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</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="submitted-head" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height: 40px;"><span class="by-date" style="box-sizing: border-box;">February 12, 2020</span></div><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="lead m-bot-45" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 45px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">The<b> scientific publishing industry is thoroughly dishonest and corrupt, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the journal Science are now also a part of the problem.</b> Here's a disturbing case in point.</p></span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;"> journal <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> publishes a weekly column in which scientists write about various challenges they have faced in their careers. I submitted my story about how I became a junk science debunker, and it was initially accepted for publication.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">Yet, after two months of work and nine revisions, the column (which now can be read <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/02/12/how-i-became-junk-science-debunker-14568" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">here</a>) was spiked at the last minute by senior editor Tim Appenzeller. Mr. Appenzeller, who holds a bachelor's degree in English and has no formal training in science, heads up the news division at the journal. I was told that ACSH is controversial "because it has accepted money from corporations," and therefore, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> refused to publish my article. (See story <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/02/12/editors-journal-science-call-me-corporate-shill-14566" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">here</a>.)</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">Of course, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> publishes papers from industry scientists and gleefully begs corporations to send them money, so I had a few questions of my own that I submitted to Mr. Appenzeller:</p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 11px 22px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">1) The Science Careers page has published columns by scientists who work or worked for industry, one of them rather prominently titled, "Three lessons from industry that I’m taking back to academia." So, your stated reason to reject my article ("corporate money") is false. What's the real reason for the rejection? Is it political?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">2) The journal Science itself happily accepts corporate donations in the form of advertising revenue. Please explain this contradiction.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">3) Do you believe that corporate science is inherently untrustworthy? If so, then why does Science publish papers written by industry co-authors?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">4) Do you believe that ACSH is dishonest or untrustworthy? Do you believe that I am dishonest or untrustworthy? If so, why?</p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">5) During the editing process -- 9 revisions, to be precise -- [the associate editor] added an anti-conservative insult to my career story, which I asked her to remove. Are anti-conservative sympathies part of the culture at Science and AAAS?</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">To my surprise, he answered my email. But, as I suspected, he was neither honest nor did he answer the hardest questions, specifically #1 and #2. What follows is his response, with emphasis and footnotes added. Following his response is my commentary. </p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 11px 22px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">Dear Dr. Berezow,</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">I understand your annoyance. I’m sorry we (Katie and I) put you through those revisions before deciding against publishing your column. The reasons are as she said: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">ACSH has been the focus of controversy, and your association with it would undoubtedly have led to heated discussions if we had published the column. We’re not afraid of controversy (1)</strong>, as you might know from the stories that appear in Science’s news section. But the Working Life column is about personal career journeys, and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">your message might well have been lost in the commotion about ACSH (2)</strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">allegations (on which we have no position) that some of its positions reflect the interests of its funders. (3)</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">So no, this has nothing to do with politics or anti-conservative bias. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science is as concerned about junk science as you are</strong>; we’ve published many stories about the damage done by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">vaccine skeptics and climate deniers,</span> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">our coverage has emphasized that many concerns raised by </strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">anti-GMO activists </strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">are not based on available evidence (4).</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">Nor do we have any reason to think that you are untrustworthy, or that industry-funded science is automatically suspect.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">The “anti-conservative insult” you refer to was an editing mistake, which you had a chance to correct during revision. We would not intentionally introduce bias into anyone’s article.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">Best regards</p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Tim</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">My commentary:</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">(1) They are not afraid of controversy, unless that controversy involves "corporations." Then, they hide.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">(2) Because my message might have been lost in a controversy that he fabricated, it's better not to publish it at all. Makes sense.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">(3) The allegations made about my organization are complete lies and distortions. We are unabashedly pro-vaccine, pro-GMO, pro-medicine, and pro-technology. We oppose junk science, alternative medicine, and snake oil salesmen. In short, <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/06/18/acsh-isnt-industry-friendly-were-science-friendly-14103" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">we are pro-science, not pro-industry</a>. (We believe all science is great, be it from academia, industry, or government.) If <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> is incapable of having a position on that, then the journal is cowardly and should be closed down, and Mr. Appenzeller should be pulling espresso shots at a drive-through coffee stand. Let's finally put that English degree to its intended use.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">(4) Right, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> cares about junk science and GMOs. That's why <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AAAS gave an <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/02/05/aaas-runs-dishonest-glyphosate-story-then-deletes-it-politics-blame-13786" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">award to two anti-glyphosate conspiracy theorists</a>. (The award was "reassessed" after a massive outcry from scientists on Twitter.)</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">There are two more important points to add:</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">First, science journalists claim to want transparency. I have always been fully transparent about who I am and what I do. Yet, those of us who are transparent are accused of having a conflict of interest. That's non-sensical.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">Second, it should be noted that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> has no problem publishing blatant conflicts of interest. For instance, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> once published an article by a consultant who makes money by consulting for the government on chemical regulations.</span> The topic of his article? The need for more chemical regulations. That's a smack-you-in-the-face obvious example of a self-dealing financial conflict of interest. <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/09/04/stinking-pathetic-double-standard-heart-scientific-journals-13377" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> didn't even bother to mention it</a>.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">What Do Other Scientists Think?</strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">I asked some of my friends in science communication what they thought of Mr. Appenzeller's response. The best one goes to a PhD geneticist who asked for anonymity because of his penchant for unvarnished, undiplomatic truth-telling:</p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 11px 22px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">"That's the most chickensh ludicrous dollop of fetid apologetics I've ever seen."</p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Big points for creativity. Here are how others responded: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[cami ryan</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and 2]</span></p></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/09/27/something-rotten-journal-public-health-policy-13455" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">scientific publishing industry is thoroughly corrupt</a>, and AAAS and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> are now also a part of the problem. If and when all government-funded research is mandated to be released free of charge upon publication, journals like <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em> may go out of business. Good riddance.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>=</b></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://progressive.org/magazine/how-the-biotech-industry-cultivates-positive-media/</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">july 2017</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">flaking for gmo's</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p class="lead" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On April 2016, Monica Eng of WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR station, published a <a href="https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/why-didnt-an-illinois-professor-have-to-disclose-gmo-funding" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">critical story</a> revealing that the agrichemical giant Monsanto had quietly paid a professor at the University of Illinois to travel, write, and speak about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and even to lobby federal officials to halt further GMO regulation. In a grueling, year-long reporting project, Eng uncovered <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2303693-bruce-chassyuofillinoisdocs.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">documents</a> proving that Monsanto made the payments to University of Illinois professor <b>Bruce Chassy</b>, and that he <a href="https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/why-didnt-an-illinois-professor-have-to-disclose-gmo-funding" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">advised Monsanto</a> to deposit money in the university’s foundation, where records are shielded from public disclosure.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
What she didn’t expect was the massive blowback: The university accused her of being an activist, not a journalist, and she was hounded by Twitter trolls who jumped on her story and waged a campaign to discredit her personally.</span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I knew that this would be a big story,” Eng says.</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“I’ve worked as a professional journalist in Chicago for more than three decades,” Eng says. “I’ve uncovered questionable activity in government groups, nonprofits, and private companies. But I don’t think I have ever seen a group so intent on trying to personally attack the journalist covering the issue</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eng’s experience is just one example of a strategy first invented by Big Tobacco to smear critics, spin reporters, and tamp down information that could damage the industry’s image.</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.6em 2.6em 1em 0px; padding: 1.6em 2em 1.6em 0px; order: 0; border-top: 3px solid rgb(57, 130, 106); border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(57, 130, 106); width: 385.922px; float: left;"><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 38.22px; order: 0; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I don’t think I have ever seen a group so intent on trying to personally attack the journalist covering the issue.”</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 38.22px; order: 0; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—Monica Eng</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In recent months, media outlets have reported on a disturbing trend of corporate-sponsored journalism</b>. <em style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">The British Medical Journal</em> <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1638" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">exposed</a> a multiyear campaign by Coca-Cola to influence reporters covering obesity by secretly funding journalism conferences at the University of Colorado. The watchdog group Health News Review <a href="https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/04/journalism-ethics-questions-swirl-around-u-of-kansas-opioid-survey-pharma-funding/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">reported</a> that two journalism professors at the University of Kansas asked more than 1,100 health-care reporters about their views on opioids in a survey that was funded, in part, by the <a href="https://www.practicalbioethics.org/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Center for Practical Bioethics</a>, a group the <a href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/baucus-grassley-seek-answers-about-opioid-manufacturers-ties-to-medical-groups" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">U.S. Senate Finance Committee investigated</a> for its ties to opioid manufacturers.</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The biotech industry is particularly focused on taming controversies surrounding GMOs and the chemicals that are used on genetically modified crops, including Monsanto’s weedkiller glyphosate. The <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/glyphosate-now-most-used-agricultural-chemical-ever-422419" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">world’s most widely used herbicide</a>, glyphosate is critical for the successful cultivation of GMO corn and soybeans. A recent <a href="https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-016-0070-0" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">study</a> found that the chemical’s use by farmers has jumped fifteen-fold since 1996. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has <a href="https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">identified</a> glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In January, a judge <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-roundup-cancer-20170127-story.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">overruled</a> Monsanto’s objections, and the state of California will add a label with <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">a cancer warning</a> to the popular glyphosate-based weed killer RoundUp.</b> The Inspector General for the Environmental Protection Agency just <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">announced</a> he is investigating whether a former high-ranking EPA official colluded with Monsanto. In addition to filing lawsuits and hiring lobbyists, the chemical industry is deploying industry-allied scientists and using pro-GMO websites to discredit journalists covering glyphosate and GMOs.</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">New York Times</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> investigative reporter Danny Hakim has dealt with online abuse in recent months for writing </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-falls-short.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">articles</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> critical of the agrichemical industry. Google Hakim’s name and you find little mention of seventeen years at the </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">Times,</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> during which time he won a</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Pulitzer Prize. Instead, you’ll find articles criticizing his reporting at sites like the American Council on Science and Health (<a href="http://acsh.org/news/2017/03/15/glyphosate-nyts-danny-hakim-lying-you-11001" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">“Glyphosate: NYT’s Danny Hakim Is Lying to You”</a>) and the Genetic Literacy Project</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><a href="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/10/31/danny-hakims-new-york-times-gmo-expose-misleads/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">“Why Danny Hakim’s New York Times GMO exposé misleads”</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">).</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The industry’s PR campaign to reframe the GMO debate and intimidate journalists through harassment and name-calling has been remarkably successful in my view,” says food author and journalism professor Michael Pollan. “I think this is partly a function of the political and public relations naiveté of many of my fellow science writers.”</font></p><hr style="background-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; order: 0; clear: both; height: 1px; border: 0px; max-width: 80%; margin: 1.2em auto; opacity: 0;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One tactic industry allies employ to discredit questions about GMOs is to narrow the discussion to food safety. Pro-GMO scientists and writers <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/democrats-reject-science-of-gmo/article/2003176" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">mock</a> experts and critics, by portraying them as loonies who think eating a bag of corn chips is akin to ingesting a bottle of arsenic. But this is a misleading line of attack, since GMO concerns are wide-ranging, including how well they are tested for safety, their <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-monsanto-deal-doubts-about-the-gmo-revolution-1473880429" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">impact on agriculture</a> and the ecosystem, and the toxicity of glyphosate.</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.6em 2.6em 1em 0px; padding: 1.6em 2em 1.6em 0px; order: 0; border-top: 3px solid rgb(57, 130, 106); border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(57, 130, 106); width: 385.922px; float: left;"><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 38.22px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The industry’s PR campaign to reframe the GMO debate and intimidate journalists through harassment and name-calling has been remarkably successful in my view...”</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 38.22px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—Michael Pollan.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most of all, there is legitimate debate about whether industry should be engineering a crop that requires the heavy use of pesticides. Industry and its allies attempt to discredit such questions by comparing GMO critics to climate denialists and vaccine safety denialists.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hints of the biotech industry’s media tactics have leaked from court cases filed against Monsanto alleging glyphosate causes cancer. Several filings reference internal Monsanto documents that describe the company’s social media strategy called “<a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGomotion.pdf" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Let Nothing Go</a>”—a program in which individuals who appear to have no connection to the industry rapidly respond to negative social media posts regarding Monsanto, GMOs, and agrichemicals.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGomotion.pdf" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Lawyers in one case told a judge that</a> documents show Monsanto funnels money to the Genetic Literacy Project and the American Council on Science and Health in order to “shame scientists and highlight information helpful to Monsanto and other chemic</b>al producers.”</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Industry has also secretly funded a series of <a href="http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/education/gsbs/documents/2-12-015BLPProspectus_000.doc" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">conferences</a> to train scientists and journalists to frame the debate over GMOs and the toxicity of glyphosate. The most widely attended of these events happened in 2014 at the University of Florida and in 2015 at University of California-Davis. In emails, organizers referred to these conferences as biotech literacy bootcamps, and journalists are described as “partners.” Organizers <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862243-BIO-Funded-and-Political.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">included</a> the chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, Kevin Folta, the Genetic Literacy Project’s Jon Entine, University of Illinois’s Bruce Chassy, and </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">consultant Cami Ryan.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While claiming to be “independent” of industry influence, Folta was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-enlisted-academics-in-gmo-lobbying-war-emails-show.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">exposed</a> in <em style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">The</em> <em style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">New York Times</em> for taking money from Monsanto to promote GMOs. Shortly before the <em style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">Times </em>article reported on his connection to Monsanto, Folta’s university <a href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/LK/20150828/SPORTS/604134071/GS/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">declared its intention</a> to donate these undisclosed payments to charity.</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://polluterwatch.com/jon-entine" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Entine</a> was affiliated with a now-defunct group called STATS, which <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">promoted</a> positive messages about chemicals and <a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195297.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">provided</a> communications support for tobacco companies. Last year, Entine wrote an article <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/03/01/how-the-columbia-journalism-school-smeared-exxon/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">attacking professors</a> at Columbia Journalism School for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/when-a-journalist-crosses-from-science-to-ideology_us_5904e070e4b05279d4edbc8e" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">their investigations </a>of ExxonMobil’s involvement in climate change denial. Years ago, an <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/10/a-valuable-reputation" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">article in <em style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">The New Yorker</em></a> reported on Entine’s apparent involvement in the <b>industry’s coordinated condemnation of a professor at University of California-Berkeley, whose research is critical of pesticides.</b></font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>Besides receiving money to help Monsanto, Chassy runs <a href="http://academicsreview.org/about-academic-review/founders/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Academics Review</a>, </b>a site suggested to him by <a href="https://www.usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Sachs-AR.pdf" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">an executive at Monsanto</a> who emailed, “The key will be keeping Monsanto in the background so as not to harm the credibility of the information.”</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">After helping plan the first conference, <a href="https://camiryan.com/about/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Cami Ryan</a> later took a job with <a href="https://camiryan.com/about/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Monsanto</a>.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“These are distressing materials,” says Naomi Oreskes,</b> professor of the history of science at Harvard University, after reviewing documents and emails about the conferences. Oreskes says the involvement of the American Council on Science and Health is especially problematic, given its long history of undermining the science on chemical safety and pesticides. She added: “It is clearly intended to persuade people that GMO crops are beneficial, needed, and not sufficiently risky to justify labeling.”</font></p><hr style="background-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; order: 0; clear: both; height: 1px; border: 0px; max-width: 80%; margin: 1.2em auto; opacity: 0;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>After early <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3872363-Entine-Folta-BLP-Hotspots.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">discussions in 2013</a>, Entine later <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862243-BIO-Funded-and-Political.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">emailed</a> Folta, Chassy, and Ryan noting that the conferences needed to include people “strategically located” in key states where political battles over GMO foods were occurring. Entine <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862243-BIO-Funded-and-Political.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">added</a> that once the program is figured out, “I’ll take on proposing the handful of journalists and media experts that we would hope to bring on board.”</b></font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">When a journalist asked who was behind the 2015 conference at UC-Davis, Entine wrote that the biotech literacy events had university sponsorship, as well as support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the State Department, and Academics Review, which gets some industry support. In an <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862246-Bruce-Chassy-on-Bootcamps.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">email</a> to several scientists, Chassy also claimed that universities and U.S. federal agencies were funding the literacy bootcamp conferences, and said the honoraria for presenters would be $2,500. Chassy added, “Journalists aren’t inexpensive.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But both the University of Florida and UC-Davis denied financially supporting these conferences</b>. A spokesperson from the State Department said the agency merely sent a speaker to the 2014 conference at the University of Florida. After weeks of repeated requests, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Agriculture was unable to find evidence of the federal agency’s financial support for the conferences.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So where did the cash come from? It’s a twisted money trail.</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862253-Entine-Ronald-Beachy-MOU.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">agreement</a> signed by Entine states that the literacy bootcamp at UC-Davis anticipated having many expenses paid by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). When contacted, BIO confirmed that it gave Academics Review $175,000 for the 2014 conference at the University of Florida and $165,000 for the 2015 conference at UC-Davis.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>But BIO added that the money was cycled through a nonprofit it operates called the Council on Biotechnology Information (CBI). </b>In fact, the tax forms for CBI state that it gave a total of $300,000 to Academics Review in both </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862248-CBI-Academics-Review-2014.html" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">2014</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862249-CBI-Academics-Review-2015.html" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">2015</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862291-Academics-Review-990-2015.html" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">tax forms</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for Academics Review, which Chassy runs with his wife, note that the group spent more than $160,000 on the UC-Davis conference in 2015.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In short, the only traceable money source is the biotech industry. So, what did industry money buy?</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">A flyer for the <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862244-BLP-Davis-Flyer.html" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">2015 event at UC-Davis</a> lists more than a dozen faculty, including <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=27" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Jay Byrne</a>, a former public relations officer at Monsanto who now runs a PR firm that promotes GMOs. Also listed as faculty is Nina Fedoroff, a professor <a href="http://bio.psu.edu/directory/nvf1" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">at Penn State</a>, who also serves as a <a href="http://www.ofwlaw.com/2016/11/01/hakims-effort-to-skewer-biotech-crops-in-sundays-ny-times/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">science adviser, and resident media critic</a>, for a law firm that represents the biotech industry.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the attendees at the UC-Davis conference listed as <b>“journalists” were Hank Campbell of the website Science 2.0</b>, which regularly posts pro-GMO propaganda. Campbell is now president of the <b>American Council on Science and Health, which <a href="http://acsh.org/news/2017/03/24/new-york-university-journalism-academics-stop-libeling-scientists-and-doctors-11032" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">attacks</a> reporters for exposing scientists’ hidden ties to industry and the potential <a href="http://www.acsh.org/news/2017/03/01/bees-shouldn%E2%80%99t-become-next-%E2%80%98fake-news%E2%80%99-victim-10927" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">dangers of pesticides</a>.</b></font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">After reviewing conference documents, Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, said, “If journalists attend conferences that they are paid to attend, they need to be deeply suspicious from the get-go.” She added that the conference organizers were likely trying to convince journalists that anyone questioning the safety of GMOs “is anti-science and in the same category as climate change deniers.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.healthnewsreview.org/about-us/reviewers/gary-schwitzer/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Gary Schwitzer</a>, who is the publisher of HealthNewsReview and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, is also concerned.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Far too many journalists are sliding down the slippery slope of attending conferences that are sponsored by entities with financial interests,” he said. “This practice changes journalism [into] another form of pay-for-play.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked about the funding for the bootcamps and the financial support from industry to his organization, Entine responded, “Sorry, I’ve never heard of you. I don’t respond to activists with no history of credible reporting.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Folta said he understands the conferences were funded by BIO and he organized the events outside of work hours. “All of my funding, as always, is and has been fully disclosed in accordance with university policy,” he added.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a statement to <em style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">The Progressive</em>, Monsanto wrote that the company collaborates with multiple organizations and provides financial support in a transparent manner to many industry organizations including CBI, of which the American Council on Science and Health is a supporting partner. Monsanto added that it does not provide funding to the Genetic Literacy Project, but ignored repeated questions about their financial support for the American Council on Science and Health.</font></p><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Chassy did not respond to queries about funding for Academics Review and the biotech conferences. But he did join Entine and Folta in sending a letter to <em style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; order: 0;">The Progressive </em>accusing the author of unspecified “bias and harassment tactics” and “multiple false and potentially libelous insinuations and claims.”</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.6em 2.6em 1em 0px; padding: 1.6em 2em 1.6em 0px; order: 0; border-top: 3px solid rgb(57, 130, 106); border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(57, 130, 106); width: 385.922px; float: left;"><p style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 38.22px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Many reporters are simply too intimidated and afraid to report on the health and environmental effects of the agrichemical industry and its products.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gary Ruskin is codirector of <a href="https://usrtk.org/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">U.S. Right to Know</a>, a nonprofit that works on transparency in the food industry and receives some <a href="http://usrtk.org/donors/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">funding</a> from the <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/" target="blank" style="position: static; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; order: 0; border-bottom: none;">Organic Consumers Association</a>. His group first got public records of industry-supported conferences.“Many reporters are simply too intimidated and afraid to report on the health and environmental effects of the agrichemical industry and its products,” he says.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 30.87px; order: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry tars public health advocates and reporters as anti-science for raising issues the public needs to understand. That should worry us all. </font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">old blog dead/ another:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://doccamiryan.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/the-consumer-and-gmos-adrift-in-a-sea-of-misinformation/</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.7em; line-height: 30.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“A little bit about me…”</font></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30.6px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some have referred to me as an “outspoken” advocate for agriculture, science and consumers. I prefer the word “passionate.” I have worked in agriculture for over 20 years, most of that time as a public sector researcher.  I love research and I have been involved in many interesting projects over the years. Research topics have run the gamut from exploring the nuances of agricultural or innovation policy to examining how science is communicated and perceived by the public.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have authored (or co-authored) a couple of books: </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Evaluating Performance of Research Networks </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2008) and </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Innovation in Agri-Food Clusters</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (2013) plus penned </span><a href="https://doccamiryan.wordpress.com/cv/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">numerous articles for books and academic journals</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> such as </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The International Journal of Technology and Globalization, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Journal of Innovation Management, AgBioForum, Industry and Innovation and the Journal of International Law and Trade Policy.  </i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stepping outside the ‘Ivory Tower’, I have had the privilege to publish pieces in mainstream media publications and online forums including:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Western Producer, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/cami-ryan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">The Huffington Post (Alberta)</a>, The Winnipeg Free Press, RealAgriculture.com, <a href="http://www.agwest.sk.ca/blog/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">AgWestBio Blog</a>, <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Discover Mag Blogs</a>, <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Scientific American Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.iwf.org/blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Independent Women’s Forum</a> </i>and<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.biofortified.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> Biofortified</a>.  </i>(see <a href="https://doccamiryan.wordpress.com/best-of-camis-blog/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">‘<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Best of Blog’ </strong></a>for links to these works)</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.625;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Currently, I am the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Sciences Lead </strong>with Regulatory Policy and Scientific Affairs for<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Monsanto Canada</strong>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">  I hold a Bachelor of Commerce (Major in Biotechnology Management) and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (agricultural economics, business and sociology).</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">– – – –</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Want to know more about me?</strong></span> Recently, I got to chat with Katie Lukens Pinke’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pinke Post</em> and was lucky to be featured on her blog: “<a href="http://thepinkepost.com/2014/11/dr-cami-ryan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Canadian Mom and Monsanto’s New Social Scientist, Meet Dr. Cami Ryan.” </a> Thanks for that, Katie! Also, I had the opportunity to engage with the Arctic Apple folks on their <a href="http://www.arcticapples.com/blog/joel/qa-series-agvocate-dr-cami-ryan-part-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Q&A series</a>. Here is a <a href="http://maureenogle.com/2013/08/27/q-a-series-camille-ryan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Q&A of me</a> by historian/ranter (her term, not mine), <a href="http://maureenogle.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Maureen Ogle</a>. Plus, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spreaker.com%2Fuser%2Ffoodandfarm%2Fcami_ryan&h=8AQG-F2bX" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">this interview</a> that I did with the always charming, <a href="http://www.americaswebradio.com/showpages/foodAndFarm.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Ray Bowman of the Food and Farm Show</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This blog is and always has been a personal channel of expression for me and I am solely responsible for its content.  It does not represent official communications from my employer, Monsanto Canada, or any other organization. The views expressed in the body of the entries or in comments may not necessarily reflect my views, those of the company or of anyone else. Posts made prior to September 29, 2014 were made when I was either an independent researcher/public speaker or an academic, employed by the University of Saskatchewan. </font></strong></em></span></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.7em; line-height: 30.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Credible sources for evidence-based information</font></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30.6px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Need some good resources to help dispel or navigate through some of that online (mis)information on GMOs? Check out this outstanding <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://doccamiryan.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/a-great-list-of-resources-compiled-by-diva-eytcheson.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">list of resources compiled by Diva Eytcheson</a></strong>. :O)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And… <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">another</em> amazing collection of<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.dangeroustalk.net/a-team/GMO" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">GMO related information/artefacts</a>on <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DangerousTalk.net. </em></strong></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of my favourite *go-to blogs, online sources and experts (in alphabetical order):</font></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://academicsreview.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Academics Review </a>– Testing popular claims against peer reviewed science</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://agribiotech.info/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">AgriBiotech</a> – University of California’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a title="Visit this link" href="http://appliedmythology.blogspot.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Applied Mythology</a> What if much that you think you know about agriculture, farming and food isn’t actually true? What if there are “myths” that have been intentionally and mostly unintentionally spread about these issues? What if the truth about these issues matters for the future of humanity? That is what this blog is about.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Becca Harrison – Cornell University student and great writer/journalist hosts a blog where she tackles a number of issues around GMOs while reporting on happenings and outcomes of Prof. Herring’s Cornell <a href="http://universitycourses.cornell.edu/courses/gmo-debate-science-society-and-global-impacts" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">course</a>: : <a href="http://raharrison.com/2013/09/02/the-gmo-debate-science-society-part-i/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">The GMO Debate and Society (Part I</a>); <a href="http://raharrison.com/2013/09/07/global-rifts-over-biotechnology-dimensions-and-contention-gmo-debate-part-ii/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Global Rifts over Biotechnology (Part II</a>); <a href="http://raharrison.com/2013/09/07/what-is-a-gmo-gmo-debate-part-iii/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">What is a GMO? (Part III)</a></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a title="Visit this link" href="http://www.biofortified.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Biofortified – stronger plants, stronger science, stronger communication</a><a title="Visit this link" href="http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> </a>Providing factual information and fostering discussion about agriculture, especially plant genetics and genetic engineering.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.whybiotech.ca/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Council for Biotechnology Information</a> – founded in 2000, CBI’s mandate has been dedicated to presenting science-based information to the public.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://cropgeneticsinnovation.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Crop Genetics Innovation and Scientific Literacy</a> – carries out exploratory research to accelerate gene discovery in the world’s most important staple food crops, establishes partnerships in the interest of improving food security in the developing world, and enables scientists to better communicate their research results to the public.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Genetic Literacy Project</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">– where science trumps ideology. See this October 8, 2013 post by JoAnna Wendel “</span><a href="https://doccamiryan.wordpress.com/other-interesting-links/2000+%20global%20studies%20confirming%20safety,%20GM%20foods%20among%20most%20analyzed%20subject%20in%20science" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GM foods among most analyzed subject in science</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://geneticmaize.wordpress.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Genetic Maize</a> (blog by Anastasia Bodnar) – dispels myths about GMOs and other science topics</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://parrottlab.uga.edu/parrottlab/forum2.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">GMO Crops (mis)information Site</a> – Providing centralized information resources on GMO crops</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a title="Visit this link" href="http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GMO Pundit a.k.a. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">David Tribe</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Helping readers navigate the confusing myths of modern biology</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kevin Folta’s “<a href="http://kfolta.blogspot.ca/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Illumination</a>” – An old adage says, “It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness”. Kevin thinks we better do both.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.science20.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Science 2.0</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">– This site includes everything ‘science’ – not to mention great pieces by Hank Campbell (co-author of </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Science Left Behind</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a title="Visit this link" href="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Science-Based Medicine</a> Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.senseaboutscience.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sense about Science</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> – equipping people to make sense of science and scientific evidence.  Check out the </span><a href="http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/plant-science-expert-panel.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Plant Science Expert Panel</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, ask your questions!</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://skepticalraptor.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Skeptical Raptor</a> enjoys “the jungles of the internet, where junk science, pseudoscience, myths, logical fallacies, and outright lies survive unchecked.” SR is snarky and clever. Nice combination for us skeptics, IMHO.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a title="Visit this link" href="http://scienceblogs.com/tomorrowstable/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Tomorrow’s Table – Dr. Pam Ronald’s blog on genetics, food and farming</a> Pamela Ronald is Professor of Plant Pathology at the <a href="http://indica.ucdavis.edu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">University of California, Davis</a>, where she studies the role that genes play in a plant’s response to its environment. Her laboratory has genetically engineered rice for resistance to diseases and flooding, both of which are serious problems of rice crops in Asia and Africa. Ronald is co-author with her husband, an organic farmer.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">University of California Biotech – <a href="http://ucbiotech.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">UCBiotech</a></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.vegangmo.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Vegan GMO</a> – a vegan’s rational approach to transgenic technology (among the numerous virtues of the site, provides a <a href="http://www.vegangmo.com/?p=711" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">list of resources</a> on the Seralini study)</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Do you get confused about the different organizations that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</em> out there and how to determine which are reliable and evidence-based and which aren’t? You are not alone.  </font></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is a<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “<a href="http://www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecorg.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Guide to Quackery</a>“</strong>; it includes questions to ask and observations to make that will help you to muddle through some of the (mis)information.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And check out <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gmosf.org/look-smart-online/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">GMO SkeptiForum’s Guide to Looking Smart on the Online</a></strong>: how to evaluate what you see and read on the internet…the ultimate debunking guide!</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are a few ‘new and important narratives’ in the whole GMO debate:</font></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://sleuth4health.wordpress.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Sleuth for Health:</a> Getting to the truth about GMOs – – – check out Julee’s new series on the benevolent side of GMOs (BTW – Julee has kept ALL of her blog entries since before she turned the page in favour of GMOs – – – interesting contrasts there!)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.marklynas.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Mark Lynas</a>: former Greenpeace anti-GM activist, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">speaker and author </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans 2011; <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">High Tide: News from a warming world</em> (2004); <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet</em> (2007)) </em></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://randomrationality.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Random Rationalit</a><a href="http://randomrationality.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">y</a>: writer, entrepreneur, photographer, explorer, and idiot (his words, not mine), Fourat (once avid anti-GMO-er) talks GMOs in a series he writes</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://onehundredmeals.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">One Hundred Meals</a>: Malloy (culinary expert, foodie) and Kessler (food and farm fan) approach farming, food and production in a well-balanced way – – –</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And check out <a href="http://www.arcticapples.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Arctic Apples</a> Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF)- a Canadian company that has developed a non-browning apple! Also, watch OSF President <a href="http://www.arcticapples.com/blog/neal/osfs-neal-carter-presents-tedx-talk#.UL4zb6U1ZFJ" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Neal Carter’s TEDTalk </a>on the benefit of ag biotech!</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rachael Ludwick (Blog: <a href="http://www.fancybeans.com/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Fancy Beans</a>) <a href="http://www.fancybeans.com/blog/2013/06/04/recommended-reading-on-genetically-engineered-foods/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">shares the books</a> that she read that changed her mind about GE and GMOs</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WANNA DIALOGUE? I mean REALLY dialogue?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then check out <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/GMOSF/?fref=ts" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">GMO SkeptiForum</a></strong>, a online Facebook forum that critically examines the issues (science, policy, ethics, legal, etc) around GMOs.  The Forum is extremely well-moderated and is OPEN to anyone willing to engage in rational and reasoned discussions.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Studies that attest to the safety of GE crops and GM foods:</font></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/media/AAAS_GM_statement.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; line-height: 1.625;">American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Statement by the AAAS Board of Directors on Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.625;"> (2012)</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/csaph/a12-csaph2-bioengineeredfoods.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">American Medical Association (AMA) Report on Labeling of Bioengineered Foods</a>(2012)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-funded_gmo_research.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">European Commission report: A decade of EU-funded GMO research (2001-2010)</a>(2010)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/1057.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) report. Safety and nutritional assessment of GM plants and derived food and feed: The role of animal feeding trials</a> (2008)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.ift.org/Knowledge-Center/Read-IFT-Publications/Science-Reports/Expert-Reports/Biotechnology-and-Foods.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Expert Report: Biotechnology and Foods</a> (2000)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5160e/y5160e00.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/United Nations (UN) Report: The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-2004: Agricultural Biotechnology Meeting the Needs of the Poor?</a> (2004)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nicolia A, Manzo A, Veronesi F, Rosellini D. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24041244" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research.</a> Crit Rev Biotechnol. 2013 Sep 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24041244. Impact factor=5.095.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309092094" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">National Research Council/U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on the Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects</a> (2004)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12804&page=R1" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">National Research Council/U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on the Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States</a>(2010)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.toxicology.org/ai/gm/gm_food.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Society of Toxicology (SOT) Position Paper: The Safety of Genetically Modified Foods Produced through Biotechnology</a> (2002)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/biotech_en.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">World Health Organization (WHO). Modern food biotechnology, human health and development: an evidence-based study</a> (2005)</font></li></ul></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">LI</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>AgBioForum </b>16(3)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2014</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is often convenient to divide the world into those countries that have been generally accepting of agricultural biotechnology and those that are not. While the debate over biotechnology continues to rage where biotechnology has not been accepted, in adopting countries the debate is often seen as being over. This has been the case for the United States. In fact, the debate over agricultural biotechnology has continued but has not had a high profile. The debate in the United States has been re-energized due to California’s 2012 Proposition 37, which would have required labeling of GM-foods in the state. Given the importance of California in both the national food system and national politics, Proposition 37 had national and international ramifications. While Proposition 37 was rejected by a narrow margin, it has spurred other state- and municipal-level initiatives regarding the regulation of biotechnology. This article examines the political dynamics underlying Proposition 37 and the economic implications of similar regulatory initiatives becoming law in the future. The article argues that proposed measures can have a major influence on attempts to regulate in other jurisdictions.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Authors:Camille (Cami) D. Ryan, Lisa F. Clark, William A. Kerr</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Innovation in AgriFood Clusters: theory and case studies</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CABI</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">June 2013</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Innovation has moved through a range of revolutionary epochs, but there is no clear picture of how, or even if, innovation can be managed. This book explores the models, methods and metrics of innovation analysis in the context of a single center: the Global Oilseeds Complex centered in Saskatoon, Canada. It is a single, coherent volume that outlines the theory and practices related to innovation, offering a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches, backed up with empirical evidence.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Authors:Camille (Cami) D. Ryan, Peter WB Phillips, Jeremy Karwandy, Graeme Webb</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Apathy and Online Activism: an impetus for science communication(Link)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">International Journal of Technology Knowledge and Society</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2013</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Although the Internet is now the leading source of information on scientific issues, studies suggest that university faculty and researchers have been slow to adopt non-traditional forms of communication to engage in scientific conversations online. In this article we test our observation that university researchers are not widely engaged online, largely because of a lack of incentives within the traditional academic system. A textual discourse analysis of Canadian university policies reveals that faculty promotion and tenure policies rarely take into account new media practice or similar outreach activities. In addition, social media policies do not demonstrate the potential value-add or the proactive communications aspects of new media. As part of ‘issues management’ policy development, we suggest that new media practice and tools be considered in academic portfolios as presented for promotion and tenure. As well, social media policies should be more proactive and supportive of online outreach and communication.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Authors:Camille (Cami) D. Ryan, Kari Doerksen</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Evaluating Performance of Research Networks: a socioeconomic framework for assessing funded research projects(Link)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">VDM Verlag: Germany</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2008</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Managing knowledge and advancing innovation in science involves the partnering of geographically dispersed and institutionally distinct actors. However, the capacity to evaluate performance of these research networks is lagging the adoption of the collaborative model. This book presents a novel framework that combines social network analysis with a series of descriptive and relational indicators to longitudinally assess three phases of the collaborative process. The study, in particular, explores the impact of network structure on productivity. Two federally funded research projects, each distinct in terms of structure, are assessed. One network is self-organized, funded outright with no government intervention. The other, however, is deemed imposed with a strong government hand in the network structure. Results suggest that a history of collaborative activity amongst network actors is positively correlated with future performance and network structure does, in fact, impact network-based productivity. This book is a useful resource for project managers, managing scientists as well as program developers in government agencies that advocate and support research.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Economic Implications of Low-level Presence in a Zero-Tolerance European Import Market:</b> The Case of Canadian Triffid Flax(Link)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">AgBioForum</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2012</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Triffid is the name given to a genetically modified (GM) variety of flaxseed that was developed in the late 1980s at the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre. The variety was designed to thrive in soil containing residues from sulfonylurea-type herbicides and offered greater weed control options to flax growers. In 1998, Triffid received Canadian and American feed and food regulatory approvals and entered a seed multiplication program. The following year, Europe threatened to stop importing Canadian flax should GM flax enter into commercial production. By April 2001, Triffid was deregistered and all remaining seed was supposedly destroyed. However, in late 2009, Triffid flax was unexpectedly detected in EU food products and in subsequent flax imports into Europe from Canada. In response to this, the EU immediately halted Canadian flax imports.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Authors:Camille (Cami) D. Ryan, Stuart Smyth</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Managing Intellectual Property to Promote Pre-Competitive Research: The Mouse as a Model for Constructing a Robust Research Commons(Link)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Journal of Law Information and Science</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2012</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Authors:Camille (Cami) D. Ryan, David Einhorn, Rhiannon Noble, Paul Schofield, Tania Bubela</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Intellectual Property and Freedom to Operate in the<b> Flax Breeding World: Canada in a global context(</b>Link)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">International Journal of Technology and Globalization</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2012</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Abstract: Through one-on-one in-depth interviews of Canadian public sector flax breeders, this study explores issues around Intellectual Property (IP) and Freedom To Operate (FTP) in flax breeding from a Canadian perspective. The results are supported by a scan of flax breeding efforts worldwide, an in-depth patent analysis (using Patent Lens and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) databases) and a review of varietal registrations (via the International Union for Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Variety Registration database) for country-by-country applications to national listings and Plant Breeders Rights (PBRs). The results suggest that while stronger Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) seem to hamper research in some crops, flax breeding – overall – has not witnessed the negative effects of stronger IP protection. Relative to other crops, flax production worldwide is small. The flax breeding industry itself is represented primarily by public research institutions with only a few small private companies operating in this area worldwide. Given the significant involvement of the public sector and the limited use of biotechnology, the flax IP landscape is not as complex as that of other oil crops such as canola and soybeans.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Authors:Camille (Cami) D. Ryan, Viktoryia Galushko</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Skills</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Agricultural ResearchSocial Network AnalysisBiotechnologyEconomicsCluster Analysisgap analysissocial mediascience communicationResearch DesignScience CommunicationBloggingSocial MediaGeneticsBioinformaticsGap AnalysisSee 24+ </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div>Cami Ryan is a Professional Research Associate in the Department of Plant Sciences and Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics at the University of Saskatchewan.</div><div>
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</div><div>Books and Chapters in Books</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, P.W.B., G. Webb, J. Karwandy and Camille D. Ryan. (2013). Innovation in Agri-Food Clusters: from theory to practice. CABI: UK.</div><div>
</div><div>Gaisford, J., W. Kerr, P.W.B. Phillips and C.D. Ryan. (2011). “High-tech clustering in Canada.” In Industrial Organization in Canada: Empirical Evidence and Policy Challenges. Industry Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press. Pps: 284-335.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2008) Evaluating Performance of Research Networks: a socioeconomic framework for assessing funded research projects. Published by: VDM Verlag: Germany.</div><div>
</div><div>Camille D. Ryan and P.W.B. Phillips. (2008). “Evaluating Knowledge Management Capacity in R&D Networks: Social network analyses of Genome Canada projects.” In Applications of Social Network Analysis ASNA 2005. Uwe Serdült and Volker Täube (eds). Pps: 233-254.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, P.W.B., Camille D. Ryan, Jeremy Karwandy, Tara Lynn Procyshyn and Julie Lynn Parchewski. (2008). “The Saskatoon Agricultural-biotechnology Cluster.” In Handbook of Research on Clusters: Theories, Policies and Case Studies. Karlsson, C. (ed). Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, U.S: Edward Elgar. Pps: 239 – 252.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, P.W.B. and Camille D. Ryan. (2007). “The Role of Clusters in Driving Innovation.” In the Handbook of Best Practices for Management of Intellectual Property in Health and Agriculture, Krattiger et al (eds). The Centre for the Management of IP in Health R&D (MIHR) and the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) (supported through the Rockefeller Foundation). Pps 281 – 294.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, P.W.B. and Camille D. Ryan. (2007). “Building clusters: exploring public policy options for supporting regional innovation.” In the Handbook of Best Practices for Management of Intellectual Property in Health and Agriculture, Krattiger etal (eds). The Centre for the Management of IP in Health R&D (MIHR) and the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) (supported through the Rockefeller Foundation). Pps 317 – 336.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, P.W.B., Camille D. Ryan, Jeremy Karwandy, Tara L. Procyshyn and Julie L. Parchewski. (2005). “Quantitative Cluster Analysis: from theory to practice.” In Global Networks and Local Linkages: the paradox of cluster development in an open economy. Published for the School of Policy Studies, McGill–Queen's University Press for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University. Pp 57– 82.</div><div>
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</div><div>Journal articles</div><div>
</div><div>Bubela, T., Paul N. Schofield, Camille D. Ryan, Rhiannon Adams and David Einhorn. (2013). “Managing Intellectual Property to Promote Pre-Competitive Research: the mouse as a model for constructing a robust research commons.” Journal of Law, Information and Science. Volume 20, Issue 1.</div><div>
</div><div>Boland, W., P.W.B. Phillips, C. Ryan and S. McPhee-Knowles. (2012). Collaboration and the generation of new knowledge in networked innovation systems: a bibliometric analysis. Social and Behavioural Sciences. Volume 52. Pps: 15-24.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Cami, Jillian McDonald and Stuart Smyth (2012). “Assessing the Influence of International Agreements on the Development of Science-based Regulatory Systems in Transition Economies.” Journal of International Law and Trade Policy.Volume 13,No.2. pp 216-242.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Cami and Stuart Smyth (2012). “Economic Implications of Low Level Presence in a Zero Tolerance European Import Market: The Case of Canadian Triffid Flax.” AgBioForum.15(1) pps: 21-30.</div><div>
</div><div>Galushko, Viktoryia and Camille D. Ryan. (2012) “Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Knowledge Sharing in Flax Breeding.” Journal of Technology and Globalization.Volume 6. No. 3. Pps: 171-187.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D., B. Li and Cooper H. Langford. (2011). “Innovative Workers in Relation to the City: the case of a Natural Resource-based Centre (Calgary).” City, Culture and Society. Volume 2, Issue 1. Pps: 45-54.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. and Stuart J. Smyth. (2010). “Facilitating Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology: An Examination of the Ag-West Biotech Governance Model, 1989-2004.” AgBioForum. Volume 13, Number 2, Article 9. http://www.agbioforum.org/v13n2/v13n2a09-smyth.htm</div><div>
</div><div>Coenen, Lars, Jerker Moodysson, Camille D. Ryan, Bjørn Asheim and Peter W.B. Phillips. (2006). “Knowledge bases and spatial patterns of collaboration: comparing the pharma and agro-food bioregions Scania and Saskatoon.” Industry and Innovation. Volume 13, Number 4. pps 393-414.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. and Peter W.B. Phillips (2004). “Knowledge management in advanced technology industries: An examination of international agricultural biotechnology clusters.” Environment and Planning C, Government and Policy. London, England. Volume 22 (2) April, 217 – 232.</div><div>
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</div><div><b>Non–peer reviewed publications</b></div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, C. (2011). Launching a social media strategy to advocate for science: is GE3LS* missing the boat? Opinion piece for GELS Newsletter: Emerging GE3LS issues.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2009) “Navigating Geographic and Institutional Boundaries: Joint U of C/U of S Post Doctoral Fellowship.” GE3LS Newsletter.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2008) “Diffusion, Search and Play: Vega-Redondo’s approach to complex social networks.” Book Review in Science and Public Policy</div><div>
</div><div>Bassett, Tony and Cami Ryan. (2005) “Realizing Yields from Publicly Funded Research in Agriculture.” AgBiotech Bulletin. September. Available online at: http://www.agwest.sk.ca/communications/agbiotech_bulletin_archives.html.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2005). “Peter McCann.” In Encyclopaedia of Saskatchewan: A Living Legacy. David A. Gauthier, ed. Canadian Plains Research Centre: University of Regina.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Cami. (2004). “Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Agricultural biotech cluster.” The Clustering Alliance. Number 53, May 2004.</div><div>
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</div><div>Technical reports relevant to academic field</div><div>
</div><div>Galushko, V. and C. Ryan (2010). “Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Knowledge Sharing in Flax Breeding.” Report for CAIRN. August.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, C.D. (2008). “Assessing Scale, Scope and Nature of the IISD Internet Governance Network.” Report for the International Institute for Sustainable Development. January.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, C.D. and J. S. Katz. (2007). “Western Canadian Functional Food and Natural Health Products Network: a network analysis.” April.</div><div>
</div><div>Smyth, S.J., M. Phillipson, H. Furtan and C.D. Ryan. (2006). “Implications and Potential Impacts from the Expiry of Patents on Herbicide Tolerant Canola Varieties.” Research Report for the Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission. June.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, Peter W.B., Julie Parchewski, Tara Procyshyn, Camille D. Ryan, Jeremy Karwandy and Josefin Kihlberg. (2004) “Agricultural and Life–science Clusters in Canada: An empirical and policy analysis.” Report generated on the Saskatoon agricultural biotechnology cluster for Agriculture and AgriFood Canada (AAFC). March 30.</div><div>
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</div><div>Peer reviewed presentations</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, C.D. (2012). “Analysis of the Wheat Genomics Research and Breeding Network.” Canadian Triticum Advancement through Genomics (CTAG). November 23. Radisson Hotel, Saskatoon.</div><div>
</div><div>Boland, W., P.W.B. Phillips, C. Ryan and S. McPhee-Knowles. (2012). “Collaboration and the generation of new knowledge in networked innovation systems: a bibliometric analysis.” Triple Helix Conference X. Indonesia. August 8 – 11.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille and Kari Doerksen. (2012). “Catching up or falling behind? University-based policy development and issues management in the bioeconomy” International Consortium of Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR). Ravello, Italy. June 27.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille, M. St. Louis and Peter W.B. Phillips. (2012). “Incorporating Social Network Analysis into the Evaluation of ‘Big Science’.” International Society for Professional Innovation Managers (ISPIM). Barcelona, Spain. June 21.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan,Cami. (2012). “Triffid Flax: a drama in three acts” VALGEN Conference. Vancouver. March 7.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Cami and Stuart Smyth. (2012). “Regulating PNTs derived out of new plant breeding techniques.” Flax Research Workshop. Banff. February 21.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Cami. (2012). “Exploring the social and economic costs of ero tolerance policy on the Canadian producer: the case of Triffid flax.” Flax Day, Crop Production Week. Saskatoon Inn, Saskatchewan. January 9.</div><div>
</div><div>Boland, W., P.W.P. Phillips and C.D. Ryan (2011). “Public Private Partnerships and public policy: a comparative social network analysis and policy analysis on competing national systems of innovation.” Triple Helix IX International Conference on The Silicon Valley: Global Model or Unique Anomoly? Stanford University. Palo Alto, California. July 11-14.</div><div>
</div><div>Sharma, P. P.W.P. Phillips and C.D. Ryan (2011). “Social capital as an outcome of government’s transformational role in the Triple Helix Model: A Case of a Large-scale S&T project.” Triple Helix IX International Conference on The Silicon Valley: Global Model or Unique Anomoly? Stanford University. Palo Alto, California. July 11-14.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, P.W.P., W. Boland and C. D. Ryan. (2010). “Centreless Governance and the Management of Global R&D Partnerships and Plant-Genetic Resource Management.” Triple Helix VIII International Conference on University, Industry and Government Linkages. Madrid, Spain. October 22.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, C and S. Smyth. (2010). “Exploring Social and Trade Impacts of Adventitious Presence (AP): a case study of GM Flax.” Genomics and Society: Ten Years After, Mapping the Societal Genomics Landscape. Amsterdam. May 28.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips, P.W.B. and C. Ryan (2010). “Governance of International Networks: a social network analysis of international institutions related to plant genetic resources.” Political Studies Association Conference - Sixty Years of Political Studies: Achievements and Futures. Edinburgh, Scotland. March 29-30.</div><div>
</div><div>Smyth, S. and C. Ryan (2010). “Liability in the Canadian marketplace.” Flax Genomics Workshop. Radisson, Saskatoon. February 24, 2010</div><div>
</div><div>Smyth, S. and C. Ryan (2009). “Marketplace Liabilities of Commingling.” Genetically Modified Coexistence Conference. Melbourne, Australia. February 24, 2010</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2009). “Integrating qualitative with output factors in the evaluation of research collaborations.” INSNA Sunbelt XXIX. Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California. March 11.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D., Cooper H. Langford and Ben Li. (2008) “Attracting and Retaining Creativity in the Calgary City Region.” The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Rotterdam, The Netherlands. August 21.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D., Cooper H. Langford and Ben Li. (2008) “Attracting ‘Creative’ Drive: key influences on the Calgary Innovation System.” ISRN 10th Annual Conference. Hotel Omni Mont-Royal. May 2.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2008). “Network Structure and Performance: a social network analysis of Genome Canada funded research projects.” GE3LS International Symposium. The Westin, Calgary, Alberta. April 29.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. and P.W.B. Phillips. (2006). “Assessing Economic and Social Impacts of Synchrotron Science: exploring the CLS Network using the social network analysis tool.” The Common Ground Technology & Citizenship Symposium. McGill University. Montreal, Quebec. June 8-9.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2006). “Using Social Network Analysis to Explore and Predict Performance in Public-Private Partnerships: a case-based analysis of Government Funded Research Networks.” Sunbelt XXVI. Vancouver, B.C. April 25-30.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2005). “Knowledge Creation, Exchange and Output in Research Networks.” Canadian Agricultural Innovation Research Network (CAIRN) Workshop Public Institutions and Management of Intellectual Property. Toronto, Ontario. December 14.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. and Peter W.B. Phillips. (2005). “Using Social Network Analysis to Explore and Predict Performance in Public-Private Collaborations: a case-based analysis of Genomics-based R&D networks.” Centre for Comparative and International Studies: Applications in Social Network Analysis. Zurich, Switzerland. October 20-22.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. and Stuart Smyth. (2005). “Facilitating Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology: An Examination of the Ag-West Bio Inc. Governance Model.” 9th ICABR International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology: Ten Years Later. Ravello (Italy), July 6 – 10. Available online at: http://www.economia.uniroma2.it/conferenze/icabr2005/papers/Smyth_Stuart_1.pdf.</div><div>
</div><div>Coenen, Lars, Jerker Moodysson, Camille D. Ryan, Bjørn Asheim and Peter W.B. Phillips. (2005). “Knowledge bases and spatial patterns of collaboration: comparing the pharma and agro-food bioregions Scania and Saskatoon.” Presentation at the The Inaugural Nordic Geographers Meeting. Lund, Sweden. May 10 – 14.</div><div>
</div><div>Coenen, Lars, Jerker Moodysson, Camille D. Ryan, Bjørn Asheim and Peter W.B. Phillips. (2005). “Knowledge bases and spatial patterns of collaboration: comparing the pharma and agro-food bioregions Scania and Saskatoon.” Presentation at the Bringing Science to Life: an international conference on commercializing biomedical research. Rotman School of Business and the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Toronto, Canada. April 29th-May 1.</div><div>
</div><div>Coenen, Lars, Jerker Moodysson, Camille D. Ryan, Bjørn Asheim and Peter W.B. Phillips. (2005). “Knowledge bases and spatial patterns of collaboration: comparing the pharma and agro-food bioregions Scania and Saskatoon.” Paper prepared for the 2005 Annual Meeting of the AAG (American Association of Geographers). Denver, Colorado. April 5-9.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D., (2004). “From Ag Biotech to Genomics: the evolution of the Saskatoon Cluster.” Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of The Competitiveness Institute – Building Innovative Clusters for Competitive Advantage. September 27 – October 1.</div><div>
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</div><div>Non-peer reviewed presentations:</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2010). “Mapping and evaluating integration between science and social science: a scan of the ABC World.” Valgen Workshop. Rimrock. Banff. January 28-30.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2008). “Navigating the Statistical Divide: Aligning Statscan CMA-based Sectoral Results with Project Output.” Innocom. Kananaskis, Alberta. September 29 – 30.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2008). “The Network Metaphor and Collaborative Relationships amongst Scientists.” Communication and Culture Colloquium Series (Triple C). February 29.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D. (2006). “Social Network Analysis as a Tool for Predicting and Evaluating Performance: a case study and exercise.” InfoConference. National Research Council Information Services (NIS). Ottawa, Ontario. October 23 – 27, 2006.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D., (2005). “Knowledge Creation, Exchange and Output in Research Networks.” Canadian Agriculture Innovation Research Network’s Workshop on Public Institutions and Management of Intellectual Property Rights. Toronto. December 13-14.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan, Camille D., (2005). “Knowledge Management, Social Networks and Project Performance: examining the FPMI network through the social network analysis lens.” Poster presentation at the Functional Pathogenomics of Mucosal Immunity Final Annual General Meeting. October 20 & 21. Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), Saskatoon.</div><div>
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</div><div>Seminar Presentations:</div><div>
</div><div>2008. “The Network Metaphor and Collaborative Relationships amongst Scientists.” Communication and Culture Colloquium Series (Triple C). University of Calgary. February 29.</div><div>
</div><div>2006. “Utilizing Social Network Analysis to Assess Knowledge Exchange Capacity of Organizational Teams.” InfoConference. National Research Council Information Services (NIS). Ottawa, Ontario. October 23 – 27. “Using social network analysis to predict performance in research networks: case base analyses of select Genome Prairie projects.” Seminar Presentation. Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council. Saskatoon. March 22.</div><div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">scrape</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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