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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">baaaacckk pitched a hissy fit about something and took hs blogs and went home?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">surprisingly good on </font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">hydroxychloroquine</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">some ex BM guy, but mebbe acsh</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">oreskes twt --><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/science-journalism-can-be-evidence-based-compelling-and-wrong-1.21591?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews"> https://www.nature.com/news/science-journalism-can-be-evidence-based-compelling-and-wrong-1.21591?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews</a></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.65em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There has been much gnashing of teeth in the science-journalism community this week, with the </span><a href="http://go.nature.com/2mhmupd" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">release of an infographic</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.65em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/03/05/infographic-best-and-worst-science-news-sites-10948">https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/03/05/infographic-best-and-worst-science-news-sites-10948</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.65em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">that claims to rate the best and worst sites for scientific news.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> According to the American Council on Science and Health, which helped to prepare the ranking, the field is in a shoddy state. “If journalism as a whole is bad (and it is),” says the council, “science journalism is even worse. Not only is it susceptible to the same sorts of biases that afflict regular journalism, but it is uniquely vulnerable to outrageous sensationalism”.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.65em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">News aggregator RealClearScience, <a href="http://go.nature.com/2lrzx8d" style="text-decoration-line: none;">which also worked on the analysis</a>, goes further: “Much of science reporting is a morass of ideologically driven <b>junk science</b>, hyped research, or thick, technical jargon that almost no one can understand”.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.65em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How — without bias or outrageous sensationalism, of course — do they judge the newspapers and magazines that emerge from this sludge? Simple: they rank each by how evidence-based and compelling they subjectively judge its content to be. Modesty (almost) prevents us from naming the publication graded highest on both (okay, it’s <i>Nature</i>), but some names are lower than they would like. Big hitters including <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post </i>and <i>The Guardian </i>score relatively poorly.....</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">he quit acsh and pulled his blogs?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div id="article-info" class="node-info" style="font-size: small; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/hank_campbell" title="View user profile." style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Hank Campbell</a> | September 12th 2019 </font></div><div id="node-wrapper" class="node-common" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 650px; border-bottom: none;"><div id="article-content" class="content main-content article" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0.6em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman PC, which collaborates with organic company trade groups like </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180609195837/https://www.deniersforhire.com/industry-front-groups/us-right-to-know/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">U.S. Right To Know</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and hand-puppets they control, such as the so-called "Industry Docs"</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> industry <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">fifth columnists</span> embedded inside U.C. San Francisco,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> exists to make money. They are lawyers, after all.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And it looks like Genetic Literacy Project, run by </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">best-selling author and fan of science Jon Entine, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has them in a financial sweat, </span><a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/9-19-entine-glp-monsanto-trolls/" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">because they have put out a new hit piece on him</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ... and they aren't even bothering to get </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180609195837/https://www.deniersforhire.com/industry-front-groups/organic-consumers-association/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Organic Consumers Association</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or one of their flunkies - </span><a href="https://www.deniersforhire.com/bad-journalists/paul-thacker/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Paul Thacker</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> <a href="https://www.deniersforhire.com/bad-journalists/michael-balter/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Mike Balter</a>, <a href="https://www.deniersforhire.com/bad-journalists/charles-seife/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Charles Seife</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(insert any discredited former journalist here) - to put their name on it, they have it under their own moniker.</span>

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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They're trial lawyers, facts are irrelevant, it's all about emotion....</span></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.climatedocket.com/2019/06/26/exxon-climate-denial-american-council-science-health/">https://www.climatedocket.com/2019/06/26/exxon-climate-denial-american-council-science-health/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>exxonMobil is funding a little-known nonprofit that calls itself a “pro-science advocacy organization,” but whose scientific advisory board <a href="https://www.acsh.org/our-team" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">includes</a> several renowned climate deniers and has worked for decades to sow doubt about the health impacts of climate change.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Records show the ExxonMobil Foundation <a href="https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/Global/Files/worldwide-giving/2017-Health-and-Env-Worldwide-Giving.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">provided</a> grants of at least $60,000 in both <a href="https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/Global/Files/worldwide-giving/2017-Health-and-Env-Worldwide-Giving.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">2017</a> and <a href="https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/Global/Files/worldwide-giving/2018-Worldwide-Giving-Report.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">2018</a> to the <a href="https://www.acsh.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">American Council on Science and Health</a> (ACSH), a group that says its mission is to “publicly support evidence-based science and medicine.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Members of the ACSH scientific advisory board, however, include a who’s who of climate deniers, including<b> Patrick J. Michaels</b>, who has worked for more than 30 years on behalf of the fossil fuel industry;<b> S. Fred Singer, </b>who last year wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-commentary-grossly-misleads-readers-about-science-of-sea-level-rise-fred-singer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">falsely</a> claiming that sea level rise is not caused by climate change; and<b> William Happer,</b> a current <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/01/698073442/heres-the-white-houses-top-climate-change-skeptic" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">member</a> of President Trump’s National Security Council who as recently as 2016 argued that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5756991-Mobil-Grants-with-annotations.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Documents</a> recently revealed in an <span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.1s; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: all;">investigation by The Guardian</span> guk show ExxonMobil’s current funding of the ACSH began prior to 1999, when Exxon and Mobil <a href="https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/company/who-we-are/our-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">merged</a> to become Exxon Mobil Corporation, one of the largest oil companies in the world.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ACSH is a front group for libertarian billionaires, fossil fuel companies, and basically every other industry selling dangerous products,” said </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Geoffrey Supran, a Harvard University researcher</b> who in 2017 <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">published a study</a> that showed how Exxon’s internal memos take the climate issue seriously while its public communications emphasize doubt about the science.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ACSH has also defended fracking as safe for the environment, denied the dangers of bisphenol-A (BPA) and opposed efforts to limit sugar in sodas, among other pro-industry stances.</b> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporations fund nonprofits, think tanks and trade groups, many of which are “dark money” organizations that do not disclose their donors to the public, to further their interests without directly being tied to the groups’ work. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is just one more example of how these large corporations use third-party organizations to convey their message without being directly connected to them,” said Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert Brulle, who is now a visiting professor of environment and society at Brown University.  <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It fits exactly with the kind of stuff ExxonMobil has done for years and years—this is exactly their strategy,” said Brulle, who has studied the funding patterns of organizations connected to climate denial. “The question is what is still going on and why does Exxon still have its connection to this group after all these years?” <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to its questionable science advisory board, the ACSH board of trustees includes Fred L. Smith, founder of the conservative think tank <a href="https://www.acsh.org/about-acsh/meet-the-team/fred-l-smith-jr" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI) and current director of CEI’s <a href="https://cei.org/expert/fred-l-smith-jr" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Center for Advancing Capitalism</a>. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a bit of irony, Exxon said in 2006 it would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/sep/20/oilandpetrol.business" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">stop funding CEI</a> (which it had given nearly $2 million between 1998-2005) because of <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2006/09/20/news/companies/exxon_funding/index.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">its work denying climate change</a>, but it continued to fund ACSH at least through 2018, the last year for which data is available.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil’s current funding of ACSH is a continuation of a <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/acsh-financial-summary.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">relationship</a> that goes back decades.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Prior to merging in 1999, Exxon and Mobil<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5756991-Mobil-Grants-with-annotations.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"> </a>both funded the ACSH,</b> according to internal Mobil Foundation <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5756991-Mobil-Grants-with-annotations.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">documents</a>, which include a list of potential grant recipients as well as Mobil’s justification for the funding decision. They <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/12/mobil-foundation-donations-oil-company" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">reveal</a> that the Mobil Foundation provided at least $125,000 in grants to the ACSH between 1981-93 and funding was expected to continue into 1994.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Mobil Foundation <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5756991-Mobil-Grants-with-annotations.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">recommended</a> continuing to provide funding to the ACSH in part because “the Council has achieved high credibility and recognition in the media and scientific community, as evidenced by wide publication of their positions in the press and scientific journals.” <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s unclear what the most recent ExxonMobil Foundation grants were used for, but <a href="https://www.acsh.org/profile/alex-berezow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Alex Berezow</a>, vice president of scientific affairs for ACSH, said they weren’t designated for any specific research or project.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Our policy for the past several years precludes us from doing specific research in exchange for corporate grants,” Berezow said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Since its founding in 1978, the ACSH has worked to promote<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"> corporate</a><a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-the-american-council-on-science-and-health/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"> positions</a> on science, most often taking the<a href="https://www.acsh.org/Publications" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"> position</a> that chemicals are not a threat to humans or the environment.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s a quintessential anti-science astroturf in the fossil fuel industry’s web of denial and delay—this is an organization founded by money from libertarian ideologues like the Scaifes, Olins, and Kochs,” Supran said. “Unsurprisingly therefore, ACSH’s rhetoric on the climate crisis since the 1990’s has masterfully complemented the talking points of its<b> fossil fuel funders, including Exxon, Mobil, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>.”</b></span></font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon, Mobil and “The Great Defender of Petrochemical Companies”</font></span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACSH was founded in 1978 by Elizabeth Whelan, a public health scientist with postgraduate degrees from Yale and Harvard, who died in 2014. She wanted to counteract the work of environmental and consumer advocacy groups, which she said were not using sound science about the dangers of products to the environment and public health. “We help policymakers see past scaremongers and activist groups who have targeted GMOs, vaccines, conventional agriculture, nuclear power, natural gas, and ‘chemicals,’ while peddling health scares and fad diets,” the <a href="https://www.acsh.org/about-acsh-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">ACSH website says</a>. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s unknown whether Exxon and Mobil’s funding was used for a specific project or research, but the ACSH grant was recommended by Mobil’s public relations department, which said Whelan’s work was a major benefit to the company. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Whelan’s description of the ACSH was much more candid. In a 1992 memo, she <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">referred</a> to the organization as “the great defender of petrochemical companies.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a 1998 article titled, <a href="https://www.pop.org/global-warming-not-health-threat-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Global Warming Not Health Threat</em></a>, Whelan wrote that climate science is “is rife with uncertainty as are the allegations for the health effects” and climate change models are “far from perfect.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As for the hypothetical health effects that are based on the alleged global warming, these predictions are even more dubious,” wrote Whelan, adding that limiting greenhouse gas emissions could worsen human health in developing countries.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supran said ACSH vociferously promoted Mobil’s position that addressing climate change would result in severe adverse economic impacts and increase poverty.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“ACSH was and is a talking head, amplifying the fossil fuel industry’s narrative while maintaining the false pretense of an “independent” voice,” Supran said. “Their rhetoric faithfully echoed Mobil’s key themes of doubt: that global warming is not real and human-caused, not serious, and not solvable.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil did not respond to a request for comment.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wanted: Studies to “Put Climate Change Health Hazards in Perspective”</font></span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was at the urging of Mobil that the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), <a href="https://www.climatedocket.com/2019/04/25/gcc-global-climate-coalition-history/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">a fossil fuel industry-backed group</a> that worked from 1989 to 2002 to strategically undermine international climate negotiations, looked to the ACSH for help downplaying the potential health effects of climate change.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">By the mid-1990’s, the GCC and its fossil fuel members, including many ACSH funders, had become <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5631463-AIAM-051494.html#document/p3/a493214" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">concerned</a> about the growing body of research suggesting climate change could cause serious health impacts</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon scientists Dennis Devlin and Barry Friedlander presented a summary of published literature on the health impacts of climate change during a September 1996 meeting of the Global Climate Coalition’s Science and Technology Assessment Committee. The <a href="http://www.climatefiles.com/exxonmobil/1996-purported-impact-climate-change-human-health/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">presentation</a> emphasized “key knowledge gaps” and “advocated critical evaluation of models and ongoing studies to put climate change health hazards in perspective.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the presentation, the GCC meeting attendees <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5631463-AIAM-051494.html#document/p3/a493214" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">discussed</a> the findings and brainstormed “ways of encouraging a more balanced scientific evaluation of this concern.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>To provide that “balance,” Lenny Bernstein of Mobil suggested Whelan and the ACSH.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernstein told the group that Whelan was considering an “independent assessment on the climate change and health issue.” He also noted that many of the Global Climate Coalition’s member companies financially support the ACSH and urged them to contact her to suggest she write an assessment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The health issue is increasing in importance with the climate change issue, as with other environmental issues,” wrote the Global Climate Coalition in meeting minutes from January 1997. “The GCC has got to be prepared to respond to the issue this year.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Disregarding the growing body of research indicating otherwise, the GCC in early 1997 <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5631474-1997-02-25-Issues-Related-to-Potential-Health.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">wrote</a> in a position paper that “attempting to link global climate change and adverse health impacts requires a long and very tenuous stretch.”  The group downplayed the work of a 1995 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—an intergovernmental body of the United Nations that includes the world’s leading climate scientists—writing “concerns that climate change might be the cause of various health problems rests on a number of unproved assumptions.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Global Climate Coalition also provided the ACSH with a two-part grant to study the health effects of climate change.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The study, however, would be anything but independent.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By early summer 1997, the GCC had <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5689216-AIAM-052769.html#document/p3/a475977" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">reviewed</a> a draft of the report and suggested edits. The ACSH then began working on a rewritten draft to be reviewed by GCC committee members. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s unclear if that report was ever published, but later that year the ACSH published “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3869610-American-Council-on-Science-and-Health-Acsh.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Global climate change and human health</a>.”  </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> As the GCC had hoped, the report downplayed the views of mainstream science and said “implementation of current proposals for mitigation measures—measures to stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—would be both costly and ineffective.”</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brulle said corporations and industry groups like the GCC use organizations like the ACSH to add a “veneer of legitimacy.” <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This really fits directly into this whole strategy of third party spokespersons, taking your point, but not attributing it to you, it’s attributed to an ‘independent’ organization,” Brulle said. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ACSH report did not disclose its funders, but concluded that “policymakers can safely take several decades to plan a response, and scientists will have enough time to develop cost-effective anti-climate-change strategies.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked if the published report was funded by the Global Climate Coalition or if another report was published, Berezow said he did not know.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Anyone who would know the answer to that question is either deceased or retired,” he said.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACSH Benefits to ExxonMobil: Denial and Delay</font></span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">After years of scrutiny, ExxonMobil has <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/exxonmobil-still-funding-climate-science-denier-groups" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">stopped</a> funding some of the more vocal climate deniers and organizations. In addition to dropping CEI, the oil giant has ended its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council and has said it no longer funds the Cato Institute, the Heartland Institute and the Institute for Energy Research, all organizations that are heavily industry-influenced and have worked for years to deny climate change and delay the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.  </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But ExxonMobil continues to fund the ACSH </b>despite the organization’s <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/02/26/poverty-not-climate-change-remains-worlds-deadliest-problem-12635" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">position</a> that “climate change is a slow-moving threat whose consequences are in the medium- to long-term future, not the near-term.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We typically only talk about climate change tangentially. For instance, we support Generation IV nuclear power because, among many other things, it helps reduce carbon emission</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s,” Berezow said, adding that the organization’s main focus is on biomedical science and public health.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brulle said while using third-party spokespeople and groups like the ACSH isn’t new, ExxonMobil’s continued relationship is notable.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I do find it a little surprising that ExxonMobil would be cozy enough to be directly connected to this group,” Brulle said. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supran said ACSH continues to be an excellent investment for ExxonMobil.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In a 2016 ACSH article <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/06/03/meet-the-scientific-outcasts-and-mavericks" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">promoting</a> the authority of discredited and debunked climate deniers and delayers, for instance, ExxonMobil’s funding fingerprints are nowhere to be found,” Supran said, referring to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meet the Scientific Outcasts and Mavericks, </em>which was authored by <b>Berezow.</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In </span><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/03/22/are-%E2%80%98green-20%E2%80%99-suppressing-scientific-dissent-10973" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Are The ‘Green 20’ Suppressing Scientific Dissent?</em></a><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box;">,</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> posted in 2017, then-ACSH president</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b style=""> Hank Campbell,</b> </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">critiqued the New York attorney general’s office for its investigation of ExxonMobil for possibly deceiving its investors on the risks of climate change.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">   </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In another, <a href="http://acsh.org/news/2017/02/13/save-world-chan-zuckerberg-should-spend-money-boring-stuff-10859" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Al Gore: Still Demented After All These Years</em></a>, Berezow said in 2017 that the world’s biggest health problem is poverty, not climate change. “When it comes to human disease, climate change is mostly a distraction. Eliminating poverty will do far more to save people’s lives than lowering the temperature a notch,” Berezow said. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nowhere on the ACSH website is ExxonMobil’s <a href="https://www.acsh.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=%22exxonmobil+foundation%22" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">funding</a> acknowledged.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As it’s grown more publicly untenable for companies themselves to publicly deny basic science, front groups like ACSH help do their dirty work,” said Supran, adding that the ACSH is a prime example of how ExxonMobil’s denial and delay continue through increasingly veiled initiatives.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“ACSH’s faux-scientific <a href="https://www.acsh.org/about-acsh-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">calls</a> for ’evidence-based science’ and its fixation on false dichotomies between meaningful climate action on the one hand, and poverty reduction and economic growth on the other, align with, extend, and amplify ExxonMobil’s own talking points,” he said. “The rhetoric has shifted an inch, but it’s just a rose by any other name—the goal is the same: inaction.”</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ref BS</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div>if you know a local politician has accepted a small fortune, $300,000, from corporations with a specific agenda, would you believe:</div><div>
</div><div>(1) They are compartmentalizing their decisions so funding does not matter;</div><div>
</div><div>(2) They are simply getting donations for beliefs and work they've already done, so it does not sway them or;</div><div>
</div><div>(3) They are engaged in pay-for-play.</div><div>
</div><div><b>If you are at politically-motivated, dark-money-funded sites like Mother Jones or Sourcewatch, or at one of the 300 corporate marketing groups (US Right To Know et al.) that are propped up by Organic Consumers Association</b>, the answer will always be (3) because you sell stories of conspiracies and evil corporations and scientists being bought off.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">How about if I add a wrinkle? What if I note that the politician in question is a Democrat, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and the <b>corporate donors are environmental corporations rather than the for-profit kind</b>, and that he is in a war with Exxon-Mobil</span>? Is the politician still being bought off as a Denier For Hire or is he no longer a Merchant Of Doubt because he matches the political party those groups endorse, and it's about the only science (climate change) they claim to accept, and that he is against a corporation?</div><div>
</div><div>No, as experience has shown they frame the issue much differently when it matches the political goals of their funders. There is a reason for the easy switch and it strikes to the core of their agenda. They are not about defending science, they are instead about suppressing science dissent. And it may be why they support A.G. Schneiderman - he can accomplish using judicial means what activist groups cannot using the fearmongering kind.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology has issued subpoenas to Schneiderman because the supporters of his effort to suppress dozens of science groups with legal threats look a lot like his donors. Well, they are his donors. </b></div><div>
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</div><div>Mainstream media, and especially environmental groups, love what legitimate science media like to call "The Myth Of The Oppressed Underdog" where some lone advocate stands up against insurmountable odds. Examples are a vegetable that can do for free what Big Pharma charges for medicine, a chemical company preventing damaging evidence of a carcinogen from seeing daylight, or a fired employee who hands a bunch of stolen documents over to Mother Jones about pro-science consumer advocates (that one actually happened to us) so they can <b>weave a fairy tale about secret funding. Oh, and that oil companies knew the ice caps were melting 40 years ago and suppressed it.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Mother Jones loves to write about that stuff, those Goldsmith Prizes won't win themselves, and pretty soon, everyone among their political allies, from Scienceblogs to NYU journalism professors, chimes in and no one ever asks the awkward question legitimate journalists ask; is any of it true?</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A running joke in science circles about the conspiracy tales woven by partisan academics like Naomi Oreskes and supposed "science" tweeters, is that if scientists are so easily bought off - they routinely claim Monsanto has subverted the biology and food research community using money - why can't Exxon, with 15X the revenue, buy off climate scientists? It fails basic common sense. Yet as we have seen thanks to Freedom of Information Act request documents, anti-science activists have created a real conspiracy to combat a manufactured one. They not only promote their work inside their "echo chamber", they even call it an echo chamber and gladly amplify each other's conspiracy stories.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><b>It happened again a few weeks ago. A cabal of environmentalists, including many in the 'Green 20', demanded that USA Today not publish our scientists and doctors - they created a petition to demand actual censorship - insisting we are an "industry front group" because we defend science. </b>Any examination of our Form 990, and the fact that we have 1/1000th the revenue of the anti-science groups signing the petition, shows their claim is an obvious fabrication. Yet people inside the echo chamber pitched in to help anyway.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A few days later, Harvard's Naomi Oreskes demanded that Nature magazine not publish our examination of credible versus non-credible science sites. When she wasn't devoting her Twitter feed to retweeting progressive anti-science billionaire Tom Steyer, that is.</span></div><div>
</div><div>She helps because bans and suppression match the agenda of the groups she politically supports. And they dutifully cheered her on. A Seattle Times journalist and partisan professors at New York University joined in to endorse censorship as well, they all even used the exact same verbiage they read in that organic marketing group email asking people to<b> create an echo chamber and</b> <b>get us banned. </b>They hope that if a lie is repeated often enough, it will look like truth.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In a sense, they are correct for believing they can manufacture a truth out of lies. They have done it many times. Last year, a group of Attorneys General listed us on a subpoena, claiming we were paid shills to undermine climate science.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Who was first among them? A.G. Schneiderman, who got $300,000 from organizations opposed to science - all science except global warming, that is.</b></div><div>
</div><div>It was an odd stance. What do we not write about here? Climate science. </div><div>
</div><div>Yet despite that, a few state attorneys wanted to bring the full force of their governments down on us, to mire us in legal paperwork, to drain our small budget fighting a conspiracy story that was manufactured due to some old documents which were written by people at Exxon (as early as 1951, and in the 1970s by internal advocates for electric cars, synthetic oil, etc.) </div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Had Attorney Scheiderman done any research, he would know we didn't undermine global warming any more than a malaria group that works in Africa did. Instead, his donors groomed him to take us on by providing our name on a list for him. They wanted to make sure that we were not covering any science issues that their supporters do not accept. It wasn't about climate change; environmental groups don't want us defending vaccines, they don't want us defending affordable energy policies, they don't want us defending agriculture. It's their eugenics beliefs repurposed for the modern age.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>It didn't work, we fought back and one Attorney General dropped the case when we mobilized outrage among the public who agree that government attorneys should be fighting real problems in their states, not acting as proxies for their environmental group donors</b>. The public agree these officials certainly should not be smearing science groups in order to solicit donations from billionaires and boost their prestige for a run at the governor's office, as Schneiderman has done.</div><div>
</div><div>Emails obtained under Freedom of Information Act requests show that Attorney Schneiderman’s office even encouraged at least one green group lawyer to specifically not mention their coordination to the press.</div><div>
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</div><div>It has to be regarded as odd that Attorney Schneiderman seeks to penalize science groups using Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) laws while his office behaves like the mafia do. Almost $300,000 in campaign donations from environmentalist donors opposed to science. The list of wealthy anti-science progressives he has curried is long, including members of the the <b>Soros family and the same Tom Steyer that elite academics follow around.</b></div><div>
</div><div>It isn't just pro-science groups who object to this attempt to create an "icy chill" effect about science education. Other Attorneys General across the nation have been uniformly critical. Even one from New York.<b> “It all smacks of politics,” said former New York AG Dennis Vacco.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“What’s unsettling to me about this probe is that many of Attorney General Schneiderman’s supporters are investors in alternative-energy companies and enemies of Exxon.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>Unconcerned by this obvious conflict of interest. All those academics who never seem to notice when it is one of their political allies.</div><div>
</div><div>The concern by other attorneys is warranted. How are they supposed to look like public defenders of their citizens when high-profile counterparts in states that routinely demonize science use their offices to remove the rights of people their donors happen not to like?</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ref tabloid</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div class="article-header" style=""><div class="entry-content entry-content-read-more" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 40px; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">when state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman <a href="https://nypost.com/2015/11/05/ag-investigates-what-exxon-knew-about-climate-change-and-when-they-knew-it/" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">took on ExxonMobil over climate change last year</a>, it seemed like an odd global crusade for a local politician.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Perhaps he was drilling for campaign cash, critics now contend after The Post obtained an e-mail that appears to show the state’s top cop was seeking a tree-hugging billionaire’s help to finance a run for governor in 2018.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2016, four months after announcing the Exxon probe, the Democratic AG tried to arrange a phone meeting with hedge-fund mogul Tom Steyer, an environmental activist and Exxon enemy.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Eric Schneiderman would like to have a call with Tom regarding support for his race for governor . . . regarding Exxon case,</b>” reads the March 10 e-mail.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The note was sent by Steyer lawyer Ted White to Erin Suhr, Steyer’s director of strategic planning at Fahr LLC, which oversees Steyer’s political and philanthropic efforts. White, a Colorado lawyer, is Fahr’s managing partner.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Anyone have any flags on this call before I add to Tom’s call sheet for Monday?” Suhr replied the next day in an e-mail.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman for Steyer and the two Fahr execs confirmed the e-mail exchange but said the phone meeting never happened.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She also said White has not donated to the AG’s campaign.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steyer is a heavyweight Dem donor who has poured cash into Hillary Clinton’s coffers, organized a fund-raiser for President Obama and helped bankroll Clinton acolyte Terry McAuliffe’s successful 2013 gubernatorial bid in Virginia. Steyer’s NextGen Climate Action PAC spent nearly $70 million on elections in 2014.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Steyer had accused Exxon of misleading investors on climate change for nearly 30 years. In January, as Schneiderman rallied attorneys general in other states to the cause, Steyer urged California’s attorney general to join the investigation.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But with AGs deserting the case, many wonder why Schneiderman took on an issue so far afield.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It all smacks of politics,” said former New York AG Dennis Vacco. “What’s unsettling to me about this probe is that many of Attorney General Schneiderman’s supporters are investors in alternative-energy companies and enemies of Exxon.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The March e-mail alludes to a run for governor, but Schneiderman had denied any such ambition months earlier, telling Politico on Nov. 12, “I am not running for governor in 2018.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His spokesman, Eric Soufer, called the e-mails “nonsense” and said neither the AG nor his staff communicated with White or Steyer about a run for governor.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“If anything, Mr. White may be referring to Mr. Steyer’s reported interest in a run for governor of California,”</b> Soufer said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But a source close to White told The Post, “That’s not our interpretation of the e-mail.”</font></p></div></div><div class="tag-list" style="margin-bottom: 40px; clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 12px; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">u<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">S. Right To Know is a small marketing group devoted primarily to endorsing the organic food process and undermining conventional agriculture. Nearly 100 percent of their funding comes from organic food companies, and they seem to believe that for organic food to be cost-effective, regular farming has to become more expensive.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(1)</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Like Sourcewatch, Mother Jones and a few others, they are what the science community calls Deniers For Hire</b>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the junkyard dogs of politically partisan anti-science groups. They hate farmers, and they hate affordable energy, but they hate scientists and doctors most of all</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(2)</strong></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">
</strong></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, they are not paid to be ethical, they are paid to get results for their clients, so since they are stuck blogging on Huffington Post we can't really be surprised they are demanding that America's large newspapers stop publishing articles by our scientists and doctors - unless newspapers give their screeching about chemophobia equal time. <a href="https://usrtk.org/news-releases/public-interest-groups-to-usa-today-ditch-corporate-front-group-science-columns/?source=acsh.org" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">The press release I saw</a> (yes, unlike us they actually have to pay to be read)<b> pleaded to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">USA Today </em>to ban us<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</em> </b>but it's reasonable to assume they also tried to suppress freedom of speech at <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Post</em>, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Economist</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">BBC</em> and lots of regional newspapers where we have written recently. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(3)</strong></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">They wrote:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 11px 22px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We note that financial documents obtained by Mother Jones show that ACSH has received funding from tobacco, chemical, pharmaceutical and oil corporations. </font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>First, if you are a scientist, the question you have is, so what? Go to an American Heart Association conference, or AAAS, or any large science and health non-profit and there will be corporate donors everywhere</b>. Ironically, if you also go to the USRTK website they proudly proclaim that 97% of their revenue is from corporations. Maybe they are paid shills for corporations, so they assume everyone in science must also be.</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">What about their claims? Again, most scientists want funding wherever they can get it, and as long as there are no strings attached they will take it. ACSH was founded by scientists and we've had numerous world-famous people on our advisory board. None ever expressed a concern about funding. Tobacco companies have been rightly vilified, and for good reason, but a decade ago they decided to do what we had been telling them to do for our entire existence - get out of the cigarette business. We <b>have long embraced smoking cessation and harm reduction tools (gums, patches, vaping, chew, snus, </b>whatever) to stop addicted people from inhaling 200 toxic chemicals per death stick.</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">Why would a group claiming to care about the public when it comes to food science endorse keeping a tobacco company in the business of selling cigarettes? Yet that is what their naive attempt at promoting fear and doubt about our work is accomplishing. If you ban the groups opposed to cigarettes...well, you are not an environmental activist so you can figure it out.</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"><b>So tobacco companies finally did something useful with their money and gave us an unrestricted grant to help fund our smoking cessation programs.</b> What have we never backed off on? Criticizing cigarettes. It was a grant, we don't get funding from them now, but that money funded a lot of other valuable projects and we made no secret of their involvement. Chemical companies? Where? I totaled up the last four years and the donations from people who are involved with chemical companies total 1% of our budget. Pharmaceutical companies are zero. Oil companies, zero. Now, I confess I can't be completely sure of the zeroes, because donors don't have to disclose where they work, but if 10,000 employees at Chevron were secretly donating small amounts to equal a large amount<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (4) </strong>I think I'd know it by now. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(5)</strong></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">So the groups they list total less than the 3% of USRTK donors that are <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not</em> corporations. Why would any editor with critical thinking skills pay them any attention?</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">I get that organic food marketing groups are trapped in the 18th century regarding food production but I hope they would have embraced modern literacy by now. If they have, and if they really want to try and claim we are a "corporate front group" without looking like the anti-science equivalent of an Obama Birther, they should be able to find some evidence that any of our work was ever manufactured for a donor in our 39 year history. But they can't, no one can, it never happened, and so the best they can do is repeat the old claims of a fired employee who cobbled together readily available documents and gave them to a partisan magazine that exists to engage in politicization of science. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(6)</strong> Go to the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mother Jones</em> site right now and the place is littered with ads for organic food and bogus supplements. No wonder they hate us. <a href="http://www.acsh.org/news/2016/06/06/no-mother-jones-lexus-does-not-control-hockey-game-scores" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">And the last time I checked 84 percent of Mother Jones revenue was <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">dark money</strong></a>, they don't disclose where it comes from, they even created a parent foundation just to launder corporate money so <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mother Jones</em> employees can claim they don't take any.</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">The only thing sillier than asking media outlets to ban scientists and doctors is thinking that the vacuum remaining would lead to newspapers filling it with anti-vaccine, anti-energy and anti-GMO nonsense produced by these activists. Sorry, it won't, that crap can get published in The Hill or HuffPo but not any place where people pay to read good content.</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">Hey Gary Ruskin, you run US Right To Know so I will make you an offer. I will trade all of my corporate grants from the last <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">four</em> years for 50% of your corporate funding from just last year. With the profit, I can hire another scientist and you would know you finally did something useful with your money, just like tobacco companies once did. Let me know if you want to take me up on that deal, or if you are just going to continue to whine because the American public wants to read the work of scientists and doctors while you remain trapped on the activist fringe, pleading for legitimacy.</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">P.S. If you are reading this and you <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">do</em> want to stand up to this kind of social authoritarian suppression of science, <a href="https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=acsh&id=1" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">please make a 100% tax-deductible donation</a> to us.  We promise to be worthy of your trust. And if you can't make a donation, please continue to read here, so you can at least know the difference between real health threats and the health scares the groups I discussed here are paid to manufacture.</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">NOTES:</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"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(1)</strong> At least they believe that, actual trade experts would show them examples where things like the automobile replaced the horse and buggy despite costing 100 times as much. But if they knew how agriculture works, they wouldn't be in the food scaremongering business, they'd be actual farmers.</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"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(2)</strong> Except climate scientists. Since environmentalists are doomsday prophets, they love climate science even as they defy logic. They insist biologists have all been bought off by Monsanto, for example, while ignoring the fact that Exxon has 15X the revenue of Monsanto yet somehow has not bought off the science community they insist is unethical and for sale. Unethical everywhere except climate science? With that level of deep thought, donating to modern environmental groups is kind of an IQ test. Except for The Nature Conservancy. I think they're pretty good.</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"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(3)</strong> Chicago, LA, San Diego, even Buffalo. If you are an editor at a newspaper and want one of our scientists or doctors to be the counterpoint to activist scaremongering, send an email to the address at the bottom of the page. Unlike the groups who want us banned, we're a nationally prominent, donor-supported, pro-science consumer advocacy group. It's what we do, and we'll do it for you.</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"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(4)</strong> Like NRDC does, so they can claim they technically don't take corporate money.</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"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(5)</strong> That said, if Chevron is reading this, please go ahead and have 10,000 employees donate to our science and health programs. And all of you other corporations also. It would then be the first time USRTK has been right about anything, even if they'd still be wrong in thinking funding sources dictate what our scientists and doctors do.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(6) </strong>They may actually believe that. I watched the Oscars on TV, because watching celebrities in $10,000 outfits tell poor Americans how oppressed celebrities are is always fun, and there were car commercials. Gary Ruskin and his fellow conspiracy theorists may assume Lexus is controlling the outcomes of Academy Awards because they sponsored the program, I have no idea. It makes as much sense as their weird claims about us. </font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div id="article-info" class="node-info" style="line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/hank_campbell" title="View user profile." style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hank Campbell</a> | September 12th 2019 </font></div><div id="node-wrapper" class="node-common" style="line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 650px; border-bottom: none;"><div id="article-content" class="content main-content article" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0.6em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman PC, which collaborates with organic company trade groups like </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180609195837/https://www.deniersforhire.com/industry-front-groups/us-right-to-know/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. Right To Know</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and hand-puppets they control, such as the so-called "Industry Docs"</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> industry </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">fifth columnists</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> embedded inside U.C. San Francisco,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> exists to make money. They are lawyers, after all.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And it looks like Genetic Literacy Project, run by best-selling author and fan of science Jon Entine, has them in a financial sweat, </span><a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/9-19-entine-glp-monsanto-trolls/" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">because they have put out a new hit piece on him</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ... and they aren't even bothering to get </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180609195837/https://www.deniersforhire.com/industry-front-groups/organic-consumers-association/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Organic Consumers Association</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or one of their flunkies - </span><a href="https://www.deniersforhire.com/bad-journalists/paul-thacker/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paul Thacker</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://www.deniersforhire.com/bad-journalists/michael-balter/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mike Balter</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://www.deniersforhire.com/bad-journalists/charles-seife/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charles Seife</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (insert any discredited former journalist here) - to put their name on it, they have it under their own moniker.</span>

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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They're trial lawyers, facts are irrelevant, it's all about emotion.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maybe they couldn't get one of their deniers for hire to write it, but that's unlikely. Those folks do what they are told. Maybe they wrote it specifically to shore up Denier-In-Chief Paul Thacker - their website is just about the only place he hasn't been retracted at this point - because they lovingly coo his tweet as their prize source.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Their motivations must remain unclear but one thing is evident; the article and artwork is apt because they trade in mythical monsters. Science is the big scary thing they need to convince juries is lurking in the pantry, so the blog post is right in line with their messaging.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And that messaging is to create their own mythology when they lack evidence.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet they know even less about mythical monsters than they do science. Though they call Entine a troll the image they use, notes </span><a href="https://medium.com/@welovegv" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stephan Neidenbach</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, is...orcs. And they don't attribute the art to anyone. Odd FOR A LAW FIRM THAT CLAIMS TO PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY. If they can't show they paid </span><a href="https://stock.adobe.com/103435726?as_campaign=TinEye&as_content=tineye_match&epi1=103435726&tduid=6c32f49babb67a57f62c3d605d29d869&as_channel=affiliate&as_campclass=redirect&as_source=arvato" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Adobe</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> $300 prior to the article appearing or at least </span><a href="https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/big-trolls-gm482877679-19592383" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$33 to iStock</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Getty images, are you reading this?), well, what does that say about them? If they rush to purchase a license after reading this article, it says all the public needs to know.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It took a five second search to find this image </span><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781849692908.do" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">going all the way back to 2012</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> yet Baum Hedlund doesn't give any credit for it, not </span><a href="https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/205941458/denzorr?load_type=author&prev_url=detail" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to denzoor</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or anyone else, when I can find its attribution on dozens of sites. Do they want to deceive the public into believing they are the originators of it? Or are they too important to bother with laws?</span></font></div><div id="article-content" class="content main-content article" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><a href="https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/coronavirus_treatment_retraction_shows_the_life_sciences_are_too_often_a_house_built_on_sand-247174" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">science20</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.com/hank_campbell/coronavirus_treatment_retraction_shows_the_life_sciences_are_too_often_a_house_built_on_sand-247174</span></font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hank campbell</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span palatino="Palatino" linotype="Linotype" book="Book" antiqua="Antiqua" freeserif="FreeSerif" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coronavirus Treatment Retraction Shows The Life Sciences Are Too Often ‘A House Built On Sand’</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...peer review is not what the public thinks it is. The overwhelmingly majority of journals get paid to publish their articles while ad-driven ones are relying on a finite pool of reviewers when the number of published studies has ballooned 20X in 20 years. Catching errors is difficult, catching faked results is even more difficult.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
The uncomfortable reality is that <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005738" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id%3D10.1371/journal.pone.0005738&source=gmail&ust=1586563001068000&usg=AFQjCNHCznZMXfYjKNa5M8yImRuyp65Dmg">one in fifty scientists admitted faking research</a> by fabricating or falsifying data while 33.7 percent admitted to questionable research practices. When it comes to knowledge of others doing it, that number jumped to 72 percent. Yet it’s rarely discovered. Even when other scientists blow the whistle, repercussions are few. As Ivan Oransky, who runs the website RetractionWatch, wrote in his chapter of <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6OfIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=%E2%80%9Cthe+most+common+outcome+for+those+who+commit+fraud+is:+a+long+career%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=x8Apj4ejed&sig=ACfU3U2hwjPLeLYdJZDO10W-QS6BT2F3-g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL7suLqdToAhVOsZ4KHSXTCGQQ6AEwAnoECAsQKA#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9Cthe%20most%20common%20outcome%20for%20those%20who%20commit%20fraud%20is%3A%20a%20long%20career%E2%80%9D&f=false" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3D6OfIDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA142%26lpg%3DPA142%26dq%3D%25E2%2580%259Cthe%2Bmost%2Bcommon%2Boutcome%2Bfor%2Bthose%2Bwho%2Bcommit%2Bfraud%2Bis:%2Ba%2Blong%2Bcareer%25E2%2580%259D%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3Dx8Apj4ejed%26sig%3DACfU3U2hwjPLeLYdJZDO10W-QS6BT2F3-g%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D2ahUKEwiL7suLqdToAhVOsZ4KHSXTCGQQ6AEwAnoECAsQKA%23v%3Donepage%26q%3D%25E2%2580%259Cthe%2520most%2520common%2520outcome%2520for%2520those%2520who%2520commit%2520fraud%2520is%253A%2520a%2520long%2520career%25E2%2580%259D%26f%3Dfalse&source=gmail&ust=1586563001069000&usg=AFQjCNGdrAd65AlSLpD678Ko9ucF4-IP6Q">Gaming the Metrics</a></em>, “In short, the most common outcome for those who commit fraud is: a long career.” It's easy to understand why schools may want fraud swept under the rug. <a href="https://areomagazine.com/2020/02/20/how-universities-cover-up-scientific-fraud/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://areomagazine.com/2020/02/20/how-universities-cover-up-scientific-fraud/&source=gmail&ust=1586563001069000&usg=AFQjCNH5bN9Bt1-9r8J8C9ZqMsd2s2yR3Q">Universities lose prestige</a> when it becomes known and that means less government money. If the researcher has tenure, the school faces lawsuits and will still have to pay years of salary before any punishment can be handed down. They may not even be able to fire the scientist. On the contributor side, if you are a young scientist who reveals fraud by a senior researcher, your career may be over.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4">This had profound implications for public policy long before 2020. For example, America has terrific air quality when it comes to actual smog that kills, particulate matter 10 microns in size (PM<sub>10</sub>), but our pollution standards this century have increasingly focused on <b>PM<sub>2.5</sub>,</b> invisible particles so minute you need an electron microscope to detect them. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began to focus on such ‘virtual’ pollution based on a statistical correlation that did not include raw data they could independently verify. New cars were forced to meet increasingly stringent standards for PM<sub>2.5 </sub>which made them more expensive, and that kept older, less efficient cars in user longer, but it has not saved a single life.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A <em>PNAS</em><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.full.pdf" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.full.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1586563001069000&usg=AFQjCNHWQTle2qQXa6MQwYeV1SzjRdvshw"> paper</a> claimed that a common weedkiller turned male frogs feminine, and that caused a special EPA panel to be convened to study its safety</b>. EPA then learned that the paper had been published after hand-picked "editorial review" by an <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">insider at the National Academy of Sciences using a courtesy procedure for a friend</span>.<b> It did not include raw data so results could not be reproduced</b>. When <b>EPA</b> asked Berkeley Professor Tyrone Hayes for his data on frog endocrine disruption, he refused to send it<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. EPA wasted seven years of taxpayer money studying that weedkiller, named atrazine, because members of Congress said they remained concerned.
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<b>The paper was not retracted despite a lack of data. It had simply included pictures and that was enough to get published.</b>

While PNAS changed that 'good old boys network' policy <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hank-campbell-the-corruption-of-peer-review-is-harming-scientific-credibility-1405290747" target="blank">after I exposed it in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>, not much has changed overall. Most papers are still not peer-reviewed, making the life sciences a "house built on sand." While the administration was criticized for embracing a peer-reviewed paper, that was just politics as usual. Realistically, what should government trust if not peer review? HUH?

Except peer review itself is as full of holes now as it was in 2002. Recent <a href="https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1873-3468.13201" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1873-3468.13201">analyses</a> show over <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KXqTAyl4j-jVorFPMD2XRpr76LcIKJ0CVyIvRj0exYQ/edit#gid=0" target="blank">400 papers share similar title, graph, and Western blot layouts</a> and even that obvious scam escaped notice by journals so how often is peer review really happening? Why are pictures without raw data good enough?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s a valid question at a time when lives are at stake, such as in wanting to rush coronavirus treatments into use.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is an obvious way to make fraud and errors easier to detect; <strong>stop accepting papers if the authors do not include raw data</strong>. The public are often surprised when they learn that most papers published in peer-reviewed journals don't include raw data, and that government agencies accept that.There may not be fraud but there is no way for independent reviewers to determine how valid the results are.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet government agencies, which should be leading the nation in calling for evidence-based decision making, are least likely to support transparency.<b> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife </b>service <a href="https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-and-energy/supreme-court-to-review-endangered-species-foia-case" target="blank">is in opposition</a> to public access to its data. A Freedom of Information Act Request I submitted to write a Supreme Cour <em>amicus brief</em> on an endangered species habitat decision came back in the form an Excel file with no headers attached. The numbers were meaningless and told the public nothing about why USFWS decided that the <a href="https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/mississippi_gopher_frog_science_20_beats_center_for_biological_diversity_in_the_supreme_court_80-235542" target="blank">best habitat for the Mississippi Gopher Frog</a> was a private piece of land in Louisiana where the frog had never lived.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-71_omjp.pdf">ruled against the government unanimously</a> in that case. How many other decisions are made based on evidence no one is allowed to see but that don’t get such high-profile attention?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[his name not in doc?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WEYERHAEUSER CO. v. UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 17–71. Argued October 1, 2018—Decided November 27, 2018</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/08/13/if-john-oliver-wants-be-funny-about-science-non-profits-i-can-help-write-better-material-13303"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/08/13/if-john-oliver-wants-be-funny-about-science-non-profits-i-can-help-write-better-material-13303</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If John Oliver Wants To Be Funny About Science Non-Profits, I Can Help Write Better Material</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Oliver Exposes Himself, CNN Uses Us To Debunk EWG, Newsweek And More Media Last Week</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Quit Lit: Academics Discover There's Real Science Outside Universities</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservation Redefined, NPR, And More Media Links Last Week</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Nye Is a Terrible Spokesman for Science</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CrossFit: Uncle Rhabdo Goes To Washington</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> By Hank Campbell — August 13, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I apologize that John Oliver's invisible accordion got cut off. Credit: HBO</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I like comedy news host John Oliver. He was among the top nine funniest guys in the first season of "Community" and he even won an Emmy when Jon Stewart made the jokes of Oliver's colleagues sound hilarious. So I was excited on Saturday when I got to send an email to our Board of Trustees and the staff at the American Council on Science and Health giddy that Oliver, host of HBO's "Last Week Tonight", was going to do a hit piece on us.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maybe it's not a hit piece, maybe he is pro-vaccine, one replied, and is going to applaud our work on that. Or cheer our dismantling Dr. Oz and his supplement empire (along with half his audience) in 2015. Or note how we helped cause smoking in the US to collapse or exposed Natural Resources Defense Council fraud on "60 Minutes" or any number of wins for the American public in our 40 year history.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No chance, I told them, he makes his money creating what he hopes will be viral clips on YouTube by pretending to be sincere and angry while playing an invisible accordion. If he is going to mention us, I wrote, it is going to be that 'science is a corporate conspiracy' stuff that anti-GMO and anti-vaccine groups promote. And then I started writing this article, nearly 36 hours before the episode even aired, sight unseen. Because I already knew what Oliver would say before even corresponding with the producer.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I just hoped it would have been funnier. But he wasn't, as you can see below. Not even a chuckle from the audience when he was talking about "astroturf" groups (those that pretend to be grassroots) put up splashy graphics and our logo and splattered corporate stuff all over it. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instead, if anyone rushes to their computer to investigate us, they will find out the awkward truth about "Last Week Tonight" fact-checking and it will cast into doubt his whole segment. Just 4% of our funding comes from corporations or trade groups. And I am grateful for them. But they are not controlling what 300 scientists and doctors say and couldn't even if they gave us 100%. Our budget is too small to buy anyone off, much less hundreds of volunteer advisors. Watching the segment, I had never even heard of any of the other groups he mentioned, so I wondered why a science education non-profit in existence for 40 years was being lumped in with restaurant owners who don't want to pay minimum wage and some group who thinks the humane society is not humane.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There seemed to be no rational justification for our inclusion so it was perhaps just chance. Or maybe one of the producers has a friend at NRDC or another group who feels fundraising pain when we debunk them and pitched, 'ACSH writes 1,500 science and health articles per year, they are published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and many more and they undermine a lot of our efforts to scare people, even with 1/1000th of our revenue, so please go after them' and the producer did.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But here is the irony - Oliver is British and Brits love irony - the "evidence" their producer sent me the afternoon before it aired was from an actual astroturf organization - U.S. Right To Know, one of the puppet arms created by Organic Consumers Association to attack and harass the science community using any means at their disposal. And they have means. Very deep pockets. And some sources allege their cozy links to Russia Today, the propaganda arm of the Kremlin, are also a sign of something more malevolent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They are literally paid to smear the science community. That's not great company to be keeping, Mr. Oliver.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As I noted, he is British, and the U.K. came up with both the anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements, both of which U.S. Right To Know help, but I do not think he is anti-vaccine. He just attacked them a few weeks ago. Yet they are getting the last laugh. Because he just helped them.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Oliver and his invisible accordion.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so what about corporations? We have been around 40 years, of course during that time we have gotten donations from corporations. We're important, corporations have people internally who want to do positive things with their money. The American Heart Association, Salvation Army, PBS, they all get corporate money too - a lot more than 4%. Oliver is 100% corporate-funded. Are secret sponsors telling his writing room who to attack?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course not. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conspiracy theories fall apart pretty quickly under the gaze of truth. I recognize exaggeration is a vital aspect of comedy, I just wish they had written some - comedy that is. Instead of being funny or accurate, he laboriously implies we are working for Big Soda because in our 40-year history we have gotten $50,000 from Coca-Cola, completely transparent. It made no difference in our work, we have said for decades that sodas are a treat, enjoy them in moderation like you do Starbucks mochas or pizza. Sodas don't "cause" diabetes despite how Mr. Oliver attempted to overturn all of biology claiming they do. Too many calories leading to obesity are the predominant cause of Type 2 diabetes, regardless of where they come from.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And maybe that is why no one laughed - even though the audience got tickets 2 months in advance, so they really wanted to laugh. There were probably diabetics in the audience, including the Type 1 kind who are tired of being the butt of lazy soda jokes, there were probably people who used e-cigarettes to get off smoking. There may have been chemists, biologists, and toxicologists, all who cheer our work standing up for science against activists saying the science community is fraudulent. There may be people who know America reached emissions reductions targets 8 years ahead of what President Obama called for in his Clean Power Plan, because of natural gas - the Big Fracking industry he suggests controls us (yet give us no money.) If lower CO2 emissions are a bad thing to John Oliver, I am happy to be on his Black List. But he needs to take a class in physics. (1)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maybe there was someone in the audience who got botulism because they believe, apparently like John Oliver, that BPA must be harmful because it's a chemical, and they instead bought spoiled food from some anti-science hippie. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's impossible to know, John Oliver obviously does not read science sites, so he won't clarify. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Be part of the solution, John</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Oliver can be part of the solution if he is worried that anti-science groups are under existential threat because they have 1000X our revenue and still get beat up by us when it comes to actual science and medicine. Since he believes funding is how the science community decides what evidence to accept, with a flick of his pen he could take a tiny fraction of his wealth and simply donate to us here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, armed with his seemingly keen knowledge of how I am solely motivated by money despite knowing nothing about me, he can call me up and demand I change what science topics we will cover.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I will sure enjoy that discussion. I truly will. I will be a lot funnier than his segment on us was. And it won't be the first time he phoned one in.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you have Twitter, you can write him and tell him you don't like that he is using anti-science trade groups to undermine trust in science nonprofits. On Facebook, you can comment here. Or you can contact the producer, Charles Wilson, charles.wilson@lastweektonight.com or at (212) 975-8186, and let him you don't like American science being used as his political football. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is what Mr. Charles Wilson, the producer, sent me after spending 5 seconds on Google and finding US Right To Know, and I will address the specific claims he noted one-by-one. In the segment John just says "chemicals" and maybe to him the very word is bad. To science, it is not.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><article id="post-8682" class="post-8682 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-gmo category-our-investigations category-pesticides tag-acsh tag-alex-berezow tag-american-council-on-health-and-science tag-charles-seife tag-daniel-goldstein tag-david-zaruk tag-gil-ross tag-glyphosate tag-hank-campbell tag-ion-publications-llc tag-monsanto tag-sascha-vongehr tag-science-2-0 tag-science-codex tag-scienceblogs" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 10px;"><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Posted on <a href="https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/hank-campbells-maze-of-monsanto-loving-science-blogs/" title="2:17 pm" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-12-06T14:17:15+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">December 6, 2018</time></a></span><span class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> by <span class="author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="url fn n" href="https://usrtk.org/author/stacymalkan/" title="View all posts by Stacy Malkan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Stacy Malkan</a></span></span></font></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Update: As this article was about to publish, Hank Campbell was removed from the <a href="https://www.acsh.org/our-team" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">staff roster</a> of the American Council on Science and Health, the organization he has led as president since July 2015, for unknown reasons. A few days later, he delinked his ring of science blogs (Science 2.0, Science Codex, ScienceBlogs) from ACSH.org.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hank Campbell was until this week president of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a group that claims to be a “pro-science consumer advocacy organization,” but according to <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/acsh-financial-summary.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">leaked internal documents</a> and <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ACSH-email.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">emails released via litigation,</a> ACSH offers its advocacy not to consumers but to <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">chemical, tobacco and pharmaceutical corporate interests</a> (and others) that provide financial backing. For more about ACSH’s <a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-the-american-council-on-science-and-health/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">work as a corporate front group, see our fact sheet</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campbell took over the leadership of <a href="https://www.acsh.org/2015/07/hank-campbell-founder-of-science-2-0-named-acsh-president" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">ACSH in July 2015</a> from acting president Gil Ross, MD, a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/11/paging-dr-ross/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">convicted felon</a> who was jailed for Medicaid fraud. <a href="https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2017/132/911/2017-132911127-0ee0fcc1-9.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Tax records</a> show that Dr. Ross was still on the ACSH payroll as of 2017 with $111,618 in compensation as “former senior director of medicine and public health,” while Campbell received $224,358. Prior to leading ACSH, Campbell <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankcampbell/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">worked in software</a> development, created <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2852294/mediaindex?ref=nm_mv_close" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">what he calls</a> the “world famous Science 2.0 movement,” and wrote a book about the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/the-left-is-anti-science-because-of-hippies-says-new-dumb-book" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">“anti-science” left.</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He runs a ring of questionable science websites, including one that posted anti-Semitic materials <a href="https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/science-2-0-refuses-to-remove-nazi-eugenics-blog-posts-d0ef7e782806" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">that Campbell tried to defend</a>.</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campbell’s network of for-profit, non-profit science blogs</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">NYU Professor <a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/charles-seife/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Charles Seife</a> posted documents in November that shed light on Campbell’s network of science blogs that help promote the American Council on Science and Health. In a Twitter thread he called “<a href="https://twitter.com/i/moments/1063812509231124481" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Mapping a Monsanto-loving octopus,</a>” Seife reported:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campbell’s corporation <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Campbell-ION-2008.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">ION Publications LLC</a> (founded in 2008) owns several science blogging websites, including <a href="https://www.science20.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Science 2.0, </a><a href="https://www.sciencecodex.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Science Codex</a> and others. According to its most recent <a href="https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2017/132/911/2017-132911127-0ee0fcc1-9.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">tax records</a>, ACSH paid ION $60,000 as a “website development service that promotes ACSH.org and increases traffic to the website.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2018, Campbell converted Science 2.0 <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Science-2.0-1023-EZ.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">into a nonprofit</a> and then acquired <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">ScienceBlogs.com</a>. The nonprofit’s officers are Campbell and David Zaruk, a <a href="http://users.skynet.be/fa568043/David/cv/CV.David.Zaruk.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">former chemical industry lobbyist</a> who once worked for the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. The science blogging websites under these umbrellas cross-promote each other and the ACSH.org website.</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seife summed up his <a href="https://twitter.com/cgseife/status/1063135263835217920" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter thread</a>: “this is how a once-admired science blogging site, <a href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBlogs" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">@scienceblogs</a>, was acquired by a complex and, IMO, shady network of for-profits and non-profits helping Monsanto.”</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Helping Monsanto</font></span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ACSH-email.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">documents released via litigation</a>, Monsanto paid the American Council on Science and Health in 2015 to defend glyphosate and help <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/secret-documents-expose-monsantos-war-on-cancer-scientists/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">discredit the scientists</a> of the World Health Organization’s cancer research panel for their report raising cancer concerns about the herbicide.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The documents indicate that Monsanto executives were uncomfortable about working with ACSH but did so anyway because “we don’t have a lot of supporters and can’t afford to lose the few we have,” Daniel Goldstein, Monsanto’s senior science lead, wrote in an email to colleagues. Goldstein provided links to two books, a pamphlet, a pesticide review and 53 articles on the ACSH.org website that he described as “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">EXTREMELY USEFUL</span>” (emphasis Goldstein’s).</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-Semitic material on Science 2.0</font></span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some former writers for ScienceBlogs.com <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshRosenau/status/1016456396160884737" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">refused to grant rights for their work</a> to remain on the site due to its association with Campbell and Science 2.0, and other observers <a href="https://twitter.com/kjhvm/status/1016492407611785216" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">called on writers to do the same</a>. At issue was Science 2.0’s publishing of anti-Semitic material, which <a href="https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/science-2-0-refuses-to-remove-nazi-eugenics-blog-posts-d0ef7e782806" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Campbell tried to explain and defend</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/science-2.0-tweets-2.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="wp-image-8688 alignright" src="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/science-2.0-tweets-2.png" alt="" width="250" height="256" srcset="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/science-2.0-tweets-2.png 695w, https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/science-2.0-tweets-2-292x300.png 292w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; float: right; width: 503.094px; margin-top: 0px; display: block; margin-left: 1.5em; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to the criticism, Campbell removed some posts by the physicist Sascha Vongehr, including one titled, “One Thing Hitler Did Wrong.” The <a href="https://www.science20.com/sascha_vongehr/one_thing_hitler_did_wrong-230881?ref=nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">removal notice</a> describes Vongehr’s work as “satire” that came off as offensive due to the “the author’s imperfect grasp of the English language.” Science 2.0 continues to display <a href="https://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/blog/dr_sascha_vongehrs_science_20_articles_by_topic-79665" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">dozens of articles</a> by Vongehr, including some that contain various anti-Semitic sentiments, such as a post in which Vongehr describes himself as “a Germanic racist” and another titled “Advanced Racism For Dr Duke And Prof Slattery: Why Hate Jews?”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/science-2-0-refuses-to-remove-nazi-eugenics-blog-posts-d0ef7e782806" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Science 2.0 refuses to remove Nazi eugenics blog posts</a></span>, by Keira Havens, Medium (7.9.2018)</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Using USA Today as an outlet</font></span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February 2017, two dozen health, environmental, labor and public interest groups <a href="https://usrtk.org/news-releases/public-interest-groups-to-usa-today-ditch-corporate-front-group-science-columns/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote to the editors of USA Today</a> with concerns that the paper regularly publishes science columns authored by ACSH staff, including Campbell, without disclosing ACSH’s funding from multiple corporate interests. <b>ACSH Vice President of Scientific Affairs Alex Berezow, who co-authored Campbell’s 2012 book, remains on the USA Today Board of Contributors but<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/reporters/boc.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"> his bio </a>there does not disclose his <a href="https://www.acsh.org/our-team" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">leadership staff position</a> at ACSH.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://fair.org/home/newsweek-and-usa-today-need-standards-for-opinion-writers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Newsweek and USA Today Need Standards for Opinion Writers</span>,</a> by Stacy Malkan, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (2.2.2018)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://usrtk.org/news-releases/public-interest-groups-to-usa-today-ditch-corporate-front-group-science-columns/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Public Interest Groups to USA Today: Dump Corporate Front Group Science Columns</span>,</a> letter to editors (2.23.2017)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>My Comment To EPA Recommending Tyrone Hayes Not Be Admitted To The FIFRA SAP</b></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Hank Campbell | August 13th</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> 2019</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 07:15 AM | Print | E-mail</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">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.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The name at number 7 on the list(1) is of particular concern, because he would be serving on an EPA SAP after <b>stating that the EPA SAP once called about a study he got published in PNAS was collaborating with pesticide companies</b>. That, coupled with his reputation as a <b>serial misogynist,</b> would be an unneeded distraction for an advisory body that is supposed to be neutral arbiters of science issues.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For that reason, I recommended he not be among the three selected.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> seems unkind to torment women at Syngenta who were harassed repeatedly by Hayes </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by adding them into an EPA document.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Subject: Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0448</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">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.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> It was not even used in the SAP his work caused to be called because he <b>refused to turn over his data to EPA, </b>claiming that EPA was colluding with pesticide companies. </span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That is a not a constructive voice for an advisory body. 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 Syngenta (now ChemChina) 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.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">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.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Why He Matters</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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<b> Proceedings of the National Academies of Science </b>(http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.full.pdf). It claimed that field level exposures of an herbicide, atrazine, was resulting in the vocal abilities of frogs being warped. <b>As frogs are an indicator species</b>, this low dose result caused a great deal of concern, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">but to scientists "Subtle Effects" is codeword for homeopathy </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">so there was interest in seeing his data and replicating his work.<b> He refused to share his data and his result was not replicated.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As later exposed by the <b>Wall Street Journal</b> (http://online.wsj.com/articles/hank-campbell-the-corruption-of-peer-revi...),</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> his paper was not peer-reviewed</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, 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 (they changed that policy a few weeks after the WSJ story - http:/<b>/blogs</b>.nature.com/news/2014/10/pnas-narrows-pathway-to-publication...). </span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">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.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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 … </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There is no direct scientific information to assess this hypothesis.”</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</span><a href="http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/anne-lindsay-testimony.pdf" style="">http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/anne-lindsay-testimony.pdf</a>]</div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="">
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>EPA is already under constant attack</b> and there is no reason to add a lightning-rod to what should be a neutral SAP by including someone who has a political, cultural, and scientific agenda against the products he would need to investigate.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Respectfully,</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hank Campbell</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Science 2.0</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NOTES:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1) </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1. Jeffrey Bloomquist, Ph.D.: Professor, Entomology and Nematology Department, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. Maria Braga, D.D.S., Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3. Joseph Braun, R.N., M.S.P.H., Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4. Celia Chen, Ph.D.: Director, Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program and Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5. Susan Fisher, Ph.D.: Professor Emerita, Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">7. Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8. Lucille Lange, Ph.D.: Research Psychologist, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9. James Lauderdale, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">14. John Swaddle, Ph.D.: Professor and Chair, Biology Department, College of William&Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">15. Christopher Weis, Ph.D.: Toxicology Liaison, National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2) </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">acsh preZ ny premier</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/27/food-evolution-new-york-city-premiere-proof-science-reason-win-gmo-skeptics/">https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/27/food-evolution-new-york-city-premiere-proof-science-reason-win-gmo-skeptics/</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">per blog morphed into sci 2? </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.hankcampbell.com/</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The surest way to tell if an organization is a politically partisan one is if they make sure to claim flaws in their opposition and ignore the entire swath of the people on their side. Sourcewatch, for example, can't find a single thing wrong with Natural Resources Defense Council, which has $300 million in the bank, whereas they dismiss the organization I run, the American Council on Science and Health, as 'industry shills' because ACSH proudly makes its donors public while NRDC, which generates more money in interest in one day than the Council's budget for the entire year, gets a free pass while never telling anyone where their money really comes from.</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);" /><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);"> runs a biannual piece claiming the Council is a corporate front group but when Greenpeace announced they were hiring </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);"> and </span><em style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BBC</em><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> journalists...nothing. No criticism, no claims that it was just environmental public relations, 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);">Now, no one expects </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);"> (which also does not disclose its donors - good luck even finding a recent Form 990) to be non-partisan but what about the rest of media? Privately, </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/09/greenpeace-hires-investigative-journalists-meiron-jones" target="blank" style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the journalists from the <em>BBC</em> and the <em>New York Times</em></a><span style="line-height: 22.236px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (and </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);">) not rushing to put in resumes are skeptical that this is legitimate....</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hank Campbell, the founder of <em>Science 2.0</em>, is by far the quirkiest and funniest science writer on the Internet. He is beholden neither to political correctness nor to sacred cows. And that's why we love him.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Our Favorite Article:</strong> <a href="http://www.realclearscience.com/2014/02/26/nyt_all_the_pseudoscience_that039s_fit_to_print_257737.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">NYT: All the Pseudoscience That's Fit to Print</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bs</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">I'm the founder of Science 2.0® in 2006 and, since July of 2015, the President of </span><a href="http://acsh.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 20.4px;">the American Council on Science and Health.</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;"> </span><br style="line-height: 20.4px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.4px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Revolutionizing the way scientists Communicate, Participate, Collaborate and Publish is the goal of Science 2.0 ® and it is a work in progress, so if you agree, sign up and help. I've also written for </span><b style="line-height: 20.4px;">USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Wired, </b><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">and many more places. Down below are ways to reach me on social media, like</span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/hank.campbell" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 20.4px;">Facebook</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">, </span><a href="http://twitter.com/HankCampbell" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 20.4px;">Twitter</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;"> and </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/hankcampbell" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 20.4px;">LinkedIn</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">, and you can also send me email through this page.</span><br style="line-height: 20.4px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.4px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">My first book, </span><em style="line-height: 20.4px;"><b>Science Left Behind</b></em><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">, was the #1 bestseller in Amazon environmental policy books. Some reviews:</span><br style="line-height: 20.4px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.4px;" /><b style="line-height: 20.4px;">Wall Street Journal</b><span style="line-height: 20.4px;"> - “usefully revealing how pervasive scientific misinformation is in progressive arguments on organic and genetically modified foods, clean energy, nuclear waste and other matters.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Scientific American</b> - “...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. 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.”</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Forbes</b> - “on many of the most critical issues of our time, the “progressive” perspective is often rooted in out-dated, anti-empirical, junk science paradigms that threaten innovation—and are beginning to unnerve the most scientifically minded thinkers on the left."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Huntington News</b> - "Groundbreaking…If I were teaching journalism, this is a book that I would require my students to read and absorb -- and keep for reference.”</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Science Based Medicine</b> - "pure music to the ears of science-based medicine. 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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wikifluff</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> personality most notable as the founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_2.0" title="Science 2.0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Science 2.0</a>movement and website of the same name in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> On July 7, 2015, Campbell was announced as the new president of the American Council on Science and Health.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; 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background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#Science_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Science articles</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#Television_and_radio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Television and radio</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#Books" style="text-decoration: none; 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line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Science_articles">Science articles</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hank_Campbell&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Science articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Campbell began writing in 2006 and has written over 100 pieces on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_2.0" title="Science 2.0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Science 2.0</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wall Street Journal</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Today" title="USA Today" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">USA Today</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired(website)" title="Wired (website)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wired</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>Primary topics are science, food, energy and medicine.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Television_and_radio">Television and radio</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hank_Campbell&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Television and radio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Campbell has appeared on Fox News Channel and the Blaze Network.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[9]</a></sup> In January 2013 he was an invited guest at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Glenn Beck</a>'s</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Black Sheep Inauguration Ball,</span><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to fête people who Beck believed had debunked Obama administration policies during the president's first term. He is a frequent guest on the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agri-Talk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agri-Talk (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Agri-Talk</a> program hosted by radio host <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaturalNews" title="NaturalNews" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mike Adams</a>.</span></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Books">Books</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hank_Campbell&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Books" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><div class="quotebox" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.8em 1.4em; width: 266.875px; padding: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div class="" style="position: relative;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Visions of the apocalypse are almost exclusively associated with (usually conservative) religious believers. However, progressives have their own cataclysmic vision of the future, one not filled by the wrath of God, but one filled with the wrath of Mother Earth."</font></p></div><div><cite style="font-style: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">– Hank Campbell, <i>Science Left Behind</i>, 2012<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></cite></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campbell has reached #1 in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com" title="Amazon.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Amazon</a></i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Policy" title="Environmental Policy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Environmental Policy</a> category as of 2012: Hardcover Non-Fiction. The Blaze Network staff named</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Non-fiction</font></dt></dl><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="citation book" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><i>Science Left Behind</i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PublicAffairs" title="PublicAffairs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">PublicAffairs</a>. 2012. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1610391641" title="Special:BookSources/978-1610391641" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">978-1610391641</a>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHank+Campbell&rft.btitle=Science+Left+Behind&rft.date=2012&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=978-1610391641&rft.pub=PublicAffairs&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hank_Campbell&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_years">Early years</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hank_Campbell&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early years" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campbell was born in Pennsylvania and resided in Florida and Pennsylvania. He attended Liberty Junior-Senior High School in Liberty, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1983.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Adulthood">Adulthood</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hank_Campbell&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Adulthood" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Campbell began attending Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1983 and graduated in 1987 with a double major in psychology and journalism. He was on a full scholarship and was a Senior Award recipient. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1988, after completing Signal Corps Officer Basic Course in Augusta, Georgia, Campbell returned to Pittsburgh where he became a <b>stockbroker.</b> In 1992, he went to work for Algor, Inc., a developer of mechanical engineering software, as their sales manager. In 1995, Campbell became a sales engineer at Ansoft Corporation, a developer of electrical engineering software, as a pre-IPO employee. In 2004 he left Ansoft to become Vice-President of Sales at Optimal Corporation, a developer of electrical engineering software. In 2006, Campbell left Optimal and founded Science 2.0.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life_2">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hank_Campbell&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Campbell is married with children and lives in Sacramento, Calif.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; 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padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Campbell#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hankcampbell.com/2013/trivia/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Trivia"</a>. 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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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);"> 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">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">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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div>--</div><div><h4 style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 1.5em; line-height: 27.648px; font-weight: normal;">The Progressive War on Science</h4><p class="Author" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1em; word-wrap: break-word; font-stretch: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">A BOOK REVIEW BY KENNETH W. KRAUSE</p><p class="ProseFirstLines" style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;"><span style="display: block; float: left; line-height: 63px; margin: 0px 4px -2px 0px;">L</span>et’s settle this thing once and for all—right here, right now. Who are more anti-scientific—Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or progressives? Conventional wisdom would have us believe—or at least so says science writer Chris Mooney—that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465046762/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0465046762&linkCode=as2&tag=skepticcom-20" title="Order the book from Amazon" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Republicans have waged an unparalleled and all-out war on science</a>.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">Indeed, certain big business interests continue to see basic climate science as an entirely too inconvenient truth. And, yes, some religious leaders will likely always deny the facts of human evolution, abortion, homosexuality, and stem cell procurement and therapeutic cloning. Responsible journalists have documented and exposed these affronts to reason quite thoroughly with appropriate vigor.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">But are progressives really so different? Not according to Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell. In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610391640/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1610391640&linkCode=as2&tag=skepticcom-20" title="Order the book from Amazon" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em>Science Left Behind</em></a>, the authors contend that American media have long bestowed a “free pass” on the political Left (primarily progressives), who are just as likely to “misinterpret, misrepresent, and abuse” science to advance their ideological agendas. In fact, the authors say, progressives are currently waging an “undeclared war on scientific excellence itself.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">They accuse progressives of propagating a number of socially destructive myths, among them the assumptions that everything “natural” is good and everything “unnatural” is bad. Accordingly, homeopathy is just as good as or better than traditional medicine, vaccines actually harm children, and nuclear energy promises unprecedented sickness and loss of life.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">And despite studies showing conventional crops to be equally nutritional and both personally and environmentally safe (never mind vastly less expensive), “organic” foods—whatever that means in a shamefully unregulated industry—are somehow superior products. Ditto for raw, unpasteurized dairy products and juices left untreated for foodborne illnesses.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">Meanwhile, genetically modified foods are decried as both personal and environmental menaces. Never mind that years of testing has yielded no evidence of risk. Forget about the potential of drought-resistant wheat and wilt-resistant bananas to feed starving Africans. And, please, don’t be fooled by researchers’ allegedly noble intentions to use GMOs to combat disease, reduce the use of pesticides, increase agricultural efficiency, and feed starving millions who would otherwise go hungry.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">Ideologues also continue to berate scientists for considering cultured, or <em>in vitro</em> meat. Technophobic and anti-corporate, say Berezow and Campbell, progressives claim that laboratory amino acid production will always be more expensive and resource intensive than the obviously foul and unsophisticated system we use on farms today. They have even threatened legal action and years of red tape to discourage the research itself.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">But the facts of “slow-grown” meat are compelling, to say the least. Gorging themselves on 40 percent of the planet’s cereal grain, livestock also use and despoil about 30 percent of the earth’s surface, 70 percent of its arable land, and eight percent of its water supply. The world’s 1.5 billion livestock are responsible for between 15 and 24 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gasses, and beef ranching accounts for 80 percent of Amazon deforestation. Cattle dump 64 million tons of sewage in the United States alone, and pigs, of course, are no less prolific.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">The antibiotics we use on farm animals contribute mightily to the emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria. And what are the most common causes of food-born diseases in the U.S., EU, and Canada? That’s right—contaminated meats and animal products. In rather stark contrast, meat grown in culture doesn’t poop, burp, fart, eat, overgraze, drink, bleed, or scream in agony—and it’s a great deal less likely to poison or infect us.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">Unsurprisingly, progressives have corrupted the social sciences too, perhaps to the point of permanent reputational taint among both the general public and the scientific community. Recall, for example, the oppressive and unscholarly manner in which Harvard president Lawrence Summers was vilified in 2005 for merely suggesting that, one, men and women might have distinguishable natural abilities related to math and science, and, two, that personal preference rather than discrimination might account for female “underrepresentation” in high-end STEM careers.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">“Summers learned the hard way,” the authors say, “that the feel-good fallacies of progressive thought are stronger than the values of free inquiry and the primacy of the scientific method.” Indeed, where was the intellectual debate before Summers’ resignation in 2006? Is it really so improbable that different genders evolved or learned different talents? Or is it more likely, perhaps, that academics have been bullied into the “gender equality” camp with threats of being branded as sexist?</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">Berezow and Campbell refer to a “mountain of scientific data” that refutes the unlikely notion of biological gender equality. First, controlling for body size, men’s brains are 100 grams heavier than women’s brains, which results in a 3.6-point intelligence difference. Second, although women have more white matter, men possess more gray matter, which is related to information processing. The jury is still out on the issue of aptitude, the authors admit, but progressives seem to want to “cut science out” of the deliberations altogether.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">And the problem appears to reemerge when the question centers more specifically on careers in science. Though progressives continue to “blame sexist men or an oppressive society” for female “underrepresentation” in the high-end STEM fields, say the authors, it has become “increasingly clear” that biology strongly influences our personal preferences.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;"><span style="line-height: 27.648px;">
In agreement with their previous analyses, Ceci and Williams surmised instead that the gender gap results primarily from women’s career preferences and fertility and lifestyle choices. In other words, adolescent girls tend to gravitate toward careers focusing on people as opposed to things, and female Ph.D.s interested in childrearing are less likely to apply for or maintain tenure track positions. Incidentally, as a secondary explanation, the duo pointed to evidence for upper tail disparities in cognitive ability.</span>Cornell University researchers Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams recently published a hard-hitting and no doubt divisive paper addressing this very issue. After reviewing 20 years of data, Ceci and Williams—married with three daughters of their own—decided that the evidence of discrimination against women in math-intensive fields is “aberrant, of small magnitude” and “superseded by larger, more sophisticated analyses showing no bias, or occasionally, bias in favor of women.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">Richard Lippa, a psychologist at California State University, Fullerton, has recently observed that “[c]ontemporary gender researchers, particularly those who adopt social constructionist and feminist ideologies, often reject the notion that biologic factors directly cause gender differences.” Feminist beliefs are so contrary to mainstream biology, Berezow and Campbell concur, “it is fair to compare their anti-science rhetoric to that of evolution-denying creationists.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">So let’s return to our question—who are more anti-science, conservatives or progressives? Frankly, Berezow and Campbell go too far in their criticisms and provide too little evidence for their claim that all Lefties are “social authoritarians” bent on an everlasting “culture war.”</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">The fact is that <em>all</em> ideologues are impediments to science, whether libertarians, religious zealots, and free-market fundamentalists on the one hand, or environmentalists, feminists, and social engineers on the other. Science—indeed, truth generally—is served mostly by those who conceive of themselves as individuals first and group members second (if at all). But seldom if ever are its ends advanced by committed disciples to any idea or cause.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 27.648px;">The authors are entirely correct, however, in illuminating a salient distinction between politics and science. The former consists of “gotcha” moments and scoring points against the other team. The latter is about proceeding openly and vigorously wherever the data lead, and allowing others the same courtesy. <img src="http://www.skeptic.com/images/S-glyph.gif" class="S-glyph" alt="END" width="12" height="12" style="height: 12px; display: inline; width: 12px;" /></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.5px;">In this week’s </span><span style="line-height: 16.5px;">eSkeptic</span><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.5px;">, Kenneth W. Krause reviews </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610391640/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1610391640&linkCode=as2&tag=skepticcom-20" title="Order the book from Amazon" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.5px;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left</span></a><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.5px;">, by Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell (NY: Public Affairs, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-61039-164-1). Kenneth W. Krause is a contributing editor and “Science Watch” columnist for the </span><span style="line-height: 16.5px;">Skeptical Inquirer</span><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.5px;">.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hank Campbell, founder of the groundbreaking movement known as <a href="http://www.science20.com/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Science 2.0</a> as well as the heavily-visited website which bears its name, has been chosen as the new president of the <a href="http://www.acsh.org/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">American Council on Science and Health</a>.</font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Since its inception in 1978, ACSH has been a trusted guide for the public on complex issues, and today that mission is more vital than ever,” said Campbell. “I look forward to guiding this outstanding organization to even greater heights.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2006, Campbell began using web-based technology and his prescient site to deliver sound, science-based health information directly to the public.</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While he will bring his energetic and innovative approach to his new position, Campbell, 49, will also continue the course charted by the late <b>Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, the Council’s longtime president, trailblazer and co-founder, who passed away in Sept. 2014 at the age of 70.</b></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">
“In many ways,” Campbell continued, “Science 2.0 was inspired by the Council. Scientists have always known that anti-science groups use clever public relations to drive a wedge between the public and their work. So, in turn, they’ve smartly embraced the ability to communicate research directly to the consumer. ACSH provides them with a world-class opportunity to increase public understanding of science and health even more.”</span>“Dr. Whelan was a giant on the public health scene, and her body of work advocating evidence-based decision-making – as well as her opposition to efforts promoting fear and doubt that undermine science – are part of our cultural DNA,” said Campbell. “Her energy and enthusiasm lives on with our core of experts. Putting people’s health needs first is the primary ideal for the panel of scientists and doctors we rely on, who help to ensure the public has a place to go for impartial, fact-based guidance.</font></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hank Campbell’s Bio</font></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Founder of Science 2.0, the largest independent science writing site in the U.S., with more than 15 million annual visitors</font></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prominent executive at Optimal Corp. & Ansoft Corp., two physics software companies</font></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Co-author of <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Science Left Behind</i>, an Amazon #1 Bestseller among environmental policy books</font></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former U.S. Army officer (1987-95), commissioned as Second Lieutenant</font></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Duquesne University graduate (1987)</font></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pennsylvania native; married, father of two</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Society is not a laboratory'</font></b></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writing in <i>The Washington Post</i>, columnist Charles Lane <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-should-cut-funding-for-political-science-research/2012/06/04/gJQAuAJMEV_story.html" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">argues that the foundation shouldn't fund any social science</a> at all. Why? Because even "though quantitative methods may rule economics, political science and psychology, these disciplines can never achieve the objectivity of the natural sciences. … Society is not a laboratory."</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is largely correct. Though the social sciences are important, informative and interesting, they often fail to meet the <a href="http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2012/05/30/what_separates_science_from_non-science_106278.html" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">five characteristics</a> of rigorous science: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and predictability/testability. These characteristics are linked by a unifying theme -- a true theory, in the scientific sense.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For biology, that is evolution; for chemistry, atomic theory; for physics, the laws of motion.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientifically rigorous?</font></b></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not all studies within the hard sciences measure up. The majority of studies do, though. However, while there are notable exceptions, a substantial proportion of studies in the social sciences are not considered scientifically rigorous because the human experience is highly subjective and changeable across culture and time.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Second, the politics. It's not a secret that academia, particularly the humanities, skews heavily left.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A recent survey by economics professor Daniel Klein revealed that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by a whopping 30-to-1 ratio in anthropology; 28-to-1 in sociology; nearly 10-to-1 in history; and nearly 7-to-1 in political science. In economics, which is widely considered "conservative" by other social fields, Republicans are merely outnumbered 3-to-1.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As psychology professor <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Jonathan+Haidt" title="More news, photos about Jonathan Haidt" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Haidt</a>, the liberal-turned-centrist would say, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html?_r=0" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity</a>." Yet, some progressives in academia and the news media justify it by referring to Democrats as "pro-science" and the Republicans as "anti-science," rather than addressing the obvious lack of political tolerance in the modern world of universities. That partisanship has brought with it a willingness to discard science that refutes pet ideological causes appealing to the left. Thus, attempts to legitimize alternative medicine, to demand labels for genetically modified food and to ban plastic bags have taken hold.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now armed with a political supermajority, academics have sought to redefine science itself. But there is a danger in redefining, or relaxing the rules of, science.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike in the social fields, in science, not all truth is created equal. We are far more certain about Newtonian mechanics and the effectiveness of vaccines than we are about the <a href="http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2010/12/09/recommendation-sexist" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">cultural roots of sexism</a> or the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/05/27/sen-coburn-targets-shrimp-on-treadmill-other-nsf-spending/" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">societal impact of playing</a><i>Farmville</i>. Yet the social sciences insist both of the latter are legitimate recipients of taxpayer funding.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">America has a wall of separation between church and state. Similarly, we also need to maintain a wall separating science from sociology, even if some social fields use science as a proper name.</font></p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Alex Berezow is the editor of</i><a href="http://realclearscience.com/" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">RealClearScience</a>. <i>Hank Campbell is the founder of</i><a href="http://www.science20.com/" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Science 2.0</a><i>. They are authors of the new book</i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610391640/" target="popup729" style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Science Left Behind.</a></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">acsh do not go back far?p 1 of 2</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/quit-lit-academics-discover-theres-real-science-outside-universities/" title="Permalink to Quit Lit: Academics Discover There’s Real Science Outside Universities" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Quit Lit: Academics Discover There’s Real Science Outside Universities</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/quit-lit-academics-discover-theres-real-science-outside-universities/" title="5:37 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">September 14, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Academics, like everyone in every job, want a six-figure income and they want no criticism and they want to idolized by their customers. Well, good luck getting that. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/quit-lit-academics-discover-theres-real-science-outside-universities/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">News and Views</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/let-them-eat-kale-bittman-bids-farewell-to-the-new-york-times/" title="Permalink to Let Them Eat Kale: Bittman Bids Farewell to The New York Times" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let Them Eat Kale: Bittman Bids Farewell to The New York Times</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/let-them-eat-kale-bittman-bids-farewell-to-the-new-york-times/" title="7:29 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">September 14, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mark Bittman, formerly a food writer and vegan advocate for The New York Times, recently decided to show the world he’s more than just talk, by joining a food start-up. We wish him well in his new career, mainly because once there his views on food will likely be heard by far fewer consumers. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/let-them-eat-kale-bittman-bids-farewell-to-the-new-york-times/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/opinion/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Opinion</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/would-the-last-naturopath-to-exit-please-turn-out-the-lights/" title="Permalink to Would The Last Naturopath To Exit Please Turn Out The Lights?" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Would The Last Naturopath To Exit Please Turn Out The Lights?</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/would-the-last-naturopath-to-exit-please-turn-out-the-lights/" title="12:28 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">September 13, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s rare to see an alternative medicine proponent leave and join the science community but it happens. Britt Hermes, a homeopath and alternative medicine proponent, did just that. She even has a blog where she discuss the horrors of her former industry. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/would-the-last-naturopath-to-exit-please-turn-out-the-lights/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/harm-reduction/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Harm Reduction</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/naturopathic/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">naturopathic</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/one-year-on-a-tribute-to-dr-beth-whelan/" title="Permalink to One Year On, A Tribute To Dr. Beth Whelan" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One Year On, A Tribute To Dr. Beth Whelan</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/one-year-on-a-tribute-to-dr-beth-whelan/" title="6:29 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">September 11, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One year ago, a giant on the public health outreach scene passed away. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/one-year-on-a-tribute-to-dr-beth-whelan/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">News and Views</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/expensive-drugs-are-fine-but-americans-dislike-a-bad-value/" title="Permalink to Expensive Drugs Are Fine, But Americans Dislike A Bad Value" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Expensive Drugs Are Fine, But Americans Dislike A Bad Value</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/expensive-drugs-are-fine-but-americans-dislike-a-bad-value/" title="10:18 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">September 5, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We want drugs to get better yet we don’t want them to be just for the rich. Health care, in much of modern America, is a right rather than a luxury so almost half of the country seems to be fine with overpaying for a phone, content with the knowledge … <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/expensive-drugs-are-fine-but-americans-dislike-a-bad-value/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/medical-and-pharma/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Medicine and Pharmaceuticals</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/aspartame-believe-science-or-some-crazy-critic/" title="Permalink to Aspartame: Believe Science, Or A Homeopathic Huckster?" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Aspartame: Believe Science, Or A Homeopathic Huckster?</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/aspartame-believe-science-or-some-crazy-critic/" title="3:51 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">September 3, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Methanol sounds scary but fear evaporates quickly when people find that even if you consume nothing but aspartame all day, you will get about half the methanol that’s in a banana. Yet charlatans continue to claim artificial sweeteners will give you cancer. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/09/aspartame-believe-science-or-some-crazy-critic/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/opinion/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Opinion</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/hoosiers-homework-how-to-be-student-salt-smugglers/" title="Permalink to Hoosiers’ Homework: How to Be Student Salt Smugglers" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hoosiers’ Homework: How to Be Student Salt Smugglers</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/hoosiers-homework-how-to-be-student-salt-smugglers/" title="3:19 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 27, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It appears that some Indiana school children may be forced to create a secret smuggling web. Does it involve drugs, or other contraband? No. They’re doing it just to get through their midday meal. Do we want to raise a generation of students who worry they can’t even trust their own lunch? <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/hoosiers-homework-how-to-be-student-salt-smugglers/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/another-plos-controversy-ends-but-the-bigger-problem-remains/" title="Permalink to Another PLOS Controversy Ends – But The Bigger Problem Remains" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another PLOS Controversy Ends – But The Bigger Problem Remains</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/another-plos-controversy-ends-but-the-bigger-problem-remains/" title="7:42 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 22, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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. It is not just the anti-GMO and anti-vaccine contingent, everyone does it… <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/another-plos-controversy-ends-but-the-bigger-problem-remains/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/opinion/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Opinion</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/plos/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PLOS</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/freeing-up-money-for-science-without-funding-waste/" title="Permalink to Freeing Up Money For Science, Without Funding Waste" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Freeing Up Money For Science, Without Funding Waste</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/freeing-up-money-for-science-without-funding-waste/" title="3:40 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 20, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congress has decided to boost funding for the National Institutes of Health by $9.3 billion over five years, and that is welcome news to researchers. But there are two ways we could have prevented life sciences researchers from feeling like they were being disrespected by the current White House administration.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/freeing-up-money-for-science-without-funding-waste/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/public-policy/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Public Policy</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/epa-earned-its-animas-river-backlash-because-it-earned-a-reputation-for-abuse/" title="Permalink to EPA Earned Its Animas River Backlash – Because It Earned A Reputation For Abuse" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EPA Earned Its Animas River Backlash – Because It Earned A Reputation For Abuse</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/epa-earned-its-animas-river-backlash-because-it-earned-a-reputation-for-abuse/" title="7:29 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 19, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mainstream media have been stressing the term “accident” when it comes to the EPA violating the Clean Water Act and being incompetent about the toxic wastewater gushing out of a 19th century abandoned mine, something media never rationalize about corporations. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/epa-earned-its-animas-river-backlash-because-it-earned-a-reputation-for-abuse/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/chemicals-and-environment/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Chemicals and Environment</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/epa/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">EPA</a> |</font></div></div><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">p2</font></div><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic;"><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/clean-energy-is-a-political-juggernaut-it-can-leave-wacky-environmentalists-behind/" title="Permalink to Clean Energy Is A Political Juggernaut – It Can Leave Wacky Environmentalists Behind" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clean Energy Is A Political Juggernaut – It Can Leave Wacky Environmentalists Behind</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/clean-energy-is-a-political-juggernaut-it-can-leave-wacky-environmentalists-behind/" title="9:04 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 17, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservatives want poor people to have cheap energy but no one is against cleaner energy and less pollution<a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/clean-energy-is-a-political-juggernaut-it-can-leave-wacky-environmentalists-behind/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/public-policy/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Public Policy</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/energy/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">energy</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/foia-as-a-weapon/" title="Permalink to FOIA as a weapon" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FOIA as a weapon</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/foia-as-a-weapon/" title="10:33 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 16, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When Freedom of Information Act requests were being over-used by critics of climate science, the environmental community objected. What was little discussed was that they had been doing the same thing for decades. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/foia-as-a-weapon/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/opinion/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Opinion</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/blogging/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">blogging</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/yes-not-all-hamburger-meat-is-from-the-same-cow/" title="Permalink to Yes, not all hamburger meat is from the same cow" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yes, not all hamburger meat is from the same cow</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/yes-not-all-hamburger-meat-is-from-the-same-cow/" title="10:32 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 6, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In our modern industrialized food society, it’s easy to lose awareness of how food is made. In the 19th century, when food was just becoming industrialized, it was fascinating to city dwellers. Factories gave tours, but it was certainly not without shock to the public who witnessed the process. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/yes-not-all-hamburger-meat-is-from-the-same-cow/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/television-doctors-under-fire-again/" title="Permalink to Television doctors under fire again" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Television doctors under fire again</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/television-doctors-under-fire-again/" title="10:31 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 1, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another group of serious doctors calls for the television kind to be regulated. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/08/television-doctors-under-fire-again/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/opinion/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Opinion</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/dr-oz/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dr. Oz</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/the-doctors/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Doctors</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/bean-box-defies-organic-hype-brings-truth-about-coffee/" title="Permalink to Bean Box defies organic hype, brings truth about coffee" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bean Box defies organic hype, brings truth about coffee</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/bean-box-defies-organic-hype-brings-truth-about-coffee/" title="8:59 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">July 25, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To people in science, organic coffee always seemed a little silly, because you don’t eat coffee beans any more than you eat the shell of a pineapple, and by the time you do get to the consumable part, whether or not the toxic pesticide on the plant was an organic one or a synthetic one has ceased to be relevant. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/bean-box-defies-organic-hype-brings-truth-about-coffee/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/coffee/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">coffee</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/organic/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">organic</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/you-say-sugar-whole-foods-says-evaporated-cane-juice-and-charges-more/" title="Permalink to You Say Sugar – Whole Foods Says ‘Evaporated Cane Juice’ And Charges More" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You Say Sugar – Whole Foods Says ‘Evaporated Cane Juice’ And Charges More</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/you-say-sugar-whole-foods-says-evaporated-cane-juice-and-charges-more/" title="9:46 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">July 20, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To a scientist, sugar is sugar.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To Whole Foods marketing experts, some sugars are superior to others (in the minds of their customers), so if they want to sell people “evaporated cane juice” in a cookie — crystallized sugar from sugar cane, which is sugar — well, they can. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/you-say-sugar-whole-foods-says-evaporated-cane-juice-and-charges-more/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/health-halo/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">health halo</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/sugar/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">sugar</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/whole-foods/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">whole foods</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/nrdc-under-fire-for-violating-its-non-profit-status/" title="Permalink to NRDC under fire for violating its non-profit status" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NRDC under fire for violating its non-profit status</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/nrdc-under-fire-for-violating-its-non-profit-status/" title="11:24 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">July 13, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a giant among anti-science groups, a $100 million per year juggernaut that is able to bully companies into writing checks in return for calling off the invective among the many satellite organizations in its orbit.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans in the Senate seem to have finally had enough.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The NRDC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit prohibited from political activity but they refuse to disclose their donors so there has long been a belief that their dislike for one political party is not based on genuine concern about the public. Due to their giant coffers, they are able to wield an outsized level of mindshare amo <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/nrdc-under-fire-for-violating-its-non-profit-status/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/news-and-views/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">News and Views</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/no-bpa-is-not-altering-the-genes-in-your-placenta/" title="Permalink to No, BPA is not altering the genes in your placenta" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No, BPA is not altering the genes in your placenta</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/no-bpa-is-not-altering-the-genes-in-your-placenta/" title="7:29 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">July 13, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environmentalists want you to worry that plastic is causing the uterus of pregnant women to change. Here is the actual science. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/no-bpa-is-not-altering-the-genes-in-your-placenta/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/chemicals-and-environment/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Chemicals and Environment</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/bpa/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">BPA</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/the-stethoscope-is-about-to-celebrate-its-200th-birthday-and-its-about-to-say-goodbye/" title="Permalink to The stethoscope is about to celebrate its 200th birthday – and it’s about to say goodbye" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The stethoscope is about to celebrate its 200th birthday – and it’s about to say goodbye</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/the-stethoscope-is-about-to-celebrate-its-200th-birthday-and-its-about-to-say-goodbye/" title="7:15 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">July 9, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1816 the ubiquitous stethoscope, in modern times a symbol of medicine itself, made its first appearance – but it may be coming close to extinction. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/the-stethoscope-is-about-to-celebrate-its-200th-birthday-and-its-about-to-say-goodbye/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/medical-and-pharma/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Medicine and Pharmaceuticals</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/medical-history/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">medical history</a> |</font></div><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/not-skimming-on-the-science-new-milk-has-lower-fat-reduces-emissions/" title="Permalink to Not Skimming On The Science: New Milk Has Lower Fat, Reduces Emissions" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not Skimming On The Science: New Milk Has Lower Fat, Reduces Emissions</font></a></h2><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/not-skimming-on-the-science-new-milk-has-lower-fat-reduces-emissions/" title="10:05 am" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">July 5, 2015</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/hankcampbell/" title="View all posts by Hank Campbell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hank Campbell</a></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With low-fat milk, lactose-free substitutes and a firm place in culture and nutrition, it wouldn’t seem like dairy products need a new science approach, but there are still things to optimize. <a href="http://acsh.org/2015/07/not-skimming-on-the-science-new-milk-has-lower-fat-reduces-emissions/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">→</span></a></font></p><div class="articleinfos" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted in <a href="http://acsh.org/category/nutrition-and-lifestyle/" rel="category tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nutrition and Lifestyle</a> | Tagged <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/dairy/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">dairy</a>, <a href="http://acsh.org/tag/saturated-fats/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">saturated fats</a> |</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div>