used, atrazine “will not have any harmful effects on human or animal health or any unacceptable effects on the environment.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Ironically, European farmers now control their weeds with the herbicide terbuthylazine that has nearly the same chemical and safety profile as atrazine—but is not in the ideological crosshairs.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The case against atrazine rests largely on the integrity of the research by Hayes, its chief critic. For example, a widely circulated <a href="http://www.panna.org/current-campaigns/atrazine" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">joint polemic</a> issued in January 2010 by the Land Stewardship Project and the Pesticide Action Network cites Hayes more than 50 times and includes a question-and-answer section with him in which he outlines his allegations.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">While a hero to anti-chemical campaigners, Hayes has long been a perplexing figure to the broader science community. After his sensational 2002 study, government scientists and regulators were eager to do follow up experiments, drawing on his supposedly extensive data. But he was uncooperative—an oddly defensive reaction as scientists rely on data sharing and reproducible experiments to ensure that their results are not tainted or anomalous and policy decisions are grounded in ‘weight of evidence’ data.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The EPA was put in the untenable position of having hundreds, even thousands, of studies showing that atrazine was comparatively benign while one scientist, Hayes, blamed the herbicide for a decline in the worldwide frog population</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">. Hayes claimed the supposedly shrinking number of amphibians was a canary in the mine for mysterious illnesses in humans. In fact, the decline of the frog population is a complicated phenomenon (much of the evidence is anecdotal) for which few mainstream scientists link directly to atrazine usage.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Under relentless attack by those touting Hayes’ work, the EPA examined the frog allegations in 2007, concluding, “atrazine does not adversely affect amphibian gonadal development based on a review of laboratory and field studies, including studies submitted by the registrant and studies published in the scientific literature.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The dying frogs theory seems largely relegated to the Berkeley lab. “Atrazine has been used widely in South Africa for the past 45 years, and our studies showed that Xenopus are doing equally fine in agricultural and nonagricultural areas,” zoologist </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Louis du Preez</span> of North-West University in South Africa <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=common-herbicide-turns-male-frogs-into-females" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">noted in 2010</a>. African clawed frogs do not appear to be suffering from the herbicide in their native habitats. “If atrazine had these adverse effects on Xenopus in the wild, surely we would have picked it up by now.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Threat to human health?</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">But the most explosive charge was Hayes’ belief, echoed by anti-pesticide activists, that atrazine could cause endocrine related developmental health problems in humans. But where were the data? To support that theory and as evidence that Hayes is being persecuted, reporter Basken draws on an article published on the website <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Environmental Health News. </em>EHN is run as an anti-chemical propaganda vehicle by John Peterson Myers, who the reporter positions as an independent and highly respected neutral observer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">According to the EHN <a href="http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/atrazine" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">piece published in June</a>, Syngenta has run an “aggressive multi-million dollar campaign that included hiring a detective agency to investigate scientists on a federal advisory panel [and] looking into the personal life of a judge.” In fact Myers is a controversial out-of-the-mainstream campaigning scientist and longtime crony of Hayes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Both Hayes and Myers have tried over the past 15 years to pump what’s known as the<b> “endocrine disruptor” theory.</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b> That’s a novel, widely circulated notion popular with the Environmental Working Group, Center for Food Safety, Natural Resources Defense Council </b>and other anti-chemical activists, including a tiny but vocal minority of scientists, in part because mysterious illnesses can be claimed even in the absence of hard data. They’ve made a particular point of championing Hayes’ questionable findings.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">According to these critics, chemicals like atrazine and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Bisphenol-A</span> (also much maligned by activists, but which a slew of new studies show is also comparatively benign) can be blamed for everything from cancer to obesity, retarded neurological development, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, infertility and disorders related to sexual development. Hayes’ deformed frogs were touted as a central piece of evidence.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">These are catastrophic allegations, which if supported by the evidence would warrant immediate intervention. But the evidence falls short. Responding to </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">alarm bells rung by activist scientists and DC-based lobby groups</span>, the government in recent years has commissioned tens of millions of dollars of studies on the endocrine disruption hypothesis with no conclusive evidence to support it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">In the case of atrazine, without any real data from Hayes or other research supporting his contentions, the independent government oversight and mainstream science community has rejected his relentlessly alarmist conclusions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“Dr. Hayes claims not only that his laboratory has repeated the findings many times in experiments with thousands of frogs, but that other scientists have also replicated his results,” said Anne Lindsay, then deputy director of EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs in 2005, in government testimony. “EPA, however, has never seen either the results from any independent investigator published in peer-reviewed scientific journals nor the raw data from Dr. Hayes’ additional experiments.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Recently, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Australia’</span>s Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts—it’s EPA—carefully reviewed Hayes latest study, from 2010, finding the lab work flawed and recommending no change to its conclusion that atrazine is safe as used. The EPA concurs. Donald Brady, director of the EPA’s Environmental Fate and Effects Division, stated in a publicly released letter that the agency “could not properly account for the sample sizes and study design reportedly used by the Berkeley researchers.” That’s bureaucratize and science-speak for saying Hayes peddles junk science.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The emerging scientific consensus is that restrictions placed years ago on atrazine in response to anti-chemical campaigns were too stringent rather than not tight enough. Following an extensive review of the latest scientific studies, the World Health Organization moved in 2011 to raise the allowable levels of atrazine in drinking water by 50 fold.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Of course none of this contextualized reporting found its way into Basken’s article, which portrayed Hayes as a hero-under-siege. The article also passes along some outright false statements, apparently because the reporter relied on Hayes as a reliable source. He quotes Hayes as claiming Berkeley officials may have targeted him out of a “desire to protect a $25-million, five year research agreement between Berkeley and Novartis, a parent company of Syngenta.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">That’s an explosive charge. In fact, the five-year research agreement that Hayes’ research was theoretically endangering was from Novartis and dates back <a href="http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/98legacy/11-23-1998.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">15 years</a>, to 1998, before Novartis and Astra Zeneca spun off their agri-businesses to form Syngenta. The grant expired by 2004.That one-time grant aroused controversy at the time. Activist critics cited it as an example of a big corporation corrupting science at a public university—allegations <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/07/30_novartis.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">dismissed after an independent investigation</a> that cost the university almost a quarter of a million dollars. The <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Chronicle of Higher Education</em> reporter could have easily dug out what really transpired by talking to university officials or even through a simple Google search. Instead he just passed along a discredited bogus allegation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hayes contends he has in effect been fired because he’s the ‘good guy’ fighting an uphill battle against the university and Big Ag conspiring against him. But what really went down at Berkeley? There is certainly no evidence of a conspiracy theory.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I … just wanted to state in no uncertain terms that the university’s administration has not frozen his funds or taken any other steps against him,” I was told in an email from Dan Mogulof, Berkeley’s public affairs executive director</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">. The situation is far more mundane than” Hayes claims, he adds. “The professor had a standing deficit with our animal lab as a result of unpaid care/feeding/maintenance bills. So, his departmental business manager was forced to draw from his account to pay the bill, thereby depleting his available resources given his recent challenges when it comes to attracting funding…. The university has no institutional ties, contracts or connections with Syngenta, and the contract with Novartis lapsed about ten years ago and was not renewed,” Mogulof added in a subsequent email. “In other words, not only didn’t the administration take any actions against Prof. Hayes, there is also an absence of any motive.” In fact, the university is providing bridge financing for Hayes and keeping care of his frogs in case Hayes is able to rustle up more funding.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hayes continues to contend that the university jacked up his fees and targeted him specifically. “I must also note,” writes Mogulof, “that he [was] charged by the lab in the EXACT same manner as his faculty peers.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">By most accounts, Hayes is a</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>celebrity obsessed </b>and self-promoting (read his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Hayes" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">self-written <b>Wikipedia </b>page</a> for a laugh) activist </span>scientist who has a history of turning out questionable studies. It’s seems reasonable to conclude that Berkeley had had it up to here with Hayes’s antics and mismanagement. That said, they have</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> carefully refused to take any action against him. </span>This current brouhaha has been brewing for years as Hayes drained his research funds and failed to extract funding. Excising the professors phony “smoking gun” charge from the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><b>Chronicle of Higher Education</b> </em>article we are now left with a much clearer and more factually based picture of what has probably gone down in Berkeley.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Skepticism about the integrity of Hayes’ research is compounded by his </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">erratic professional behavior. For years he has been <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/2010/08/i-told-ya-you-cant-stop-rage-uc-endocrinologist-hayes-writes-syngenta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">sending abusive rap like email</a> barrages </span>filled with salacious comments to Syngenta employees. For example, in March 2008, after Hayes apparently turned down an offer to meet directly with the company, he emailed an executive: “everywhere i go i cause a raucus; act like you know that’s how i do it mth fcks.” Asked to desist, Hayes responded: “I told ya, you can’t stop the rage.” Syngenta was concerned enough by the fusillades that it filed an <a href="http://www.atrazine.com/Amphibians/Univ_of_CA-7-19-10.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ethics complaint</a> with the university that included an astonishing document with <a href="http://www.atrazine.com/Amphibians/Combined_Large_pdf-r-opt.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">102 pages</a> of bizarre emails.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hayes resurfaced again this past weekend. There he was in San Francisco as the signature speaker at a “save the frogs” event—part of an ongoing series of regular presentations he helps set up to preserve and promote his now threatened status as a ‘go to’ star source for anti-chemical campaigners. Hayes also announced he had <a href="http://100r.org/2013/08/excessive-lab-fees-choking-research-scientist-says/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">retained a lawyer</a> to challenge the university’s decision to freeze his research budget.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pesticides such as atrazine present challenges for regulators. They provide huge benefits, including the ability to pump yields with limited ecological damage, which has cut production and food costs and led to more nutritious foods. But because of their potential toxicity when misused, prudent regulatory oversight is essential. That requires careful balancing. The government has to rely on the work of independent researchers. If ideology becomes more important than data than the public pays the consequences.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">That returns us to the role of journalists, like Basken, in this fiasco. Why have journalists refused to provide a balanced perspective on pesticides and other chemicals? Simply stated, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">many reporters are poorly schooled in science.</span> They often do not have the sophistication or inclination to apply weight of evidence criteria or critically parse science from ideology.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 125px 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The EPA will soon be undertaking its regularly scheduled periodic review of atrazine, but </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hayes data, long since discredited, will not be part of the process</span>. Hayes has led the international regulatory community on a wild goose chase for more than a decade, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. In a world where public research funds are limited and dwindling, that borders on criminal.</p></div></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9/15 i cant find this online]</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><hgroup class="prevent_widows prevent_widows_initialized" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><h5 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.1; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">opinion <time itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-04-30T12:42:33-04:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">4/30/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2013</span><font color="#666666" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span>@ 12:42PM</font></time><font color="#666666" style="font-weight: normal; 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background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Politics of Bees Turns Science on its Head -- Europe Bans <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Neonics </span>While Local Be<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ekeepers, Scientists Say Action is Precipitous</span></font></h1></hgroup><div class="article_body article" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div class="body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div class="body_inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div id="article_container_0_rec" class="rec_ad ad_initialized article_body_ad" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 30px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; clear: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/7175/fdc.forbes/article-new_2container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As <a href="http://www.jonentine.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jon Entine</a> of the <a href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Genetic Literacy Project reports</a>,</span> in a move it says will protect bees, the European Commission announced on Monday that it <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/business/global/30iht-eubees30.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">would impose</a> a two-year ban on neonicotinoid insecticides, although a sharp divide remains whether politics or science is driving this policy change.</font></strong></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although a vote by the 27 member states of the European Union to suspend use of the insecticides failed to reach a qualified majority—voting in the EU is weighted, and Britain, Italy and many other nations remain steadfastly opposed—EU rules now give final discretion to the commissioners. They have announced that the ban will likely become effective at the end of the year even though the scientific questions as to what has caused the bee deaths remain largely unanswered.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Farmers in Europe and elsewhere are almost universally <a href="http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/arable/neonicotinoids-pose-low-risk-to-bees-defra-studies-show/54485.article" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">opposed</a> to even a temporary ban absent definitive real world research, calling it reckless.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> As they note, because bans exist on more toxic organophosphates—the chemicals that neonics replaced because of their more benign safety profile—there are no real alternatives.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Farmers scoff at activist claims that comprehensive spraying programs could suddenly be replaced by crop rotations or the use of natural pest predators—the tools of organic farmers who produce only a fraction of the volume required by commercial farms to feed growing populations. It’s estimated that without neonics or a suitable replacement, farmers could face losses estimated by one industry study as <a href="http://www.neonicreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/HFFA%20Report.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background: transparent;">$5.78 billion</a> per year in Europe alone—and many multiples of that if a ban is instituted in the United States and other major agricultural economies, with the costs passed on to consumers.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EU legislators were pressed hard to vote for the ban by anti-chemical campaigners, who have maintained that periodic mass bee deaths over the past 8 years can be linked to increased use of neonicotinoids. Neonics, as they are often called, are a new class of systemic pesticide popular in the US, Australia, Europe and elsewhere to help corn, soy, cotton, canola and citrus farmers. They were adopted over the past 20 years as a less toxic replacement of organophosphate pesticides, which are known to kill bees and wildlife, and have been linked to health problems in workers.</font></p><div id="article_container_0_loge" class="loge_ad ad_initialized article_body_ad" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 30px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; clear: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/7175/fdc.forbes/article-new_3container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neonics replaced more toxic alternatives</font></strong></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Neonicotinoids are extremely effective. Applied to the soil, sprayed on the crop or used as a seed treatment, they are taken up in the plant, discouraging pests from wrecking havoc on crops.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The seed treatment lowers the amount of pesticide used 10 to 20 fold,</span> decreasing the need for open spraying of the plant, a genuine sustainability benefit. But the environmentalist community has coalesced around the belief that neonics, while causing no or limited harm in Australia, the canola fields in Canada, and elsewhere, is responsible for scattered colony collapses in Europe and the United States.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Although the EC announcement was not unexpected—a political decision by a legislative body guided by </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">precautionary politics </span>on science issues, from chemicals to natural gas to nuclear energy to biotechnology—it left unaddressed the question of the spate of bee deaths that have cropped up in some regions in recent years.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Neonics were phased in without incident in the 1990s. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Only in 2004 — coincidentally with the spread of deadly <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0328-01.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">varroa mites</a> </span>and their increasing resistance to the pesticides beekeepers use to keep them under control — did activists begin looking for alternative explanations. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They first <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/death-of-the-bees-genetically-modified-crops-and-the-decline-of-bee-colonies-in-north-america/25950" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">blamed GMOs</a>.</span> “There are many reasons given to the decline in Bees, but one argument that matters most is the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)…,” argued the anti-globalization group Global Research. But as GMOs have gained favor with the science community, the focus of activist groups shifted and a new culprit was settled upon: neonicotinoids.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the past year, advocacy groups dramatically intensified their campaigns, targeting legislative bodies in Europe, which, under the precautionary principle of ‘better safe than sorry,’ often pass restrictive legislation even in the absence of persuasive empirical evidence. That’s what’s unfolding now.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The research on bee colony deaths is dicey—and often political. Last year, one <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6079/351" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">study</a>showed that bumblebees exposed to high doses of the neonic imidacloprid in the lab, then released to forage in the field, had sharply reduced colony growth rates and produced 85 percent fewer queens to found new colonies. A <a href="http://www.trust.org/item/?map=honeybee-homicide-case-against-syngenta-pesticide-unproven/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">later study</a> savaged those findings, demonstrating that the scientist had failed to adequately account for the birth of new bees, a major oversight, rendering the conclusions dubious at best. In another<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6079/348" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">study</a>, more than 30 percent of free-ranging honeybees whose <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21958547" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">brains were doused</a> with the neonic thiamethoxam—which is not the way bees encounter the chemical in the real world— got confused, failing to return to the hive. The issue took a sharp turn in January when the European Food Safety Authority issued <a href="http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/130116.htm?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=infocus&utm_campaign=beehealth" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">three studies</a> raising questions about the potential role of neonics in this latest wave of bee deaths. The studies did not link the pesticides to the collapse of whole bee colonies, but were still relied upon by EFSA for its recommendation of a pr<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ecautionary ban.</span></font></p><div id="article_container_0_recx_0" class="recx_ad ad_initialized article_body_ad" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 30px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; clear: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/7175/fdc.forbes/article-new_4container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Real world experience points to mites, colony management as more likely culprits</font></strong></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Standing opposed to these lab results are provocative real world case studies in Canada, the UK and Australia. Canola is grown commercially mostly on the prairies in Canada, the largest single producer of canola in the world with more than 50,000 producers and 16 million acres. It’s a nutritionally rich crop for bees. Approximately 300,000 colonies harvest open pollinated canola. Although neonicotinoids are widely used to protect canola from pests, Canadian bee populations have been largely unaffected and produce around 50 million pounds of canola honey. An Ontario field study funded by Bayer appears to back up the real life evidence challenging the activist doomsday scenario. It <a href="http://www.michiganbees.org/2013/ontario-field-study-finds-no-link-between-seed-treatments-bee-deaths/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">found</a> no difference in colony health between hives exposed to neonics and those that weren’t, in real life conditions.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The doses the bees are exposed to [in lab studies] are far above what a realistic field dose exposure would be,” says Dr. Cynthia Scott-Dupree, head of the Ontario study. Canadian canola farmers say they have had 10 years of large-scale use of neonics on canola with no observed ill effect.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Britain’s rapeseed crop, which is similar to canola but has a high acid content and is generally produced for animal feed, has not experienced serious bee losses either—which is one of the reasons the government opposed the ban. The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (<a href="http://www.defra.gov.uk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">DEFRA</a>) <a href="http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/pb13937-neonicotinoid-bees-20130326.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">reevaluate</a>d the existing research earlier this year, concluding, “The risk to bee populations from neonics, as they are currently used, is low.” The <a href="http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/pb13937-neonicotinoid-bees-20130326.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">DEFRA study</a> noted that oilseed rape (OSR) “requires insect pollinators to support its productivity. The fact that OSR treated with neonicotinoids has been a productive crop for over a decade in the UK is itself evidence that pollinator populations, including bees, are not being reduced by the presence of neonicotinoids.” The EC ignored the DEFRA report.</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.bbka.org.uk/files/pressreleases/bbka_response_to_eac_report_5_april_2013_1365163228.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Many British beekeepers</a> also oppose the ban. “Whilst the [British Bee Keepers Association] is concerned about the possible damage that these substances may be inflicting on pollinators, it notes that unequivocal field based studies have not been conducted and the evidence is incomplete. … [T]he authors of the report still appear to be unable to demonstrate deleterious effects of neonicotinoids on honey bees managed by beekeepers in the UK and we renew our call for further investigations to reassure us that these products can be used safely with regard to honey bees.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bee experts—as opposed to anti-chemical campaigners that see banning neonics as a key piece of their overall advocacy strategy—are increasingly wary of this myopic focus on neonics. Hannah Nordhaus, author of the Beekeeper’s Lament, and widely regarded as a sober voice in this debate, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2013/04/11/science-collapse-disorder-the-real-story-behind-neonics-and-mass-bee-deaths/" class="exit_trigger_set" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">weighed in</a> after a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2013/04/11/science-collapse-disorder-the-real-story-behind-neonics-and-mass-bee-deaths/" class="exit_trigger_set" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">prior article</a> I had written for <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Forbes </em>raising similar issues:</font></p><div id="article_container_0_recx_1" class="recx_ad ad_initialized article_body_ad rec_ad_wide" style="line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 30px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; clear: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/7175/fdc.forbes/article-new_5container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 25px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; position: relative; z-index: 0; left: 25px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 7px 25px 14px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; position: relative; left: -25px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Great piece, Jon. CCD, as a diagnosis was first identified in 2006, but there have been mysterious disappearances of bees periodically since the nineteenth century (and well before…. Some occurrences did sound similar to CCD, though CCD is such a vague and difficult diagnosis (every time a bee dies these days someone calls it CCD) that it’s impossible to know. Nonetheless, it is true that there have been mass disappearances well before neonics ever appeared on the scene. Bees die from all sorts of things, and especially from varroa mites.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 7px 25px 14px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; position: relative; left: -25px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7FCgF0BwlDGZXZVWFFqUUtRTGl5Uzdyb21VRV9Bdw/edit?pli=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Harvard study</a> [the so-called ‘silver bullet’ research cited by anti-neonic activists]… it is, of all the studies on neonics and bee deaths that have come out, arguably the worst–”embarrassing” was the word I heard from scientists I interviewed about it. Peer reviewed, I suppose, but in a journal no one in the entomology world had ever heard of when it came out. … It makes sense to me that neonics, as persistent and systemic as they are, could very well hurt bees and other pollinators at sub-lethal levels, but the science just isn’t convincing yet, to me anyway, and as Jon points out, there are places where they use neonics where the bees are doing fine (though I have gotten some feedback from people about the Australian situation — they claim beekeepers there are losing bees but simply aren’t reporting it, and that most beekeepers there are in the bush, not located near farm crops that could be treated with neonics).</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nordhaus’ skepticism is matched by Randy Oliver, who runs the popular scientificbeekeeping.com website, also manages a 500 colony migratory operation in California—which is ground zero for the anti neonics movement. He writes regularly for the<a href="http://www.americanbeejournal.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Bee Journal</em></a> and other publications, and believes, like most bee experts and smaller beekeepers, that there has been a rush to judgment in solely targeting neonics.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scientific Beekeeping’s Randy Oliver weighs in[nothing past 2013?]</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; float: none; width: auto; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oliver has posted a <a href="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/5fd2b1aa990e63193af2a573d/files/What_Happened_to_the_Bees_This_Spring2013_opt.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">comprehensive</a> analysis of what he believes is behind this past winter and spring’s upsurge in bee deaths. He lays the blame squarely on weather and bee management practices, which correlate more closely with bee survival rates than does the use of neonics. In a section titled “The Lynch Mob,” Oliver discusses the media and activists penchant to look for simple solutions regardless of the facts. “Despite the fact that a wide range of bee-toxic insecticides are being applied (often during bloom) to corn, soy, sunflowers, alfalfa, cotton and other major crops, if you Google anything about insecticide use, you’ll quickly find that the blogosphere focuses only upon the putative link between single class of insecticides—the neonicotinoids—and the decline of pollinators.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“People look at me incredulously when I point out there is zero firm evidence to date that neonic seed treatments are a serious problem,” he adds. “But the notion that all honey bee problems are caused by an insidious new insecticide resonates with a distrustful public, and has firmly established itself as ‘common knowledge.’ But repeating something does not make it true!” Oliver then outlines the variety of likely contributors to bee deaths—the kind of comprehensive and nuanced review absent not only from advocacy group analyses but also from many government agencies, the EC included.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is also a fascinating political backstory within the beekeeper community, particularly in the US. There seems to be a split between local beekeepers, which for the most part don’t see neonics as the primary culprit and the larger, more commercial industrial outfits, some of which are notorious for their sloppy bee management practices. In particular, they are known to liberally douse their bees with anti-virus chemicals whether they need them or not—all of which means that colony management and overuse of antibiotics could explain a lot of what’s going on.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bee management practices go a long way toward explaining the spike in bee deaths in California recently. It’s estimated that 1.6 million (out of 2.5 million) of all US hives are trucked to the West Coast each year, mostly to pollinate the almond crop, which dramatically increases external stressors from travel, viruses and parasites like varroa. That’s where most of the problems are, one beekeeper wrote to me recently:</font></p><div id="article_container_0_recx_2" class="recx_ad ad_initialized article_body_ad rec_ad_wide" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 30px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; clear: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/7175/fdc.forbes/article-new_6container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Every winter for years, beekeepers have been taking their hives to California for the biggest pollination event in the world. The majority of the country’s bees are placed cheek to jowl in an environment that consists of one flowering crop: almonds. Why do they do this? To provide food for the nation? No, they get cash for every hive they can bring. The almond growers are feeding the nation, then? Nope. 70% of the crop is sold overseas. So, the beekeepers cram their hives together, risking the transmission of whatever viral infections they have, and then they haul them back to their home state, possibly to bring infections to homegrown hives, which are never trucked about. And to add insult to injury, the beekeepers are now suing the EPA, probably hoping to make a case for some huge subsidy (to pay their trucking costs?). If people really cared about bees, they would purchase honey and support local beekeepers.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a bizarre political twist, in their zeal to target neonics or any chemical for that matter, the Center for Food Safety and other advocacy groups have forged pacts with some of the most notorious and worst performing commercial beekeeping operations, who believe they can ride the activist outrage to a <b>large legal settlement.</b><b> </b>They claim the government authorized the use of neonics without proper evaluation—which considering the years of evaluation that led to its introduction, and the broad embrace of the product by both farmers and beekeepers, is ludicrous. The suit is a cynical act of expediency in which science is sacrificed to tort politics.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The settled narrative—blame it on neonics—at this early juncture conjures up thoughts of a classic small town murder case where there is a clamor for instant ‘justice’. That translates into targeting the most vulnerable suspect, selecting and discarding whatever evidence fits the theory and then holding kangaroo court. The accused is then banished and everyone goes home, feeling smug that the town is safe. They just don’t want to think about the problem anymore. Just string ‘em up and call it a day.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 161.656px 21px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 27px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That might have worked in small town Oklahoma in the 1850s, but its not any way to do sober science, especially when so many jobs are linked to such a catastrophic decision—regardless of what the evidence eventually might show. But when the research comes in and the complicated facts emerge, suddenly we’ll have an unmanageable environmental and an economic crisis on our hands, all because we didn’t have the patience to do some basic scientific legwork. That’s scandalous.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sci bee guy he refs?</font></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hmmn</font></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Neonics in Ontario</font></strong></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A recent hotbed of anti-neonic activism is Ontario, Canada, in which an unlikely coalition of a few beekeepers and some media-savvy NGO’s is pushing the government to ban these insecticides. Let me state very clearly that I myself support organic and sustainable farming, use of Integrated Pest Management, and greatly reduced use of pesticides. That said, I feel that any pesticide regulations, and agricultural recommendations, should be based upon sound science.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An exemplar of this philosophy is Dr. Terry Daynard, formerly a professor and Assistant Dean of the Ontario Agricultural College, and currently a farmer himself. Daynard recently received the “2014 Farm & Food Care Champion” award from<a href="http://www.farmfoodcare.org/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Farm and Food Care.org</a>, with the introduction that “Daynard is a champion of agriculture in many ways. He is respected as a farmer, scientist, innovator and agricultural advocate, speaking up and advocating sound science even in the presence of criticism by those that don’t agree with him.”</font></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Daynard applies a sound and scientific assessment of how misinformation can taint well-intentioned environmental regulation in his blog “<a href="http://tdaynard.com/2014/12/14/critique-of-a-proposal-for-enhancing-pollinator-health-and-reducing-a-proposal-for-enhancing-pollinator-health-and-reducing-the-use-of-neonicotinoid-pesticides-in-ontario-discussion-paper-by-the-2/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Critique of “A Proposal for Enhancing Pollinator Health</a>.””</font></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We all want to minimize agriculture’s negative effects on the environment. This includes greatly reducing our reliance upon pesticides. But such reduction needs to evolve as we learn (or re learn) alternate and more sustainable strategies for growing food. This is best done by rational and sober scientific assessment of current and alternative practices. I commend Dr. Daynard pointing this out.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I’m also impressed by a recent blog by Dr. David Zaruk, who is a </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Risk Governance Analyst at </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Risk </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Perception Management and an Assistant Professor Adjunct in Communications at Vesalius College</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, VUB, and Facultés universitaires St-Louis in Brussels. He blogs under the name of the “Risk Monger.” He recently posted about the real-life agricultural and ecological consequences of the politically- (as opposed to scientifically-) motivated suspension of neonic seed treatments in the EU. </span><a title="The “Save the Bees” Ban: Failed Crops and another Precautionary Fail: Who is to Blame?" href="http://risk-monger.blogactiv.eu/2014/09/30/the-save-the-bees-ban-failed-crops-and-another-precautionary-fail-who-is-to-blame/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://risk-monger.blogactiv.eu/2014/09/30/the-save-the-bees-ban-failed-crops-and-another-precautionary-fail-who-is-to-blame/</a></font></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read previous blogs here:</font></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><a title="News and blogs page" href="http://scientificbeekeeping.com/news-and-blogs-page/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://scientificbeekeeping.com/news-and-blogs-page/</font></a></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dec 2, 2013 If you have interest in the recent petitions to ban the neonics, I recommend reading a letter to the respected journal Nature by a British bee researcher, Lynn Dicks, in which she points out the problems with hurried setting of policy based upon political pressure rather than upon careful scientific evaluation of the evidence <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/bees-lies-and-evidence-based-policy-1.12443" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.nature.com/news/bees-lies-and-evidence-based-policy-1.12443</a></font></p></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">h<b>arvard study</b>: In situ replication of honey bee colony collapse disorder </span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px;">
</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Chensheng LU1</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center West, Boston, MA, USA 2</font></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px;">
</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Worcester County Beekeepers Association, Northbridge, MA, USA 3</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px;">
</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Worcester County Beekeepers Association, Holden, MA, USA </span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px;">
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</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: transparent;">mojo: </span><span style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And now, a </span><a href="http://www.bulletinofinsectology.org/pdfarticles/vol67-2014-125-130lu.pdf" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">new Harvard study</a><span style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> fingers neonics as </span><em style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the</em><span style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> key driver of colony collapse disorder. The experiment couldn't have been simpler. Working with nearby beekeepers, Harvard researcher Chensheng Lu and his team treated 12 colonies with tiny levels of neonics and kept six control hives free of the popular chemicals. All 18 hives made it through summer without any apparent trouble. </span><span style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Come winter, though, the<b> bees in six of the treated hives vanished, leaving behind empty colonies—the classic behavior of colony collapse disorder</b></span><span style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>.</b> None of the six control hives experienced a CCD-style disappearing act, although one did succumb to a common-to-bees gut pathogen called nosema....</span></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other studies have shown negative "sublethal" impacts of neonics on bees—that is, that the chemicals harm bees in subtle ways at doses too low to kill them outright. For example, this 2012 <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6079/348" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em>Science</em> paper</a> found that tiny amounts of the chemicals significantly affects bees' ability to find their way back to their hives—"at levels that could put a colony at risk of collapse." Another <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461500" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2012 study</a>, also published in <em>Science</em>, found that bumblebees exposed to "field-realistic levels" of a neonicotinoid called imidacloprid exhibited a severely diminished capacity to produce new queens. What makes the new Harvard study remarkable is that it actually simulated colony collapse disorder—neonic-treated bees suddenly abandoned hives that had been healthy all summer, while untreated bees hung around and repopulated their hives.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the paper, the authors call the spectacle of abandoned hives "striking and perplexing" because "honeybees normally do not abandon their hives during the winter." More research is needed to identify the mechanism by which neonic pesticides trigger the evacuations, they write, but the results point to "impairment of honeybee neurological functions, specifically memory, cognition, or behavior, as the results from the chronic sublethal neonicotinoid exposure." </font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lu told me he thinks that with this study, coming on the heels of a similar one he published in 2012, the CCD mystery has been solved.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For its part, the pesticide industry is doing its best to shroud the phenomenon in uncertainty, promoting a "multifactorial" explanation that points the finger at mites, viruses, and "many other factors, but not…the use of insecticides," as neonic producer Bayer puts it in its </span><a href="http://beecare.bayer.com/bilder/upload/dynamicContentFull/Publications/Honey_Bee_Healthhfatff9d.pdf" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Honey Bee Health" pamphlet.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> As for Lu's study, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bayer is dismissive.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In a </span><a href="http://www.agprofessional.com/news/Harvard-research-and-Bayer-at-odds-about-bee-deaths-259073661.html?view=all" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">response</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> published on the trade website Ag Professional, Bayer accused Lu of overdosing the bees in his study:</span></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 2em 0px; line-height: 1.8em; padding-left: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; padding-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feeding honey bees levels of neonicotinoids greater than 10 times what they would normally encounter is more than unrealistic—it is deceptive and represents a disservice to genuine scientific investigation related to honey bee health.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an email, Lu disputed this attack. He noted that the dose used, 0.74 micrograms per bee per day over 13 weeks, is actually quite tiny—by contrast, a grain of table salt weighs 64,800 micrograms. The level used in the study is also well below what scientists call the median lethal dose (LCD50) for neonics<strong>—</strong>that is, the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population. Lu stressed that the treated bees showed no ill effects during the 13 weeks of the feeding—it was only well after exposure to the pesticides, during the winter, that they fled their hives.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bayer also took issue with the length of the exposure, arguing that it went on too long. "Given the artificially high levels tested over 13 consecutive weeks, the colony failure rates observed are completely expected," the company claimed in its statement. Lu countered that in New England, where he performed the experiment, bees can forage outside from March to September—30 weeks. In other parts of the country, he added, bees can forage for as long as 41 weeks.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For context on Lu's paper, I contacted Jeff Pettis, a USDA bee researcher who has participated in several papers on the recent decline of honeybee health—including a </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3264871/?tool=pubmed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2012 study</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> showing that bees exposed to tiny levels of a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">neonic called imidacloprid were significantly more prone to succumb to the gut pathogen nosema than unexposed bees.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Pettis told me that he thought Lu's study "adds to the list" of studies showing that pesticides pose a significant threat to honeybees. But he's not ready to declare a smoking gun—Lu's sample size, 12 treated hives and six controls, is too small, he says, to draw such a conclusion...</span>
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