cspi Watch

see also activist cash

HumaneWatch.org is a website created by millionaire Washington, D.C.-area lobbyist <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rick_Berman" title="Rick Berman" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Rick Berman</a> and his corporate-funded <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">front group</a>, the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom" title="Center for Consumer Freedom" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Center for Consumer Freedom</a> (CCF) to attack and attempt to de-fund the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Humane_Society_of_the_United_States" title="Humane Society of the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Humane Society of the United States</a> (HSUS). Berman typically targets activist charities that criticize big business, or lobby for policies that conflict with the views of big business. The HSUS lobbies for policies that mandate humane treatment of animals in commercial animal industries, like puppy mills, dairy and confinement meat industries. In addition to attacking HSUS, CCF is known for attacking other public interest and pro-consumer groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/HumaneWatch.org#cite_note-0" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[1]</a>

Other CCF-funded projects include <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/FishScam.com" title="FishScam.com" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">FishScam.com</a>, funded by the food-and-beverage industry to counter scientific evidence about the dangers of mercury levels in fish; <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSPIscam.org&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CSPIscam.org (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">CSPIscam.org</a>, which is dedicated solely to criticizing the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Science_in_the_Public_Interest" title="Center for Science in the Public Interest" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Center for Science in the Public Interest</a>; and <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SunlightScam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SunlightScam (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">SunlightScam</a> which represents indoor tanning manufacturers, distributors, and facility owners, and which claims tanning is not dangerous in any w...<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from whelan ggl doc<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
In 1982, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a watchdog and consumer advocacy group, published an extensive report on ACSH's practices, stating that: "ACSH appears to be a consumer fraud; as a scientific group, ACSH seems to arrive at conclusions before conducting studies. Through voodoo or alchemy, bodies of scientific knowledge are transmogrified into industry-oriented position statements."<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
CSPI director Michael F. Jacobson said of ACSH, "This organization promotes confusion among consumers about what is safe and what isn't... ACSH is using a slick scientific veneer to obscure and deny truths that virtually everyone else agrees with." The CSPI's article, titled "Twisted Consumerism: The Golden Assurance of the American Council on Science and Health,"14 is a startling expose, in which the ACSH is exposed as NOT being the benign truth-delivering organization it pretends to be.<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">