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</div><div><div>Sheril R. Kirshenbaum</div><div>@Sheril_</div><div>·</div><div>Jul 9, 2018</div><div>Replying to </div><div>@JoshRosenau</div><div> </div><div>@HankCampbell</div><div> and 7 others</div><div>Hey </div><div>@aetiology</div><div> </div><div>@BoraZ</div><div> </div><div>@richmeisel</div><div> </div><div>@razibkhan</div><div> </div><div>@pzmyers</div><div> </div><div>@50_Shades0fGreg</div><div> </div><div>@gregladen</div><div> </div><div>@ZooBorns</div><div> </div><div>@RebeccaSkloot</div><div> </div><div>@carlzimmer</div><div> </div><div>@mnitabach</div><div> </div><div>@drugmonkeyblog</div><div> </div><div>@docfreeride</div><div> </div><div>@bioephemera</div><div> </div><div>@scicurious</div><div> </div><div>@Laelaps</div><div> </div><div>@mikethemadbiol</div><div> </div><div>@DrCraigMc</div><div> </div><div>@WhySharksMatter</div><div> </div><div>@SbExpats</div><div> I'm just catching up. Thoughts?</div><div>John S. Wilkins</div><div>@john_s_wilkins</div><div>·</div><div>Jul 9, 2018</div><div>I think we should get a lawyer to demand our old blogs be immediately removed, as the conditions under which we signed up are no longer respected.</div><div>MiketheMadBiologist</div><div>@mikethemadbiol</div><div>·</div><div>Jul 9, 2018</div><div>I'm catching up too. If </div><div>@JoshRosenau</div><div> is right (no reason he isn't), then I want my stuff pulled. Realistically I doubt they make any $ of my  stuff, but I'm not down w/Hitler apologists...faulty cancer claim drives weed killer's lawsuit..bad code...

https://twitter.com/mbalter"...bad code ...thousands of lawsuits around the nation claim glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup—causes cancer. These cases are based on pretty much zero evidence, but if trial lawyers can get a jury to accept their false narrative, thousands of more cases may proceed. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first case to reach trial involves DeWayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who applied Roundup to control weeds during his employment from 2012 to 2015. Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in August 2014, which </span><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/3:2016cv01244/296571/52/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">his case claims</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is a “direct and proximate result” of his exposure to Roundup</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. No doubt, Johnson’s cancer is truly tragic, yet it’s highly unlikely to have anything to do with glyphosate. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">Let’s look at the science. Numerous governmental bodies around the world have concluded glyphosate does not cause cancer in humans. For example, a 2016 <a href="http://www.who.int/foodsafety/jmprsummary2016.pdf?ua=1" style="">evaluation</a> by the World Health Organization’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) notes: “[T]he only large cohort study of high quality found no evidence of an association at any exposure level.” In other words, the best quality research shows no evidence of cancer from glyphosate. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">The only “evidence” supposedly comes from rodent studies. Yet the FAO study pointed out that rat studies found no association with cancer; only mice that were administered very high doses formed tumors. Such studies reveal little if anything about risks to humans exposed to very low amounts of the chemical. Indeed, many chemicals found in a healthy diet—including those that <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232620/" style="">naturally form in fruits and vegetables</a> such as carrots, celery, and lettuce—cause tumors in rodents when administered in massive doses. These tests remind us that it’s the dose that makes the poison. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">Considering all this evidence, the FAO concluded that “glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet.” EPA’s 2017 <a href="https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-releases-draft-risk-assessments-glyphosate" style="">draft risk assessment</a> also concluded “glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans,” which is the <a href="https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2015.4302" style="">same conclusion</a> drawn by the European Food Safety Authority in 2015.   </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">The lawsuits proceed only because a single research body—the <a href="https://www.iarc.fr/" style="">International Agency for Research on Cancer</a> (IARC)—<a href="http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-10.pdf" style="">dubbed glyphosate</a> a “probable carcinogen” in 2015. IARC classifications are developed by ad hoc working groups that are formed periodically to review science and classify chemicals based on cancer-causing potential. Working groups might label a chemical carcinogenic or place it within one of several lower-tier categories of “probably,” “possibly,” “not classifiable”, or “probably not” carcinogenic. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">These IARC classifications are, by and large, meaningless because they only assess hazard, which is just the first step in risk assessment. A hazard assessment simply considers whether at some exposure level and under some circumstance a substance might pose a risk. The next steps consider at what doses and potency might a chemical pose risks and whether actual human exposures are significant enough to pose risks. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">During congressional hearings in early 2018, Dr. Timothy Pastoor, CEO of Pastoor Science Communications, <a href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-115-SY-WState-TPastoor-20180206.pdf" style="">pointed out</a> the absurdities of IARC’s incomplete approach. Exposure is crucial to understanding risk, he explained. For example, aspirin is a valuable pain reliever at low exposures but deadly at high ones. Because IARC fails to consider potency and exposure levels, the agency ranks plutonium and salty fish in same carcinogenic category, which is clearly absurd. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">Indeed, many of IARC’s classifications are nonsensical. Consider the fact that the agency lists “smoking tobacco” in the same category with <a href="http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol100C/mono100C-15.pdf" style="">wood dust</a>, <a href="http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol100F/mono100F-35.pdf" style="">painting houses</a> for a living, and even eating <a href="http://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Evaluation-Of-Carcinogenic-Risks-To-Humans/Red-Meat-And-Processed-Meat-2018" style="">bologna sandwiches</a>. Yet you can’t even begin to compare the theoretical risks associated with eating bologna or working as a painter with actual smoking-related deaths that total nearly <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/" style="">half a million</a> annually in the United States alone. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">IARC places glyphosate in a lower-risk category of “probably” carcinogenic. Among other probable carcinogens are a wide range of industrial chemicals as well as diseases such as <a href="https://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol104/mono104.pdf" style="">Malaria</a> and the <a href="https://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol104/mono104.pdf" style="">human papillomavirus</a> type 68, and more mundane things like <a href="http://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Evaluation-Of-Carcinogenic-Risks-To-Humans/Red-Meat-And-Processed-Meat-2018" style="">red meat</a>, <a href="https://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol99/mono99-17.pdf" style="">being a hairdresser</a>, or “<a href="https://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol98/mono98-8.pdf" style="">shift working</a>” that disrupts regular sleep hours. <a href="http://publications.iarc.fr/566" style="">Coffee</a> is fine, but don’t drink it too hot, because <a href="http://publications.iarc.fr/566" style="">hot beverages</a> are also “probably carcinogenic.” </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">IARC’s faulty process is compounded by the fact that its decisions appear tainted by anti-chemical ideologies and conflicts of interest. In the glyphosate case, IARC enlisted Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) activist Christiopher Portier to help as an “advisor” on the decision. EDF is an anti-chemical activist group, which should have no influence over what is supposed to be a purely scientific evaluation. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">An <a href="https://risk-monger.com/2017/10/13/greed-lies-and-glyphosate-the-portier-papers/" style="">exposé</a> by blogger David Zauk <a href="https://risk-monger.com/issues/agriculture/glyphosate-and-iarc-gate/" style="">revealed</a> the fact that Portier also had a serious financial conflict of interest. Within a week of the IARC classification, attorneys that had been developing lawsuits against Monsanto retained Poitier as an expert witness. After signing with the law firm, Portier collected more than $160,000 for his services while trotting the globe lobbying for government bans on glyphosate, all without disclosing who compensated him. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">If that were not bad enough, Reuters’ investigative reporter Kate Kelland <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc-glyphosate/" style="">discovered</a> that the IARC monograph was essentially doctored at the last minute to change the final conclusion. Kelland reported: “Reuters found 10 significant changes that were made between the draft chapter on animal studies and the published version of IARC’s glyphosate assessment. In each case, a negative conclusion about glyphosate leading to tumors was either deleted or replaced with a neutral or positive one. Reuters was unable to determine who made the changes.”           </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;">No court of law—or anyone else for that matter—should take any IARC decision seriously. Unfortunately, trial lawyers may be even more talented than IARC in peddling self-serving false narratives. Hopefully, Monsanto will fight this to the bitter end rather than settle because one settlement will lead to more, and eventually push a valuable product out of the marketplace for no good reason. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;" /></div><div id="new-sb-column-sidebar" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 650px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin-bottom: 10px; background-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" sbv2="sbv2" images="images" blog_profile_bg.png="blog_profile_bg.png" white-space="white-space" normal="normal"><div id="author-information" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="username" style="font-weight: bold; display: block;"><a href="https://www.science20.com/angela_logomasini" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Angela Logomasini</a></span></div><div class="section" style="border-top: 4px solid rgb(142, 149, 221); margin: 10px 5px;"><strong class="title" style="text-transform: uppercase; 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</div><div>COVID-19 Called a Model for the Climate-Change Agenda in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons</div><div>By Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Sep 20, 2021 Updated Sep 20, 2021  0</div><div>
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</div><div>TUCSO<b>N, Ariz.,</b> Sept. 20, 2021 <b>/PRNewswire/ -</b>- In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared, "Climate change is the greatest health challenge of the 21st century, and threatens all aspects of the society in which we live." Now COVID-19 has top billing as the existential health threat, but the proposed response is the same, <b>writes Marc Morano in the fall issue of issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.</b></div><div><b>
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</div><div>The response entails global governance by appointed "experts," central planning, and heavy regulation of virtually all human endeavors. UN Secretary General António Guterres said the pandemic "could create an opportunity to rebuild the global economy along more sustainable lines."</div><div>
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</div><div>Disappointed at the tepid response to their exhortations, climate activists "praised the response to COVID with almost palpable jealousy," Morano writes. The regime they advocate is very similar to the COVID-10 response. "If you like living under coronavirus fears and government-mandated lockdowns, then you'll love living under a climate emergency," Morano states.</div><div>
</div><div>The entire world shut down. Airline travel ground to a halt. Morano quotes Spanish scientist Martín López Corredoira: "Neither Greenpeace, nor Greta Thunberg, nor any other individual or collective organization have achieved so much in favor of the health of the planet in such a short time…. A miracle happened…. It is certainly not very good for the economy in general, but it is fantastic for the environment."</div><div>
</div><div>Both with climate change and COVID-19, science has been co-opted to support policy. Morano states. "The National Climate Assessment…picks years and data points as needed to justify a policy. With COVID-19, the public must be kept in fear in order for the public health bureaucracy to exert the kind of control they have wanted for decades." Constantly publishing death tolls is a tactic climate activists would like to mimic, Morano suggests, citing a list of conditions, including cancer and car crashes, which might be linked to climate change.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>"The response to COVID-19 has mutated into totalitarianism," </b>Morano concludes. He asks whether there is any hope for overcoming the symbiotic public health/climate change agenda. Massive amounts are invested in it. But, he writes. "We have reason, logic, and science on our side. We need only courage, resolve, and hard work, and we will prevail."</div><div>
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</div><div>This article originally ran on curated.<b>tncontentexchange.com.</b></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">vaping, formladyhyde 820</font></div><div><a href="https://www.science20.com/frank_schnell/formaldehyde_the_carcinogen_that_wasnt-248231"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.science20.com/frank_schnell/formaldehyde_the_carcinogen_that_wasnt-248231</font></a></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2x?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx ix</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My Comment To EPA Recommending <b>Tyrone Hayes</b> Not Be Admitted To The FIFRA SAP</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Hank Campbell | <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">August 13th 2019 </span>07:15 AM | Print | E-mail</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">User pic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hank Campbell</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Comments opened on the recent EPA nominations to serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) established under section 25(d) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), since three member terms will expire during the next year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The name at number 7 on the list(1) is of particular concern, because he would be serving on an EPA SAP after stating that the EPA SAP once called about a study he got published in PNAS was collaborating with pesticide companies. That, coupled with his reputation as a serial misogynist, would be an unneeded distraction for an advisory body that is supposed to be neutral arbiters of science issues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For that reason, I recommended he not be among the three selected.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My comment is reproduced below (and you can leave your own here) but two footnotes are not in the comment, since (1) is the EPA list of nominees itself and (2) it seems unkind to torment women at Syngenta who were harassed repeatedly by Hayes by adding them into an EPA document.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subject: Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0448</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Professor Tyrone Hayes of Berkeley, #7, is not a good choice for this EPA SAP because his seminal work, which caused an EPA SAP to be called, has never been validated</b>. It was not even used in the SAP his work caused to be called because he refused to turn over his data to EPA, claiming that EPA was colluding with pesticide companies. That is a not a constructive voice for an advisory body. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As has been well documented, he has an agenda against a particular company and his reputation for sexual harassment (http://gawker.com/5620781/dr-tyrone-hayes-biologist-cock-fixated-megalom...) against females of <b>Syngenta (now ChemChina</b>) would be a distraction from the mission of the SAP. The story would instead be advocates for women talking on social media about why the administration is giving a position of importance to a scientist who regards women so poorly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is also frequently sent on trips funded by groups like Pesticide Action Network, against products the SAP could be called on to investigate. That is a conflict of interest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why He Matters</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);">In 2002 Professor Hayes and a group of his subordinates got a paper titled "Hermaphroditic, demasculinized frogs after exposure to the herbicide atrazine at low ecologically relevant doses" published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.full.pdf</span>). It claimed that field level exposures of an herbicide, atrazine, was resulting in the vocal abilities of frogs being warped. As frogs are an indicator species, this low dose result caused a great deal of concern, but to scientists "Subtle Effects" is codeword for homeopathy so there was interest in seeing his data and replicating his work. He refused to share his data and his result was not replicated.</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);">As later exposed by the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/articles/hank-campbell-the-corruption-of-peer-revi...), his paper was not peer-reviewed, it was hand-walked past peer review by a member of the Academy. His friend David Wake, whose wife was running Hayes' department, used a then-existing "courtesy" mechanism to review the paper himself </span>(they changed that policy a few weeks after the WSJ story - http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/10/pnas-narrows-pathway-to-publication...). </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wake never asked Hayes to include the data, which any independent peer reviewer would have done. After the paper came out concluding that frog sexualization was being harmed by the Syngenta product named atrazine, and EPA convened a SAP, EPA did its own analysis and concluded there was no basis for the claims made by Hayes. They couldn't even use his paper, because he refused to show it to them. The science community concluded that Hayes likely made statistical errors that were not caught and does not want his paper retracted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anne Lindsay, Deputy Director of the Office of. Pesticide Programs (OPP) at the US Environmental Protection Agency, even said of the claims by Professor Hayes after the SAP was called due to his allegations, “It has been claimed that research on frogs shows that atrazine causes changes in the production of aromatase, an enzyme that is involved in the conversion of testosterone to estrogen. It has also been claimed that other scientists have shown similar effects in other species … There is no direct scientific information to assess this hypothesis.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA is already under constant attack and there is no reason to add a lightning-rod to what should be a neutral SAP by including someone who has a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> political, cultural, and scientific<b> agenda </b></span>against the products he would need to investigate.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Respectfully,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hank Campbell</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Science 2.0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTES:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(1) </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. Jeffrey Bloomquist, Ph.D.: Professor, Entomology and Nematology Department, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. Maria Braga, D.D.S., Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. Joseph Braun, R.N., M.S.P.H., Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. Celia Chen, Ph.D.: Director, Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program and Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. Susan Fisher, Ph.D.: Professor Emerita, Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6. Jean Harry, M.S., Ph.D.: Group Leader, Neurotoxicology Laboratory, National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.Start Printed Page 39835</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7.<b> Tyrone Hayes</b>, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8. Lucille Lange, Ph.D.: Research Psychologist, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9. James Lauderdale, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10. Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H.: Professor and Chair, Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11. Lorenz Neuwirth, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York (SUNY), Old Westbury, New York.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12. Edna Pereira, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director, Division of Translational Toxicology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13. Rebecca Smith, D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">14. John Swaddle, Ph.D.: Professor and Chair, Biology Department, College of William&Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">15. Christopher Weis, Ph.D.: Toxicology Liaison, National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Just one example, but his chronic abuse of women working for Syngenta became legend, at least among those of us who didn't have to live it. If he did it today, Berkeley might be forced to take action, though that is unclear, since women working in the private sector don't get the same respect by Berkeley as those they would have to see in the hallway.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">fef to gawker on emails</font></p><p><a href="https://gawker.com/5620781/dr-tyrone-hayes-biologist-cock-fixated-megalomaniac-email-addict"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://gawker.com/5620781/dr-tyrone-hayes-biologist-cock-fixated-megalomaniac-email-addict</font></a></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/24/glyphosate-gate-iarcs-scientific-fraud-12014">https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/24/glyphosate-gate-iarcs-scientific-fraud-12014</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BS berezow</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he first director of IARC (the International Agency for Research on Cancer), Dr. John Higginson, was also a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health Those were the glory days of IARC, which was founded for the purpose of identifying human carcinogens for further study and to guide health policy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, much has changed since 1965. Fifty-two years after its inception, IARC has become a fringe group, seemingly more interested in scaring people than identifying actual health threats. Any organization that <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/08/10/hot-beverages-world-health-cancer-coffee-column/88511276/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">declares bacon to be as dangerous as plutonium</a> has entirely lost its way.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Things started to unravel for IARC over a popular herbicide called glyphosate, which it considers a "probable human carcinogen." Every major science and regulatory body disagrees, including the <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/17/494301343/epa-weighs-in-on-glyphosate-says-it-doesnt-cause-cancer" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. EPA</a> and the <a href="https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/151112" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">European Food Safety Authority</a> (EFSA). Even the <a href="https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/who-clarifies-glyphosate-risks/1010208.article" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">World Health Organization</a>, which is the parent of IARC, believes that glyphosate doesn't cause cancer. What is going on?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We now have an answer. Thanks largely to the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.science20.com/david_zaruk/is_chris_portier_the_andrew_wakefield_of_pesticides-227402" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">investigative work</a> of David Zaruk on Science 2.0, </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/weedkiller-scientist-was-paid-120-000-by-cancer-lawyers-v0qggbrk6" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Times</em></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> reports that Christopher Portier, a key IARC advisor who lobbied to have glyphosate listed as a carcinogen, accepted $160,000 from trial lawyers representing cancer patients who stood to profit handsomely by suing glyphosate manufacturers. Mr. Portier's failure to disclose such an obvious conflict of interest has exploded into a textbook case of scientific fraud.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Glyphosate-gate: A Case of Scientific Fraud</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It gets worse. Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc-glyphosate/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a> that evidence that glyphosate was harmless was intentionally edited out of an IARC monograph. The monograph also distorted other studies it cited, for instance, by concluding that the research found a link between glyphosate and cancer when the opposite was true. Furthermore, Reuters writes that "the agency won't say who made the changes or why." Sixteen scientists contacted by Reuters refused to answer any questions about the edits. That's not how science operates; that's how Fight Club operates.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Truly, it is difficult to overstate the seriousness of what IARC and Mr. Portier have done. As</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Dr. Zaruk writes for <a href="https://risk-monger.com/2017/10/23/iarcgate-six-reasons-why-iarcs-head-christopher-wild-must-be-fired/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">his Risk-Monger site</a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">such behavior undermines not only the World Health Organization but the scientific enterprise itself. How can people trust health advice when the regulators who dispense it can be bought off by trial lawyers?</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sometimes, Money Matters</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>At ACSH, we believe that good science is good regardless of who pays for it -</b>- be it academia, the government, non-profits, or industry. Scientific research must be judged on its merits alone. That's why <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/23/if-you-cry-corporate-shill-youre-conspiracy-theorist-12008" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">people who cry, "Corporate shill!" are little more than conspiracy theorists</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, bad science is another issue entirely. The vast majority of the time, bad science is promulgated by researchers or journalists who aren't good at their jobs or don't know any better. Occasionally, bad science is promoted by people who are being bought off. This is one of those times.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IARC has severely and perhaps irreparably damaged the reputation of the World Health Organization. Besides, given the sheer number of regulatory bureaucrats who already exist in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere, IARC's role is redundant and only serves to add confusion rather than clarity.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It ought to be defunded and disbanded and we are recommending the U.S. government do just that.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In February, a blogger at journal publisher</span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Public Library of Science</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS), </em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> issued a random, unsubstantiated smear against the organization I now run, the American Council on Science and Health - </span><a href="http://blogs.plos.org/onscienceblogs/2015/02/27/cholesterol-coffee-ok-plus-head-transplants-soon/?source=acsh.org" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">she claimed, bizarrely, that we lost our credibility decades ago by being shills for Big Tobacco</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Ironically, she is an award-winning journalist. The American Council on Science and Health is famous for being anti-smoking - any journalist who was worth a darn would spend five seconds researching and know that. The walls are quite literally adorned with anti-smoking ads - but I was not at ACSH then so I said nothing.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then in April </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> was in the news because a man </span><a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2015/04/29/its-a-mans-world-for-one-peer-reviewer-at-least/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">kicked back a paper to a female author, ironically telling her that her paper would benefit from a man's insight</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. But I was not a female so I said nothing.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More recently </span><a href="http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2015/08/13/the-fight-over-transparency-round-two/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>PLOS</em> let two academics on an ideological bender</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">note: they removed it - archive<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818154312/http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2015/08/13/the-fight-over-transparency-round-two/" target="blank">here</a></em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) - one of them, ironically, claiming to be an expert in journalism (while not disclosing he is</span><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/health/disclosure/files/disclosure.pdf" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a consultant for the anti-science group Natural Resources Defense Council</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) and one of them, ironically, claiming to be an expert in ethics - </span><a href="http://www.science20.com/science_20/environmental_groups_continue_their_harassment_of_scientists-156785" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">smear a scientist</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> because his school took funding from Monsanto. </span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Well, finally I had to speak up, for an obvious reason;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came..." target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> invoking Pastor Martin Niemöller</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, if I don't speak up now there will be no one left when they come after me.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In that case, </span><a href="http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2015/08/13/the-fight-over-transparency-round-two/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the clunky, unsubstantiated smear job was about Professor Kevin Folta of the University of Florida</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a molecular biologist and proponent of genetically modified foods.That he was being bought off by Monsanto really surprised me, but there it was, written by a journalism professor and printed in the cultural darling of American science academics, </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I was surprised because he moderated </span><a href="http://www.science20.com/biotechnology_literacy_project_boot_camp_2015_davis_ca-154548" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a science journalism panel I was on in early June</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Now, I wasn't paid a nickel to be there, not my gas money, not a hotel, nothing. I guess I got free coffee, I don't recall. And I was surprised in hindsight to learn he had been bought off by Monsanto because he didn't have a car and driver ferrying him the 100 feet from the hotel to the conference room, like rich California elites do when they visit Cannes, and he wasn't carrying a diamond-studded walking stick or a fur cape - basically, he was in defiance of the fat cat corporate-funded shill stereotype that is usually portrayed by anti-science groups.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You would never have known that he was a toadie for Monsanto, the way </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mother Jones</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is considered to be a toadie for the Natural Resources Defense Council.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.</font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">                                                                            -R. Buckminster Fuller</em><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In early June, the news had not broken that Monsanto had donated $25,000 to a UF education fund. Even after I read it I thought, 'This is the company organic food conspiracy types think is controlling science? Their marketing group is as dumb as a box of rocks.' </span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I thought that not because Professor Folta is not a good guy to have communicating GMO science, if they controlled him - he really is, when I have struggled for context or to create the perfect metaphor I look to his work - but because he won't have the reach to make a difference. And they got him for $25,000? I'd make goat noises and put their email all over the Internet if a $14 billion company thought they could buy me for $25K.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If Monsanto were really as Machiavellian (in ways anyone who has actually read </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Prince</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">understands) as portrayed, they would not hire Ketchum - we've all made fun of Monsanto for the bumbling incompetence Ketchum has displayed in trying to do science communication - and they would not try to pay off Folta, much less pay him a paltry $25,000. He already has a job. They'd instead try to buy off a writer like me, who has reached 60 million people and was losing money funding Science 2.0, and someone at </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wired</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and then Carl Zimmer at the </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New York Times</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or another publication equivalent in reach, people who could really move the needle in the audience.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And they would do so at any cost because once they have you, they have you. They can then slowly dry up the funding and psychologists say you will try harder in hopes it will come back. That is what that Buckminster Fuller quote above means.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet none of those things happened. Despite Folta getting some coach-class airfare to do things he was going to do anyway, and me getting a free coffee at a conference I drove to, not much changed. He still talked about science and I still ridiculed that guy who calls himself Health Ranger and bought macaroni and cheese at the Whole Foods deli on Friday.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who's to blame?</font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don't blame </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> culture, despite opening with anecdotes about letting their contributors get away with lax command of facts and even though they have been a lightning rod for bizarre behavior in 2015. I don't blame them because one of my favorite science communicators on Earth is Berkeley professor Mike Eisen, the co-founder of </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - and he is on Folta's side when it came to the hit piece in </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Blogs because he knows, invoking Martin Niemöller again, that if we let humanities people, or lazy-brained journalists, smear us, it becomes hypocritical and then perhaps impossible to object when the sleaze is turned on us. Eisen quickly started turning the guns on the people cackling that Folta must be on the take led by, of course, the official magazine of the anti-science community, </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mother Jones</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" style="font-style: italic; margin: 20px 20px 20px 40px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px; quotes: " border-left-width="border-left-width" px="px" border-left-style="border-left-style" solid="solid" border-left-color="border-left-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">so <a href="https://twitter.com/tomphilpott">@tomphilpott</a>, you willing to release all your correspondence with anti-GMO organizations? <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinfolta">@kevinfolta</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MonsantoCo">@MonsantoCo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/keithkloor">@keithkloor</a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) <a href="https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/629868458809798660">August 8, 2015</a></font></blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eisen created the </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> culture, the last thing he wants is to have the image that </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is a way for humanities academics to undermine the ethics of scientists without any evidence, or for journalists blogging there to undermine ACSH because they don't accept some science we support.The real issue is that our culture has gotten intellectually lazy. All someone has to do is ask about funding and a giant swath of people will dismiss the work. </span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of course, it is not just the anti-GMO and anti-vaccine contingent, almost everyone does it, without considering the ramifications and while rationalizing their own behavior. I have seen plenty of academics who think they are shielded from criticism while launching it against others. In medical stories, it is common to castigate anyone who takes funding from the medical industry without being able to show flaws in the work. In the Science 2.0 audience, if some anonymous commenter does not like an article they will ask who "funds" it, never imagining how bizarre it would sound if we implied that because they had a job their manager was controlling the content of their comment.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And you probably see now what I was doing when I called </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mother Jones</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a toadie for the Natural Resources Defense Council while defending someone from that same charge. Wasn't that clever of me? Yet a whole bunch of people will believe it just because it makes sense and because I wrote it. I don't need evidence, I can rationalize that as what must be happening because every two years they vomit up the same "industry-funded" hit piece against the American Council on Science and Health. Skeptics know instead they should "follow the money" from NRDC and its $300 million in the bank and wonder why </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mother Jones</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has never asked NRDC about that money - and skeptics also quickly realize why that never happens.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Professor Eisen, the co-founder of </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLOS</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, made the same point when he noted on Twitter that true Freedom of Information Act fairness would mean issuing a FOIA to have a look at all the emails anti-science writers trade with Big Organic and NRDC and Union of Concerned Scientists and Environmental Working Group and all the rest.</span></font><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" style="font-style: italic; margin: 20px 20px 20px 40px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px; quotes: " border-left-width="border-left-width" px="px" border-left-style="border-left-style" solid="solid" border-left-color="border-left-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also think <a href="https://twitter.com/tomphilpott">@tomphilpott</a>, who is as much advocate as journalist, should disclose all emails he's received from anti-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GMO?src=hash">#GMO</a> organizations</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) <a href="https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/633862273446969345">August 19, 2015</a></font></blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What would happen to journalists if they had to put Conflict of Interest disclosures on what they write? It would no longer be open season on public health advocacy groups like ACSH or molecular biologists in academia, that's for sure.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But they will hide behind the letter of the law and also say FOIA-type transparency is not important - for them - much in the way anti-GMO yogurt magnate Gary Hirshberg weaseled,</span><a href="http://www.science20.com/genetic_literacy_project/stonyfield_ceo_gary_hirshberg_cant_explain_whats_in_his_natural_flavor_yogurt-155643" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when asked about what was in the "natural" flavoring of his organic yogurt</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, “We’re complying with FDA laws.”</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Too many journalists are no longer part of the Fourth Estate, too often they have become part of the problem.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republished from the </span><a href="http://acsh.org/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Council on Science and Health</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. 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They agree that the anti-vaccine movement is based on outright lies, they call the Huffington Post a laughingstock of the scientific community for its endorsement of CAM, they call for the NCCAM to be abolished, [and] they explain why presenting data about relative risks rather than absolute risks is misleading."</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">seralini:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> study in </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637" target="blank" style="">Food and Chemical Toxicology</a></em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> into the health effect of a GM-tolerant maize crop and the herbicide Roundup suggested lab rats developed mammary tumors and were more likely to die prematurely.</span><a href="http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Science Media Centre</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> issued a press release with some of the concerns by other scientists. Only a few are included, </span><a href="http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/press_releases/12-09-19_gm_maize_rats_tumours.htm" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for the full list and quotes go here</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I parsed out the ones I thought most insightful but I am biased toward, you know, science, so calibrate accordingly. And calibrate the French researchers behind this too, since they take being anti-science Europeans to the extreme.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citation: </span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gilles-Eric Séralini, Emilie Clair, Robin Mesnage, Steeve Gress, Nicolas Defarge, Manuela Malatesta, Didier Hennequin, Joël Spiroux de Vendômois</span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, '</span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize', </span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Food and Chemical Toxicology, In Press, Corrected Proof, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2012.08.005" target="blank" style="">Available online 19 September 2012</a></span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Concerns:</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•‘All data cannot be shown in one report and the most relevant are described here’ – this is a quote from the paper.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•Small sample size</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•Maize was minimum 11% of the diet – not balanced</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•No non-maize control?</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•No results given for non-gm maize</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•For nearly 20 years, billions of animals in the EU have been fed soy products produced from genetically modified soybean, mainly from Latin America. No problems have been reported by the hundreds of thousands of farmers, officials, vets and so on. </span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•The same journal publishes a paper showing no adverse health effects in rats of consuming gm maize (though this is a shorter 90-day study)</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•Statistical significance vs relative frequencies.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•We also have to ask why the rats were kept alive for so long – for humane reasons this study would not have been given approval in the UK.</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">•In Fig.2, I assume the bars with a zero is for the non-maize control. Those bars don’t looks significantly different from the bars indicating 11, 22, and 33% of GM maize in the diet? Have the authors done stats on their data?"</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"In my opinion, the methods, stats and reporting of results are all well below the standard I would expect in a rigorous study – to be honest I am surprised it was accepted for publication.</span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" - </span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding Of Risk, University of Cambridge</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The full data set has not been made available, but the findings do not contradict previous findings that genetic modification itself is a neutral technology, with no inherent health or environmental risks.</span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" - </span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr Wendy Harwood, senior scientist, John Innes Centre</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Like most of the GM debate, this work has very little to do with GM. The authors of the paper do not suggest that the effects are caused by genetic modification" - </span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof Ottoline Leyser, Associate Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"No food intake data is provided or growth data. This strain of rat is very prone to mammary tumours particularly when food intake is not restricted." - </span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof Tom Sanders, Head of the Nutritional Sciences Research Division, King’s College London</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The first thing that leaps to my mind is why has nothing emerged from epidemiological studies in the countries where so much GM has been in the food chain for so long? If the effects are as big as purported, and if the work really is relevant to humans, why aren’t the North Americans dropping like flies?! - </span><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof Mark Tester, Research Professor, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide</span><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">H/T </span><a href="http://www.iansample.com/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ian Sample</a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Guardian</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> science correspondent</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">9/15 grab rcs</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/fastft/389421" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Exxon Needs a Merger Deal as Oil Drops</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Financial Times</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/252989-climate-change-seven-indisputable-facts" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">Climate Change: Seven Indisputable Facts</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> - Rep. Lamar Smith, The Hill</span></span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://energyindepth.org/national/infographic-shale-brings-manufacturing-back-to-the-united-states/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shale Brings Manufacturing Back to the United States</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Dana Bohan, EID</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-09/u-s-cuts-annual-crude-production-forecast-in-short-term-outlook" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gasoline Price May Fall to $2.03 a Gallon by Year-End</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Bloomberg</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060024406" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">DOE Takes First Steps Toward a Post-Yucca Future</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> - Hannah Northey, E&EPubl (not horner?)</span></span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/252959-epas-crumbling-case-for-new-regs-on-fracking#.VfCUFrhB5RM.twitter" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">EPA's Crumbling Case for New Regs on Fracking</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> - Katie Brown, The Hill</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/09/3699636/california-climate-package-vote-assembly/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">California Is On The Verge Of Making Climate History</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> - Climate Progress</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><a href="http://breakingenergy.com/2015/09/09/sarah-palins-plan-for-the-department-of-energy-doesnt-include-knowing-what-the-department-of-energy-does/" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17px;">Sarah Palin's Plan</a><a href="http://breakingenergy.com/2015/09/09/sarah-palins-plan-for-the-department-of-energy-doesnt-include-knowing-what-the-department-of-energy-does/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"> For the Department Of Energy</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> - Breaking Energy</span></span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div align="right" style="text-align: left; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><h3 style="font-weight: normal; text-transform: capitalize; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 10px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.realclearenergy.org/am_update/" style="text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 10px;"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman">RCE Morning Edition</font></a></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2015/09/09/history_suggests_selling_oil_from_strategic_petroleum_reserve_makes_no_sense_108736.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">History Says Selling Oil From SPR Makes No Sense</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - John Manfreda, OP</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/08/mexico-oil-idUKL1N11E1DU20150908" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mexico Cannot Consider Oil Output Cut, Minister Said</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Reuters</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2015/09/09/are_environmental_laws_complicating_the_immigration_debate_108735.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">Does Environmental Law Help Make 'Anchor Babies'?</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> - Bill Murray, RCE</span></span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-08/how-eu-s-dodd-frank-will-reshape-940-billion-energy-market" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How EU's Dodd-Frank Impacts $940 Bln Energy Market</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Bloomberg</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Democratic+Support+for+Iran+Nuclear+Deal+Reaches+Critical+Threshold" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Iran Nuclear Deal Reaches Critical Threshold</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Siobhan Hughes, WSJ</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Plunge+in+North+Sea+investment+predicted" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Plunge in North Sea Investment Predicted</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Kiran Stacey, </span><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Financial Times</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.utilitydive.com/news/whats-behind-the-900-growth-in-energy-storage-in-q2-2015/405186/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What's Behind Explosive Energy Storage Growth in 2015?</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Utility Dive</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/solar-panel-record-america/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">US Solar Panels Installations Breaking Records</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Fehrenbacher, Fortune</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/09/coal_mine_bankruptcies_climate_hawks_should_not_be_too_gleeful_about_the.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">Coal Companies Hurting, But Industry's Not Dying</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> - Daniel Gross, Slate</span></span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://carbon-pulse.com/chinas-national-carbon-price-expected-to-debut-at-6/?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=79025bfd4d-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-79025bfd4d-" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">China's Carbon Price May Debut at $6 in 2017</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Stian Reklev, Carbon Pulse</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-ces/volkswagen-microbus-campers-return-be-officially-confirmed" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All-Electric Volkswagen Camper Van on Its Way</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Greg Kable, Autocar</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.energyfuse.org/lower-gasoline-prices-a-huge-benefit-for-low-earners/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Falling Gasoline a Big Benefit for Low Earners</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Leslie Hayward, The Fuse</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/08/investing/us-oil-export-ban-gas-prices/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chances for Lifting US Oil Export Ban Still Growing</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - CNNMoney</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Industry/2015/09/09/Continental-Resources-expects-steady-production/7381441791577/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Continental Resources</a><a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Industry/2015/09/09/Continental-Resources-expects-steady-production/7381441791577/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Expects Steady Production</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Daniel Graeber, UPI</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34175257?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=79025bfd4d-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-79025bfd4d-" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Will New Climate Treaty be a 'Nothing Burger'?</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Matt McGrath, BBC</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2015/09/09/renegade-uk-physicists-say-theyre-on-fast-track-to-nuclear-fusion/?utm_content=buffer870f2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Renegade UK Scientists on March to Cheap Fusion</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Alex Pashley, RTCC</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/american-petroleum-institute-americas-natural-gas-alliance-merger-talks-213356" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oil, Natural Gas Lobby Groups in Merger Talks</a><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Anna Palmer, Politico</span></font></div><div><div style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wednesday, September 9</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/men-and-women-with-autism-have-extreme-male-scores-on-the-eyes-test-of-mindreading" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Autism: Support for 'Extreme Male Brain' Theory</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - U. of Cambridge</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/lsot-wci090415.php" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Evolution Can Be Very Predictable</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Liverpool School of Tropical Med.</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/researchers-use-laser-to-levitate-glowing-nanodiamonds-in-vacuum/" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lasers Levitate Glowing Nanodiamonds</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - University of Rochester</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/242162" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Origami: A Folded Twist on Structural Engineering</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - U. of Illinois</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tuesday, September 8</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://news.wisc.edu/23991" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'Gaydar' Is a Complete Myth</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - University of Wisconsin</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/amon-pbm090415.php" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px;">Melting Ice: Polar Bears Will Find a Way</a><span style="line-height: 18px;"> - Am. Museum of Nat. Hist.</span></span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.caltech.edu/news/farthest-galaxy-detected-47761" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Farthest Galaxy Detected</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - CalTech</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_4-9-2015-10-4-6" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Effective Motion Sickness Treatment Coming?</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Imp. College London</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Friday, September 4</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/09/evidence-that-earths-first-mass-extinction-was-caused-by-critters-not-catastrophe/" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An Extinction Caused by Animals?</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Vanderbilt University</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/hu-tat090215.php" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How Termites Ventilate Their Mounds</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Harvard University</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.iop.org/news/15/sep/page_66178.html" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px;">Waste Coffee Used as Fuel Storage</a><span style="line-height: 18px;"> - Institute of Physics</span></span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/3d-printing-revives-bronze-age-music" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3D Printing Revives Bronze Age Music</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Australian National University</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thursday, September 3</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2015/suicide-by-firearm-rates-shift-in-two-states-after-changes-in-state-gun-laws.html" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px;">Laws Changed Rates of Suicide-by-Firearm</a><span style="line-height: 18px;"> - Johns Hopkins University</span></span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://uanews.org/story/how-wind-sculpted-the-earth-s-largest-dust-deposit" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How Wind Sculpted Earth's Largest Dust Deposit</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - University of Arizona</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://around.uoregon.edu/content/could-tiny-jellyfish-propulsion-drive-design-new-underwater-craft" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jellyfish Propulsion Design for Underwater Crafts</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - University of Oregon</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://news.psu.edu/story/367826/2015/09/01/research/water-heals-bioplastic" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Water Heals a Bioplastic</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Penn State University</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wednesday, September 2</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/23088-daily-marijuana-use-among-u-s-college-students-highest-since-1980" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. College Students Are Smoking a Lot of Pot</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Univ. of Michigan</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-squeeze-light-one-particle-at-a-time" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Light 'Squeezed' One Particle at a Time</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - University of Cambridge</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/uninews/entry/hot_electrons_point_the_way" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Electrons Point Way to Perfect Light Absorption</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Bielefeld</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/uos-msa090115.php" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Male Seahorse & Human Pregnancy Very Alike</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - EurekAlert!</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tuesday, September 1</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015843/seabird-sos" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Almost All Seabirds Have Eaten Plastic</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - UC-Santa Barbara</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/microbes-in-rocks" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Evidence of Ancient Life Deep Below the Seafloor</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Woods Hole</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/08/131411/short-sleepers-are-four-times-more-likely-catch-cold" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Short Sleepers 4x More Likely to Catch a Cold</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - UC-San Francisco</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/08/ankylosaur-tail/" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How the Ankylosaur Got Its Tail Club</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - North Carolina State</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monday, August 31</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.asm.org/index.php/journal-press-releases/93654-oysters-harbor-transmit-human-norovirus-avoid-raw-ones" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oysters Harbor, Transmit Norovirus to Humans</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Am. Soc. Microbio.</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/Last-5-years/prolonged-television-watchers-have-higher-risk-of-fatal-pulmonary-embolism" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prolonged TV Watching Linked to Fatal Embolism</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - EU Soc. Cardio.</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/future-climate-models-greatly-affected-by-fungi-and-bacteria" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Microbes Greatly Affect Climate Models</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Lund University</span><br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/238459" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Worker or Queen? Plant Influences Honey Bee Caste</a><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - U. of Illinois</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</b></div><div style="line-height: 18px;">Posted by Alex B. Berezow June 16, 2014</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
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</div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The organic food market </span>is estimated at $63 billion globally, with more than half of those sales occuring in the United States. (If "natural products" are included, the organic market is $290 billion in the U.S. alone.) It's no wonder, then, why Wal-Mart and other mainstream retailers are jumping onto the organic bandwagon. There is an awful lot of money to be made.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">However, according to a damning report issued by the organization Academics Review, the rapidly growing organic food market is built upon a foundation of lies.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Academics-Review_Organic-Marketing-Report1.pdf">http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Academics-Review_Organic-Marketing-Report1.pdf</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"> </div><div style="line-height: 18px;">The report states, in no uncertain terms, that the organic food industry conspired to deceive the public about the safety of conventionally grown food. By raising doubts over the scientific consensus on pesticides, hormones, and GMOs, organic food marketers deliberately played on people's fears in order to expand the industry. One company, Organic Valley, even goes so far as to distribute activity books and promotional materials to schoolchildren that tout the alleged health benefits of organic food, indoctrinating a new generation of consumers. Parents are urged to lobby schools to serve organic-only meals.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">Unsurprisingly, the author* concludes that "food safety and health concerns are the primary drivers of consumer organic purchasing."</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">Furthermore, the author claims that the USDA has been unwittingly complicit in this scam. The "USDA Organic" label was meant only to convey that food bearing the label met certain standards of production (e.g., it does not contain GMOs or additives and was not produced with synthetic pesticides). The label was not meant to be taken as a government endorsement of the organic industry's claim of superior food quality. Yet, a large majority of consumers believe just that, and the organic industry is happy to perpetuate the misconception.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">For example, Whole Foods -- the most (in)famous face of the organic industry -- maintains on its website a list created by the Organic Trade Association called the "Top 10 Reasons To Go Organic!" Many of the statements are misleading or completely false.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">"Organic products meet stringent standards?. Organic certification is the public's assurance that products have been grown and handled according to strict procedures without persistent toxic chemical inputs."</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">FALSE. Actually, this statement is false on two counts. First, organic products do not meet stringent standards. Usually, all that is required for organic certification is paperwork. The USDA itself does not conduct any field inspections, but instead hires third party contractors (who make their money by collecting fees from the farmers they inspect). Second, organic farms use "natural" pesticides, some of which could be considered toxic. Further, these "natural" pesticides aren't nearly as regulated or understood as their synthetic counterparts. (In reality, the amount of pesticides used by both conventional and organic farms fall well below what is considered unsafe.)</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">"Organic food tastes great!"</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">MISLEADING. The implication is that organic food tastes better than conventional food. Indeed, many organic shoppers believe that. However, as hilariously demonstrated by Penn & Teller, most people cannot tell the difference between conventional and organic food. (Warning: Video contains lots of naughty language.) A more serious study showed that organic milk came in last in a taste test.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">"Organic production reduces health risks?. Many EPA-approved pesticides were registered long before extensive research linked these chemicals to cancer and other diseases. Organic agriculture is one way to prevent any more of these chemicals from getting into the air, earth and water that sustain us."</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">FALSE. This is pants-on-fire territory. 97% of pesticides used in California, for instance, are less toxic than caffeine or aspirin. Agricultural technologist Steve Savage argues that, sometimes, increased herbicide use is actually a good thing. That is because herbicides allow no-till farming, which is better for the environment. And, of course, organic farmers use pesticides, just not necessarily the same ones that "Big Ag" uses.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">"Organic producers are leaders in innovative research?."</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">MISLEADING. While it is true that some techniques developed by organic farmers can and should be implemented by larger conventional farms, it is a serious stretch to claim that the organic industry is a leader in "innovative" research. Revolutionary innovation, in the form of GMOs, comes from the biotech industry. And the organic industry is adamantly opposed to GMOs, even going so far as to fund anti-GMO groups.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">"Organic abundance -- foods and non-foods alike. ?Now every food category has an organic alternative."</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">MISLEADING. It is true that there are more organic food choices. But, this hardly makes the case for "abundance." Indeed, a study in Nature concluded that organic farms yielded substantially less food than conventional ones. It would simply not be possible to feed the world using organic farming techniques alone.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">People who want to eat organic food should by all means be allowed to. And big corporations (like Whole Foods) who want to exploit those gullible customers ought to be allowed to, as well. But, this widespread and deliberate misinformation campaign needs to stop immediately. The future of biotechnology, and perhaps even scientific research itself, depends on it.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">Update (6/18/14 @ 3:30 pm PST): A previous version of this article incorrectly identified the authors as Bruce Chassy and David Tribe. Instead, they were reviewers. The author was Joanna Schroeder. Our apologies.</div><div style="line-height: 18px;">
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line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am contributing to the 2nd edition of the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> college textbook</span> "Biotechnology: Applying the Genetic Revolution" which will be released in late 2014/early 2015.</font></p></div></div></div></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

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</font><header class="article-header" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><h1 class="article-title" style="padding: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 36px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Liberals' War on Science</font></h1><div class="article-dek" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 22px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How politics distorts science on both ends of the spectrum</font></div><div class="article-author article-date" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jan 15, 2013 <span class="metaDataDivider" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 5px;">|</span>By <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/author/michael-shermer" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Michael Shermer</a> [~ PEER grand cyn]</font></div><div class="article-socialVertical" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div id="shareFloat" style="padding: 5px; margin: 0px; text-align: center; position: absolute; top: 90px; right: auto; bottom: auto; left: -55px; overflow: hidden; max-width: 70px;"><a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-liberals-war-on-science/&text=The%20Liberals%27%20War%20on%20Science" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-decoration: none; display: block; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="icon-twitter icon-large" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; speak: none; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></font></a><a target="blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?p[url]=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-liberals-war-on-science/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-decoration: none; display: block; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="icon-facebook icon-large" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; speak: none; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></font></a><a target="blank" href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-liberals-war-on-science/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-decoration: none; display: block; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="icon-googleplus icon-large" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; speak: none; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></font></a><a target="blank" class="reddit" href="http://www.reddit.com/submit" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-decoration: none; display: block; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="icon-reddit" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; speak: none; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></font></a></div></div></header><section class="article-content" style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">
This article was originally published with the title "The Left's War on Science."</span>Believe it or not—and I suspect most readers will not—there's a liberal war on science. Say what?</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We are well aware of the Republican war on science from the eponymous 2006 book (Basic Books) by Chris Mooney, and I have castigated conservatives myself in my 2006 book <i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Why Darwin Matters</i> (Henry Holt) for their erroneous belief that the theory of evolution leads to a breakdown of morality. A 2012 Gallup poll found that “58 percent of Republicans believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years,” compared with 41 percent of Democrats. A 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 81 percent of Democrats but only 49 percent of Republicans believe that Earth is getting warmer. Many conservatives seem to grant early-stage embryos a moral standing that is higher than that of adults suffering from debilitating diseases potentially curable through stem cells. And most recently, Missouri Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin gaffed on the ability of women's bodies to avoid pregnancy in the event of a “legitimate rape.” It gets worse.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The left's war on science begins with the stats cited above: 41 percent of Democrats are young Earth creationists, and 19 percent doubt that Earth is getting warmer. These numbers do not exactly bolster the common belief that liberals are the people of the science book. In addition, consider “cognitive creationists”—whom I define as those who accept the theory of evolution for the human body but not the brain. As Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker documents in his 2002 book <i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">The Blank Slate</i>(Viking), belief in the mind as a tabula rasa shaped almost entirely by culture has been mostly the mantra of liberal intellectuals, who in the 1980s and 1990s led an all-out assault against evolutionary psychology via such Orwellian-named far-left groups as Science for the People, for proffering the now uncontroversial idea that human thought and behavior are at least partially the result of our evolutionary past.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is more, and recent, antiscience fare from far-left progressives, documented in the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2012 book <i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Science Left Behind</i> (PublicAffairs)[entine] by science journalists Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell, </span>who note that “if it is true that conservatives have declared a war on science, then progressives have declared Armageddon.” On energy issues, for example, the authors contend that progressive liberals tend to be antinuclear because of the waste-disposal problem, anti–fossil fuels because of global warming, antihydroelectric because dams disrupt river ecosystems, and anti–wind power because of avian fatalities. The underlying current is “everything natural is good” and “everything unnatural is bad.”</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Whereas conservatives obsess over the purity and sanctity of sex, the left's sacred values seem fixated on the environment, leading to an almost religious fervor over the purity and sanctity of air, water and especially food</span>. Try having a conversation with a liberal progressive about GMOs—genetically modified organisms—in which the words “Monsanto” and “profit” are not dropped like syllogistic bombs. Comedian <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bill Maher, </span>for example, on his HBO <i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Real Time show</i> on October 19, 2012, asked Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg if he would rate Monsanto as a 10 (“evil”) or an 11 (“f—ing evil”)? The fact is that we've been genetically modifying organisms for 10,000 years through breeding and selection. It's the only way to feed billions of people.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Surveys show that moderate liberals and conservatives embrace science roughly equally (varying across domains), which is why scientists like E. O. Wilson and organizations like the National Center for Science Education are reaching out to moderates in both parties to rein in the extremists on evolution and climate change.<i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Pace Barry</i> Goldwater, extremism in the defense of liberty may not be a vice, but it is in defense of science, where facts matter more than faith—whether it comes in a religious or secular form—and where moderation in the pursuit of truth is a virtue.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lomborgian: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/act-on-climate-change-but-tackle-other-global-problems-too/">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/act-on-climate-change-but-tackle-other-global-problems-too/</a></font></p></section><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

SCIENCE 2.0

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<a href="http://retractionwatch.com/?s=ATRAZINE">http://<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">retractionwatch.</span>com/?s=ATRAZINE</a>

GETS HAYES ASSBACKWARDS?

http://www.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">pnas</span>.org/content/99/8/5476.full.pdf

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</font><div id="article-content-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 22.236px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's big news when <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/10/scholarly-journal-retracts-60-articles-smashes-peer-review-ring/" target="blank">a journal busts a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">'peer review ring'</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span>[ONE GUY? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/10/scholarly-journal-retracts-60-articles-smashes-peer-review-ring/ ] that had manipulated its way to 60 papers sailing through peer review that then had to be retracted. Prior to that, <em>Nature</em> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/stap-retracted-1.15488" target="blank">retracted a paper on stem cells</a> that was obviously flawed - and everyone but the<b> peer reviewers</b> knew it.

The issue may be news but it's not new. Everyone in science has joked about gaming peer review, I wondered in <a href="http://www.science20.com/science_20/blog/penny_stock_peer_review-140385" target="blank"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Penny Stock</span> Peer Review</a> why it did not happen more and I speculated it is because most scientists are honest.

But not everyone is playing fair - sometimes they want to Do God's Work. They believe their claims are vital to saving humanity and that if they don't rig the system, some conspiracy will block them out. The end justifies the means, and all that. The damage to policy and public trust in science can still be substantial when that happens. Why is the public going to believe peer review on climate change and evolution, or vaccines, GMOs and energy, when junk papers about<a href="http://www.science20.com/science_20/blog/pnas_issues_expression_of_concern_about_facebook_experiment_study-139944" target="blank">Facebook emotions</a> and<a href="http://www.science20.com/news_articles/pnas_study_says_changing_hurricanes_to_male_names_will_lead_to_fewer_deaths-137628" target="blank"> female hurricane names</a> get a faux peer review legitimacy stamp from an elite journal?

And then there are very expensive debacles, I note. The same journal behind <a href="http://www.science20.com/news_articles/lousy_gambler_it_may_be_in_your_genes_say_marketing_academics-138656" target="blank">the genetics of why you are a lousy gambler</a> and those two papers above, <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em>, <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.full.pdf" target="blank">published a paper in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2002</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span>that got an<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> emergency Scientific Advisory Panel called by the EPA</span>. It claimed feminization of male frogs due to an herbicide. <b>It turned out to be nothing, the authors refused to show their data to the EPA and the EPA ended up giving the herbicide a clean bill of health.</b> How did all that happen? The hand-picked, pre-chosen editor for the paper inside the National Academy of Sciences happens to be a friend of the first author of that paper. Then they teamed up to do the same thing in <em>PNAS</em> again, about the same herbicide, in 2010. [ed not named]

The EPA spends years on issues when they are mobilized. We wasted time and money that could have been spent doing real fact-finding about products.<b> Career scientists inside EPA were forced to stop what they were doing because environmental groups engaged in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">scare-</span>mongering,</b> all with the claim that the studies in PNAS was <em>peer reviewed</em>.  Sorry, but that's not peer review, it's friendly editing, and it doesn't make the public safer and it does not inspire young scientists, it makes them cynical.

I'm not trying to pick on PNAS, they just happen to be a high-profile publication that carries a lot of weight in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">mainstream media</span>, so when they drop the ball, it has expensive consequences for taxpayers and collateral damage for science acceptance. 

Every journal has papers that slip under the radar and open access journals are actually worse, but they get a pass because it's assumed in open access that the standard is lower. 
Not only does PNAS say it is better than open access, <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15518.full" target="blank">it says their system is better than <em>Cell</em>,<em>Nature</em> and <em>Science</em></a>.

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</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> forever war on sci</font></b></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><div id="article-content-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I'll tell you up front, I am not a big fan of chemicals.</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's not that I have</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> chemophobia, or any science-phobia</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, I instead have that special sort of elitism that is available to people who have just been lucky enough to not need chemicals. I don't even like to take aspirin and I have that luxury because I haven't needed to take any drugs for a recurring condition, so it's really easy for me to embrace such naturalistic posturing. When it comes to food, if I had my way, nothing my family eats would be grown, processed, killed, cleaned or cooked by any hands but mine.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like most of you, I can feel that way because I was lucky enough to be born in one of the most agriculturally rich places on Earth. Yet I know the rest of the world is not so lucky. For the rest of the world, there is one great equalizer: science. Science can make things grow where they otherwise might not, science can prevent pests and weeds from ravaging yields on small farms.

That's a good thing, and yet most people who benefit from it know little about it. And what they do know is scary.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[halo?]</span>
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Is there a war on science? Of course, there always has been. </em>
<em>Shout out to <a target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=Joe%20Haldeman%20Forever%20War&linkCode=ur2&tag=funnierthanyo-20&linkId=YPSYXJKZEDKPSR5B">Joe Haldeman</a>.[novelist]</em>

Where I live in Sacramento, one of the world’s most agriculturally knowledgeable cities and the capital of America's largest food-producing state, if I ask most people to name a pesticide, they can only name one - DDT. They don't know why they can name it, they can't remember Rachel Carson or "Silent Spring", they just know it must be bad because they have heard of it.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That the only pesticide people know of hasn't been used here in over 40 years is a testament to the safety of modern science. In a vast, complicated narrative about science and our culture, where people assume if they have heard of a chemical,<b> it must be bad, few people can name the two most popular herbicides that increase agriculture yields dramatically.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Those two are </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">glyphosate and atrazine.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Glyphosate (e.g. Roundup – Monsanto) </span><a href="http://www.science20.com/search/apachesolr_search/GLYPHOSATE" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has been covered extensively on Science 2.0</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and while environmentalists don’t like it - they don’t like any chemicals - atrazine is where the real cultural action is.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s a stealth war going on over atrazine and, occasionally, as happened earlier this year, it breaks into open war and makes some mainstream news. 

Unlike most science stories, this one didn’t involve any science – it instead invoked a world of threats, sexual harassment, lawsuits...and rapper Tupac Shakur.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A few months ago, a journalist in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The New Yorker named Rachel Aviv</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wrote an article</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> about a reproductive biologist who is convinced that atrazine, one of the most successful herbicides in history, is bad for us. It was good timing, because atrazine is undergoing a registration review with the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA had also convened a special science panel on it in 2009 after finally completing its last registration review (done every 15 years) in 2006.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why does the EPA keep studying it?<b> The easy answer is that is what the EPA does.</b>  The real answer is a lot more complicated.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The story begins with<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.full.pdf"> a 2002 journal paper</a> that seemed to show atrazine had adverse effects on the laryngeal muscles of frogs – they were not developing properly and that <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3493249/">impacts androgen and sexual reproduction</a>. No calling, no canoodling – a real disaster for an<a href="http://eol.org/info/465"> indicator species</a> like frogs.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s unclear today what was really happening with those frogs<b>. No one knows </b>except the researcher who made the claim, <b>Professor Tyrone Hayes of Berkeley. He refuses to share his data with anyone.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, even without having any data, the EPA felt like it was a valid hypothesis. So-called endocrine disruptors have really diverse chemical structures and that can make it difficult to predict biological effects, but science knows a lot about amphibian biology by now, which makes frogs a good candidate to do that kind of risk assessment. And frogs are important.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Syngenta agreed.</b> That’s right, the company behind atrazine said it made sense to determine once and for all if their product was harmful to the environment.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fast forward to February of 2014 and that article in The New Yorker. <b>The piece by Rachel Aviv was not about science or even health, it was more about what we in science media call The Myth Of The Oppressed Underdog</b> - that journalistic narrative where some maverick beacon of truth is trying to fight an entrenched constituent, be it a company or science dogma. At the time, I was uninterested, for the same reasons I am not interested when some underdog claims in a media article that a diet plan can prevent Alzheimer's or that cold fusion is being bought by Big Oil and stuck in a warehouse to protect profits. It was an <b>advocacy piece </b>about a biologist trying to convince the world of something and she did a fine job. I recognize that modern journalism is often about telling a story rather than getting to the bottom of one.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But I also recognize that journalistic advocacy is why a giant chunk of America no longer trusts scientists; in 2014, you can figure out the voting record of people by asking if they don't trust chemists or climatologists.</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This story predictably took hold with the political demographic that dislikes chemicals and agriculture and corporations.<b> Suddenly Hayes was on NPR and Democracy Now</b> and being quoted in various other outlets. People like to believe in <b>vast corporate conspiracies</b> and <b>media outlets need a steady stream of content</b> for their audience and so no one 'asked the awkward questions' of Professor Hayes about the claims of racism and threats and dirty tricks by Syngenta that he lobbed during his soliloquies. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But then Hayes said he had the science to back his beliefs about how atrazine was harmful to frogs. I actually thought that had been settled for years and so it got me willing to ask the awkward questions. You should too, because unlike claims about frogs being feminized and data no one is allowed to see, the EPA is on record saying the issue has been settled, and the data is public.

[funny pix]
<em>Please get to the point. On a Terrorized Scale of 9 to 10, how scared
do media accounts want us to be? [whelan/entine trope]</em></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Journalists like to write about individuals rather than issues because writing about individuals is easy; just interview them and create a timeline and pick your hero and cash the check.  Issues are much harder because they require research.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It turns out that if the issue is atrazine and public health, you can feel pretty safe.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hank c</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 22.236px;">http://www.science20.com/science_20/atrazine_and_the_forever_war_on_science-135693</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atrazine is used to kill weeds, mostly in corn fields. Syngenta, its primary manufacturer, is big -really big, $14 billion - yet not so big that they can control where they show up in Google. If you search for atrazine, rather than get the actual atrazine site, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine">the first entry is for Wikipedia</a> and the very first citation in their entry is for that recent New Yorker article (as of April, 2014 anyway). Atrazine has been around since 1958 but the first citation in Wikipedia is a New Yorker article from February of 2014?  More strangely, that same article is cited three times before you even get to the table of contents.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That a piece with no science is the very first citation for a product pushing 60 years old tells you one important thing -- there may be no health issue, but there is certainly a public relations one.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since the Wikipedia entry had clearly been hijacked by people promoting that New Yorker article and not science, I then went to <b>Source Watch</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and other places that claim to find secrets - still no science but they assure us that Syngenta is not a nice company. I had saved the Environmental Protection Agency for last because I knew what I would find. They must really hate atrazine, I thought, they hate everything. This is the vilified government agency that had to be </span><a href="http://www.science20.com/cool-links/science_win_epa_forced_investigate_blaming_fracking-88580" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ordered by a Federal court to not blame fracking for environmental issues without doing a study</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,[dropped suit b/c RR threaten not to partic in big nat'l study?] they </span><a href="http://www.science20.com/cool-links/science_win_epa_forced_investigate_blaming_fracking-88580" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">declared water a pollutant when too much of it annoyed canoers</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, [no link]and they recently</span><a href="http://science.house.gov/issue/committee-investigation-epa-secret-science" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">had to defend themselves against the charge that they do 'secret science'</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and don't disclose the methodology or studies related to greenhouse gas emissions.[http://science.house.gov/issue/committee-investigation-epa-secret-science vitter and lamar smith want harvard longitudinal 6 cities and Am cancer soc raw data, as well as that done by other univ reserachers; note Cooch/Mann ploy Hayes? ]</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If they blame first and prove later when it comes to the environment, the EPA must have really hammered this atrazine stuff – they spent years studying it, they had to have found something.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, they didn’t. Rather than a caricature of science like in the examples I listed above, I instead learned <a href="http://www.epa.gov/oscpmont/sap/meetings/2007/october/2007_amphibian_white_paper.pdf">about one of the most rigorous environmental studies ever done</a>. And it completely exonerated atrazine.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why didn’t the atrazine Wikipedia entry talk about that? It did, but only writing that the EPA study has "been criticized". What was the citation for that? The New Yorker article. And that <b>old Bogeyman"industry-funded"</b> was invoked about it - the source for that? Also The New Yorker article.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clearly, The New Yorker is far better at controlling information about atrazine than Syngenta is.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conspiracy stories about funding and secret deals mobilize activists but they are a head-scratcher for actual scientists. Scientists know something Wikipedia editors and advocacy journalists do not;<b> studies are "industry-funded" because that is a legal requirement.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>All</b> safety studies are industry-funded because if a company has to pay for studies, which can cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, they won’t keep developing a product they are not convinced is safe and effective. The EPA and the FDA and everyone else is right for requiring industry-funded studies because most people agree that taxpayers should not have to pay to find out if a product is safe or not.If a company wants to sell something, they should prove it is safe. 

<img src="http://www.epa.gov/ncct/dsstox/Images/Text_to_StructureSearch1.gif" alt="" style="border: none; padding-right: 10px; max-width: 620px; width: 620px;" /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Credit: EPA[this proves what?]</em>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the case of atrazine, if you like irony you will like that the EPA told Syngenta they had to pay to try and prove their own product was harmful. The EPA was going to monitor the work and EPA got to pick the parameters and the methodology. The study was going to be duplicated and the results were going to be part of the public record, no matter how things turned out. How many journal articles that have a <b>peer review</b> stamp can say that?</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In asking for the study, the EPA not only settled a safety issue, they pushed back the frontiers of science, because they asked for something that had never been done and no contract lab was capable of doing.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kloas Study</font></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not all studies are created equal. <b>The EPA knows that some researchers quietly do boring, methodological,comprehensive and therefore outstanding work while others are just chasing the next paycheck or media appearance. Scientists are no different than people in any job that way.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So when trying to tackle the issue of whether or not atrazine was leading to this ‘feminization’ of male frogs, they outlined what a good study would be. Then they got all of the relevant studies available and weighted them according to those best practices.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">19 studies were included in their examination of the frog feminizing hypothesis. Two were by Professor Tyrone Hayes. Of the 19 studies, only one matched EPA criteria for their highest confidence. That was no surprise, it had been created using their parameters, they did the quality assurance, they had verified the results and the results had been replicated.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Syngenta even helped create that methodology. Not only does that debunk conspiracy tales about industry-funded research, it shows that industry-funded studies should help you sleep a lot better at night.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I was able to get an introduction[passive]</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to <b>Dr. Tim Pastoor,</b> a toxicologist by training and Principal Scientist at Syngenta, because I wanted to talk about atrazine and its effects on frogs and mammals and systems biology in general. Obviously, since this was after the New Yorker article and after some increasingly bizarre allegations against Pastoor by Professor Hayes, going the normal route through a corporate communications group would have taken forever.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I expected to reach a scientist under siege. Because of the strange claims by Hayes and the potentially unhinged behavior of a tiny segment of the environmental community that will believe anything about scientists,</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Pastoor now has a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">security detail</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that monitors his house. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He also had to be wondering if I was a writing a me-too article similar to the piece in The New Yorker or, if you are knowledgeable about environmental books, maybe “A Plague Of Frogs II – Starring Atrazine”, but when we finally spoke he didn’t act like a scientist under siege at all, I got frank answers and transparency about serious science issues. A writer who prides himself on asking the awkward questions of scientists found someone who didn't regard any question as awkward.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like most of you, I am not an expert in reproductive biology, much less in amphibians and chemicals, but I <a href="http://www.epa.gov/oscpmont/sap/meetings/2007/october/2007_amphibian_white_paper.pdf">read the white paper that was the final product of the EPA analysis</a> on the question of whether frogs were being damaged by atrazine. The EPA distilled a lot of data, much like the UN IPCC does with its climate reports. Like the IPCC product, it has to be manageable for everyone from scientists to staffers in Congress, so the EPA doesn’t underestimate the intelligence of the reader but they assume a lack of vocabulary and keep jargon to a minimum. Still, it is the length of a book and it’s about a narrow, complex field. That’s not easy going.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the big answer to the big question is given out early and then repeated over and over. I told Pastoor that by page 114, I finally really noticed something that upon re-reading I found I had seen numerous times starting on page 6; the EPA didn't find any problems. Atrazine is actually kind of boring scientifically. Is that why the science gets so little traction in atrazine stories? I asked.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I think we get distracted by claims there is a science issue with atrazine and there's just not. <b>It's a political story, and it's a litigation story, and it's a self-aggrandizement story</b>. But the actual science is boring because there's nothing going on," Pastoor replied.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But, I said, I thought the EPA had a valid hypothesis about frog gonads in 2002.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To my surprise, he agreed. Prior to that,<b> Syngenta had created what they considered a real blue-ribbon panel</b> of up-and-coming researchers and Dr. Tyrone Hayes, the subject of the New Yorker piece, was an early member, and when he found that laryngeal muscles in frogs were not enlarged like in a 'true' male, they were all intrigued.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The panel wanted to reproduce it because it was provocative," Pastoor said, but<b> Hayes did not want to reproduce it.</b> The results of some of the work did not make sense, and Hayes resisted the idea of doing a duplicate study or answering questions about his use of data, so Syngenta was for it when the EPA said they wanted to tackle the issue, except with more rigorous and transparent methodology.<b> By then, Hayes had also said he found an intersex/transgender effect, at low doses of atrazine, but that had no laryngeal effect.  Things clearly did not add up.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The larynx is a very lobular structure,” Pastoor said, “so it’s kind of like a big, bulky piece of spaghetti. You can imagine that, depending on where you cut through that, you would get different thicknesses, and that was one of the things that the panel” (meaning the other scientists on the panel, with Hayes) “pointed out; you have to have better control. It was just good histological practice.”</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The EPA said they wanted a study to settle the matter, in a way that lacked the loose structure of private efforts – and that is a key point that critics of industry-funded studies miss.  <b>It is easy to get published in a journal and if the journal doesn't require that you include your raw data, as most don't, it is rarely noted.</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A university study is not required to use rigorous methodology and most academic studies require no expertise in statistics. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have all seen plenty of published papers that were clearly fishing expeditions with lots of cut corners to make for a nice retrospective conclusion about a hypothesis we never know that anyone had in advance.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA career scientists are not having that – and you can’t out-wait them either. Long after company employees and lobbyists have come and gone and EPA bureaucrats at the top have been replaced by new bureaucrats, career scientists at EPA will still be there asking for data if you ever want your product registered[fda but not epa?]. An “industry-funded” study for the EPA is held to a standard that literally no paper for a journal is held, because they can make companies do it.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA wanted a study with a sufficient number of animals, a positive control, orders of magnitude dosing and clean analytical standards. And they wanted Syngenta to pay for it.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We had an option to do or not do that study," Pastoor said, "and you can imagine what a throw of the dice that was going to be. What if we found effects, particularly at low dose levels? One of the things I admire about this company is that, after not a whole lot of debate, we said 'yeah, we've got to do that study' even though it could result in absolutely cutting the legs off of atrazine. We needed to know and EPA was asking for it, so we did it."</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Prof. Dr. Werner Kloas is a Distinguished Professor for Endocrinology at Humboldt University of Berlin. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12049206">In 2002</a> he had written a paper for International Review of Cytology outlining how to use amphibians in studies of endocrine disruption.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>He was publicly on record as being a fan of the precautionary principle</b> [where?] and saying that a chemical should be banned if there is evidence that it is unsafe. He is so thorough his C.V. includes where he went to elementary school.  </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In sum, he was the perfect person to spearhead the study the EPA wanted.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither Syngenta nor the EPA knew what would happen when<b> two independent labs in two countries using the same methodology and 3,200 frogs</b> set out to see what impact atrazine had on amphibian reproductive health.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We know now. <a href="http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/2/376.long">There’s no evidence of harm</a>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oxford journals?</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px;"><a href="http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/2/376.long">http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/2/376.long</a></span></font></p><div><h1 id="article-title-1" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Does Atrazine Influence Larval Development and Sexual Differentiation in <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Xenopus laevis</em>?</font></h1><div class="contributors" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; 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Chemir</a>:</strong><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"> Providing in-depth analytical investigations and litigation support for a wide variety of industries.</span></font></p><p class="affiliation-list-reveal" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510.828125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 14.52px;">‡Experimental Pathology Laboratories, Reston, Virginia</span></font></p><p class="affiliation-list-reveal" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510.828125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 14.52px;">§Sielken and Associates, Bryan, Texas 77802</span></font></p><p class="affiliation-list-reveal" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510.828125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 14.52px;">¶<b>Syngenta, Crop Protection Inc.</b>, Greensboro, North Carolina 27409</span></font></p><p class="affiliation-list-reveal" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510.828125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 14.52px;">
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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: 0.2em;"><sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit;">¶</sup>Syngenta, Crop Protection Inc., Greensboro, North Carolina 27409</a></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></address></li></ol><ol class="corresp-list" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li class="corresp" id="corresp-1" style="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-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="corresp-label" style="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-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: super; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To whom correspondence should be addressed at 410 Swing Road, Building L, Greeensboro, NC 27409. Fax: (336) 632-7581. E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:alan.hosmer@syngenta.com" style="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-style: none; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: 0em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">alan.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">hosmer@syngenta.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">com</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></font></font></font></font></li></ol><ul class="history-list" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="received" hwp:start="2008-06-20" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" xmlns:hwp="http://schema.highwire.org/Journal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="received-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Received </span>June 20, 2008.</font></font></font></li><li class="accepted" hwp:start="2008-10-30" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" xmlns:hwp="http://schema.highwire.org/Journal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="accepted-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Accepted </span>October 30, 2008.</font></font></font></li></ul></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
<span style="line-height: 22.236000061035156px;">[pix]</span></font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That had to be something of a letdown for critics, because the science was settled. Except it wasn't a letdown at all – they just pretended it never happened.</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kloas study is the definitive work on atrazine and frogs. Oddly, Professor Hayes dismissed it, and the profile of Hayes in The New Yorker did not delve into its merits either. It was disqualified as “industy-funded”, as if the EPA is controlled by Syngenta.</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let’s think about that: The EPA convened a Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) in 2003. They finally concluded a lengthy re-registration of atrazine in 2006. The EPA White Paper about the frog reproduction hypothesis was produced in 2007. In 2009 they convened another Scientific Advisory Panel. Then in 2013 they opened registration review again on its normal schedule, even though the previous one was only concluded 7 years ago. Clearly the EPA is not favoring Syngenta  and if Syngenta is controlling them, they are doing a terrible job at it.</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regardless, Professor Hayes does not think much of the EPA and the EPA does not think much of the work of Professor Hayes either. Though they looked at two of his papers, they were not considered rigorous enough to meet their standards.</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“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. EPA, however, has never seen either the results from any independent investigator published in peer-reviewed scientific journals or the raw data from Dr. Hayes' additional experiments,” EPA deputy director Anne Lindsay testified in 2005.[see syngents news release factchecker ltr]</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2010, an EPA division director responded to a request from an Illinois politician who was spurred to concern by the claims of Hayes.  Donald Brady outlined how analyses of studies were done – by whole committees of interdisciplinary teams doing multiple reviews. He told Illinois State Representative Dave Winters that the EPA couldn’t use the Hayes studies because there was no data and so they could not account for sample sizes and methodology. In other words, they weren’t valid studies.[no cite]</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What about other endocrinologists? While the Kloas study was a scientifically agnostic, prospective study, other labs have tried to reproduce the Hayes findings specifically. The Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience <a target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=Crop%20Chemophobia%3A%20Will%20Precaution%20Kill%20the%20Green%20Revolution%3F&linkCode=ur2&tag=funnierthanyo-20&linkId=5BAUIWLH4P4T4XMB">couldn’t get any hermaphroditic frogs</a> using atrazine - and they were really trying.[point to amazon page 4 bks, 2 entine chemophobia, other 2 irrelv?]</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since no one can replicate the findings of Hayes, why do they continue to have such prominence in press accounts? One easy answer is that anything critical of corporations and chemicals is going to draw eyeballs to the pages of publications, and everyone from the NRDC to The New Yorker is aware of that. An editor and a journalist know a boring science story isn’t exciting anyone but if someone is willing to go on record claiming harassment and a corporate conspiracy, that will get some social media buzz.</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's also symptomatic of something that should terrify scientists and the public – atrazine is part of an ongoing broader effort to have science done by political review, similar to genetically modified food, vaccines and climate change. </font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2009, Senator Barbara Boxer(D-CA) insisted that the EPA do another review in a private meeting with top-level EPA staff [true, see ivory huffpo series: The EPA said it will announce its specific plan for evaluating the effects of atrazine next month, and that the study would conclude in September 2010. Officials said the report also will include results from a National Cancer Institute Agricultural Health Study due next year.] ,<a href="http://www.nrdc.org/health/atrazine/" target="blank"> right after a press release by National Resources Defense Council</a> said atrazine in water was harmful.http://www.nrdc.org/health/atrazine/</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.236px; margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No scientists were included in the discussion.  

This is not a new phenomenon, of course, it's been happening for as long as governments have been funding research. This "Forever War on Science" has been occurring for so long that no one even recognizes it is a war any more. Modern journalists, even some scientists and certainly the public think that's just the way it is - science is to be chosen <em>a la carte</em> and if you don't like the results, find someone saying something else and just choose different facts. Half of the public can comfortably be dismissed as anti-science if they disagree with anything the other half accepts.</font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What about the sexual harassment, the racism and secret messages using rap lyrics I promised? What started out as a simple question drawn from a claim I saw in an interview - is atrazine harmful? - ended up being 15,000 words on the science of pesticides, kinetics, dynamics, a talk about frog sex with some of the world's foremost experts on frog sex, and the anti-science culture that effects the left and the right, and Europeans and Americans alike, so I am breaking it up into manageable chunks but by the end of it we'll all have a better grasp of chemistry, the environment and, yes, Tupac Shakur.</span>

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</font></font></font></div><div><div class="headline_area" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More flammable water near Range Resources’ Parker County fracking well</font></font></font></h1><p class="headline_meta" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by <span class="author vcard fn" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">TXSHARON</span> on <abbr class="published" title="2013-07-11" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; cursor: help; font-style: normal;">JULY 11, 2013</abbr></font></font></font></p><p class="headline_meta" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in <span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="http://www.texassharon.com/category/barnett-shale/" title="View all posts in Barnett Shale" rel="category tag" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">BARNETT SHALE</a>, <a href="http://www.texassharon.com/category/parker-county/" title="View all posts in Parker County" rel="category tag" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">PARKER COUNTY</a>, <a href="http://www.texassharon.com/category/range-resources/" title="View all posts in Range Resources" rel="category tag" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">RANGE RESOURCES</a></span></font></font></font></p></div><div class="format_text entry-content" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.571em;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Please read this post then <a href="http://t.co/9ja5DdqXJt" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">take this important action</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I know you will be shocked, Dear Readers, but according to <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/news/investigates/bVIDEOb-Records-show-drilling-operation-violated-state-law-while-water-wells-contaminated-215185181.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">a new report by WFAA’s Brett Shipp</a> (see video below), the Texas Railroad Commission did not apply its own Statewide Rule 13 in the Range Resources water contamination case in Parker County. They also ignored in their court hearing a violation they issued to Range.</font></font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For some background on this case, see. “<a href="http://www.texassharon.com/2013/02/21/range-resources-and-parker-county-water-contamination-case-i-told-you-so/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">…I told you so</a>.” Also, <a href="http://www.texassharon.com/2013/04/02/appeals-court-sends-range-resources-slapp-suit-against-lipsky-back-for-abatement/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">the Court of Appeals recently sent the SLAPP suit Range filed against the Lipskys back for “abatement”</a> but industry trade groups continue to ignore this new ruling linking instead to the district court rulings by the now <a href="http://www.texassharon.com/2013/05/24/two-judges-and-range-resources/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">disgraced Judge Trey Loftin</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I met Shelly Perdue several months ago. She has lived for years in her home near Steve Lipsky and across the street from where Range Resources drilled and fracked two gas wells. She had no problems with her water prior to Range’s activities. Her water drastically changed in 2009 shortly after Range was fracking across the street from her home in 2009. Her water now fizzes so much you can actually hear it like an Alka Seltzer. I saw and heard this myself. The headspace in her water well was tested by Range Resources and found to contain four times the explosive levels of methane (see test results below) yet Range said her water is safe.</font></font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px auto 6px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a title="View Results of Range Resources water testing in Parker County on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/153305928/Results-of-Range-Resources-water-testing-in-Parker-County" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Results of Range Resources water testing in Parker County</font></a></font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WFAA news video: <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/news/investigates/bVIDEOb-Records-show-drilling-operation-violated-state-law-while-water-wells-contaminated-215185181.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Records show drilling operation violated law while water wells contaminated</a></font></font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div style="padding: 0px 4px 4px; margin: 0px; width: 470px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.wfaa.com/" title="wfaa.com" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://media.wfaa.com/designimages/wfaa_vidWrapperIcon.png" title="wfaa.com" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none; float: left;" /></font></a><span style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-shadow: none; float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.wfaa.com/video" title="Video" style="padding: 0px 4px; margin: 0px; text-shadow: none;">Video</a> | <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/news" title="News" style="padding: 0px 4px; margin: 0px; text-shadow: none;">News</a> | <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/weather" title="Weather" style="padding: 0px 4px; margin: 0px; text-shadow: none;">Weather</a> | <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/sports" title="Sports" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; margin: 0px; text-shadow: none;">Sports</a></font></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; clear: both;" /></font></font></font><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-shadow: none; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thu Jul 11 21:00:57 PDT 2013</font></font></font></p><h2 style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; text-shadow: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Records show drilling operation violated law while water wells contaminated</font></h2><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 14px; text-shadow: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A News 8 investigation has obtained records showing a drilling operation was in violation of state law at the same time area land owners say their water wells were suddenly contaminated with natural gas. <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/news/investigates/bVIDEOb-Records-show-drilling-operation-violated-state-law-while-water-wells-contaminated-215185181.html" title="Records show drilling operation violated law while water wells contaminated" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-shadow: none;">view full article</a></font></p></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry trade groups say the videos of Lipsky’s water well venting gas are a hoax. FrackNation director even made the outrageous claim that his hose was hooked up to the house gas line. But that was proven false in earlier reporting by Brett Shipp. See <a href="http://www.texassharon.com/2013/02/13/water-on-fire-in-texas/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">WATER ON FIRE IN TEXAS</a>. Of course that doesn’t stop the industry and their minions from repeating that lie, which they did yesterday.</font></font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also continue to claim that I had some involvement in this case. This despite the fact that <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyjlpfwf0wjbqbs/Court%20of%20Appeals%204-1-13.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">the Court of Appeals found no evidence to support any conspiracy</a>. 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Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In America, radical environmental groups get something of a cultural free pass. </span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's understandable, because America is a two-party country. Due to that, otherwise scientifically literate Democrats will rationalize the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">anti-vaccine, anti-GMO and anti-nuclear members </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">under their umbrella as being 'anti-corporate' while scientifically literate Republicans don the same blinders about climate science and denial of evolution.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But climate change is not going to kill anyone for decades and evolution acceptance makes little difference at all in science literacy, much less saving lives. Demonizing food and medicine has real-world implications right now, as we have seen in anti-science progressive hotbeds like California and New York and in countries where children are dying or going blind. Internationally, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Golden Rice</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has been vilified for reasons that make little sense, it is a vitamin-enriched, open source product that is as well-tested as anything in the history of the world.  Big Green needs a steady diet of things to alarm members about so somehow Golden Rice became a target.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Because...because...precautionary principle!</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No one stands up to them in any real way - the right has no credibility among their membership and the left doesn't want to alienate them, since we have elections every two years -  </span><a href="http://m.greenpeace.org/international/en/base/press/releases/Executives-facing-climate-denial-related-claims-could-be-personally-liable---NGOs/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">so they can write warning letters to corporations telling their </a><a href="http://m.greenpeace.org/international/en/base/press/releases/Executives-facing-climate-denial-related-claims-could-be-personally-liable---NGOs/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CEOs they are going to be personally liable in lawsuits if they oppose any climate change policies</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and there is little complaint. Imagine the backlash if Republicans wrote the same thing to people about their science policy. </span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other countries are less forgiving. New Zealand and Canada pulled the tax-exempt status of the $360 million empire known as Greenpeace</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Yes, the country where Greenpeace began now contends that organization has no “public benefit” for Canadians.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">India went even further, essentially </span><a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/ib-report-to-pmo-greenpeace-is-a-threat-to-national-economic-security/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">accusing them of funding insurgency</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the same way the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Obama administration incites rebellion in Syria. </span><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/05/holding-greenpeace-accountable-n1859007" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Writing at Town Hall</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Paul </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Driessen</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, author of </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eco-Imperialism</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, notes that Greenpeace and other groups have been actively blocking energy projects in a country where the equivalent population of the entire United States has no electricity.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Instead of getting power plants, they have to burn dried feces and wood for cooking and heat. How is that better for the environment? If President Bush had implemented those policies, how many petitions would Union of Concerned Scientists have created? Their complaints about the anti-science policies of the Obama years are still sitting at zero.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That is not eco-justice, it is not fairness or tolerance or compassion, it is a human rights violation. But instead of taking a stand, like Canada and India and New Zealand, the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">US has reversed Bush-era policies in places like Africa and now penalizes the 700 million people there with no electricity - because of the administration's climate change policy.</span>

<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/05/holding-greenpeace-accountable-n1859007/page/full" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Holding Greenpeace Accountable</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by Paul Driessen, TownHall.com</span>

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