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</font></div><div><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">U</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">S beekeepers continue to report high colony loss rates, no clear progression toward improvement</span></b></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Annual Bee Informed Partnership survey results show the continuing cycle of high honey bee colony turnover, with beekeepers and researchers hoping to find solutions</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Published: June 24, 2021 | Updated: June 25, 2021</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Josh Woods | College of Agriculture</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Beekeepers across the United States lost 45.5% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2020 to April 2021, according to preliminary results of the 15th annual nationwide survey conducted by the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership, or BIP.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>These losses mark the second highest loss rate the survey has recorded since it began in 2006 (</b>6.1 percentage points higher than the average annual loss rate of 39.4%). The survey results highlight the continuing high rates of honey bee colony turnover. The high loss rate was driven by both elevated summer and winter losses this year, with no clear progression toward improvement for beekeepers and their colonies. BIP hopes to use the survey results to better understand how colony losses are experienced by beekeepers, and what can be done to reduce losses in future seasons.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since beekeepers began noticing higher losses in their colonies in the early 2000s, agricultural agencies, researchers, and the beekeeping industry have been working together to understand why and develop best management practices to reduce their losses. The BIP annual colony loss survey, which has been conducted  since 2006, has been integral to that process.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“This year’s survey results show that colony losses are still high,” said Nathalie Steinhauer, BIP’s science coordinator and a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Maryland Department of Entomology. “Not all beekeepers are affected at the same intensity, but the turnover rate of colonies is still overall higher than beekeepers deem acceptable [normal or acceptable turnover is defined at about 20%</b>]. We should remember, however, that loss rates are not the same as population decline. The recent numbers of honey bee colonies in  the U.S. are relatively stable despite those high losses, but that’s because beekeepers invest a lot of time and effort to increase their operation size to mitigate their losses.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Commercial honey bee operations are essential to agricultural production in the U.S., pollinating $15 billion worth of food crops each year. Honey bee colonies are moved around the country to pollinate important agricultural crops such as almonds, blueberries, and apples. Minimizing their losses and ensuring the health of  both commercial and backyard colonies is critical to food production and supply.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Beekeepers of all types consistently lose a high number of colonies each year, which puts a heavy burden on many of them to recoup those losses in time for major pollination events like California almonds,” said Geoffrey Williams, assistant professor of entomology at Auburn University and co-author of the survey. “Colony losses remain elevated, and this year’s annual and summer loss rates are among the highest recorded.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This past year, winter losses were reported at 32.2%, which is 9.6 percentage points higher than last year and 3.9 points higher than the survey average. Summer losses were some of the highest ever reported again this  year at 31.1%, which is 0.9 percentage points lower than last year, but 8.6 points higher than the survey average.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The survey asks beekeeping operations of all sizes to track the survival or turnover rates of their honey bee colonies. This year, 3,347 beekeepers managing 192,384 colonies across the country responded to the survey, representing about 7% of the nation’s estimated 2.71 million managed colonies. This effort helps to keep a finger on the pulse of what is going on with beekeepers to identify why high losses are persisting.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Though we see fluctuations from year to year, the worrisome part is we see no progression towards a  reduction of losses,” said Steinhauer.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The long-term efforts of the BIP’s annual survey are so important to monitoring honey bee colony losses and beekeeper management over time, and hopefully to identifying key practices that are protective for colonies,” said Williams. “Because of the close connection of honey bees to the environment, the survey’s long-term data may lend itself to insights into how changes in land-use and weather impact the beekeeping industry, too. These are really understudied areas at the moment.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This year, to get a better understanding of different management practices that may lead to loss fluctuations, the BIP team delivered two versions of the survey to cater to different beekeepers. The two surveys found that backyard (managing 50 or fewer colonies) and sideliner (managing 51-500 colonies) beekeeping operations face both similar and distinct challenges to commercial beekeepers managing more than 500 colonies. While parasitic varroa mites continue to be a major issue for beekeepers regardless of operation size, queen management might be a factor that can lead to variation in seasonal colony losses.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“A colony needs a healthy, fully functioning queen before major pollination events to be productive,” said Williams. “A preliminary look into survey data reveals that commercial beekeepers almost always replace old queens with new ones during the summer, whereas only about half of backyard beekeepers do. Could this explain why commercial beekeepers lose fewer colonies in the subsequent winter than backyard beekeepers? Perhaps, but we need to dig deeper and possibly perform experiments to shed more light on this.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While the survey suggests that beekeepers are remaining responsive to the current best management practices and health concerns of their colonies, the loss data shows little progress.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We see in the survey signs that beekeepers are adjusting their practices over time,” said Steinhauer. “We also see that their perception of risk is changing. The level of acceptable loss, which was originally around 15% in earlier years of the survey, has crept up to 23% this year. So that tells us beekeepers are thinking about those factors that affect honey bee health more actively. We also see some beneficial changes in agricultural practices that could affect honey bee health, like changes in spray recommendations. But there are still a lot of issues that are left unaddressed. It seems we’re running to stand still because beekeepers are changing their practices, and yet we still don’t see a clear improvement in their loss rates.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BIP stresses that the lack of improvement in losses is a clear call for more attention and efforts to be paid on finding solutions, especially concerning varroa mites. The BIP annual loss survey continues to be an important part of documenting the data necessary to drive future research, best management practice recommendations, and support for honey bee health.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We hope to continue BIP’s survey effort to record colony losses experienced by U.S. beekeepers and explore beekeepers’ management practices,” said Steinhauer. “We have a general idea of what practices are associated with higher success, but the devil is in the details, and we need to understand why the implementation of some practices are more successful in some cases than others. Of course beekeepers also need the support of the public and political sectors. We need to recreate environments that are conducive to healthy bees, and that will benefit both honey bees and native bees or other wild pollinators.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The survey is conducted by the Bee Informed Partnership with data collected and analyzed by the University of Maryland and Auburn University. Survey results are available here on the Bee Informed Partnership website, with a summary provided below.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams February 8, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The rising frequency of extremely hot temperatures tied to human-caused global heating is creating “climate chaos” that drives widespread declines of bumblebees, some of the planet’s most important pollinators, according to a new study published in the journal Science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Researchers at the University of Ottawa in Canada and University College London in the United Kingdom developed a new measurement of temperature based on species’ heat tolerance. “We have created a new way to predict local extinctions that tells us, for each species individually, whether climate change is creating temperatures that exceed what the bumblebees can handle,” explained study co-author Tim Newbold.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The team applied their technique to data on 66 different bumblebee species across North America and Europe collected from 1901 to 1974 and 2000 to 2014. They concluded that more frequent extreme heat “is increasing local extinction rates, reducing colonization and site occupancy, and decreasing species richness within a region, independent of land-use change or condition.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“<b>We found that populations were disappearing in areas where the temperatures had gotten hotter,”</b> said the study’s lead author, Peter Soroye. “Using our new measurement of climate change, we were able to predict changes both for individual species and for whole communities of bumblebees with a surprisingly high accuracy.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Beepocalypse Myth Handbook: Assessing claims of pollinator collapse</span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">m<span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">yths and truths about bees: There is no ‘catastrophic decline’ in the global honeybee population and the use of pesticides is not driving health problems challenging wild bees, as many environmental groups continue to claim. In fact, honeybee hive populations are rising in North America and globally, and they have been growing in number for years. The companion claim </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</i></span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> that a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids (or neonics for short) are fostering a global honeybee pollinator crisis is also not accurate. However, honeybees and perhaps bumble bees (whose wild nature make them difficult to catalogue) do face a range of health threats that are serious cause for worry, and those issues need to be addressed....

colony Collapse Disorder

The honeybee population did face what appeared to be a crisis in the mid-2000s when some United States’ beekeepers, mostly in California, began discovering that their honeybees had mysteriously abandoned many of their colonies, leaving behind the queen bee, attended by too few, immature worker bees to sustain the colony, yet with ample viable brood and stored food. The first report classified as CCD was in mid-November 2006 by a Pennsylvania beekeeper overwintering in Florida.

By February 2007, large commercial migratory beekeepers wintering in California, Florida, Oklahoma, and Texas had reported heavy losses associated with CCD, with losses ranging from 30% to 90% of their bee colonies. This phenomenon was dubbed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Colony Collapse  Disorder</a> (CCD). What made CCD’s appearance in the United States stunning and alarming was that episodes were being reported from widely separated states across the continent.</span></font><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[poster] At first, genetically modified crops and later neonicotinoid pesticides were fingered by environmental groups and some entomologists as the presumed causal agents. But when the bee colonies were examined, the CCD diagnosis emerged, scientists quickly dispensed of the GMO argument, as each GM crop is different and there is no plausible explanation why a phenomenon noted in one region of the US would not also show up in other regions or countries using similar modified crops.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Did the use of pesticides or neonics in particular cause or contribute to CCD in 2006? The scientific consensus now firmly says ‘no.’ CCD is a historically common occurrence that predated the introduction of genetically modified crops and modern pesticides. Upon further investigation, CCD was shown to be a centuries-old, periodic phenomenon that, by other names, has <a href="http://ento.psu.edu/pollinators/publications/underwood" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">occurred</a> periodically for centuries. in specific locales. Limited occurrences resembling CCD were fully documented as early as 1869 and on the Isle of Wight in the UK in 2006, and also in other parts of Europe and in Egypt. There were reports of similar bee behavior in hives in the US in 1918 and 1919, and thereafter. It eventually became more widely known as “disappearing disease.”</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The focus on neonicotinoids as a contributing factor is more complicated. Neonics are a class of systemic pesticide introduced in the early 1990s and popular in the US, Australia, Europe and elsewhere to protect corn, soy, cotton and canola farmers.<b> They have been embraced as a less toxic replacement of <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/clusters/fallon/organophosfaq.htm" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">organophosphate pesticides</a> (which can be either natural of synthetic),</b> which are known to kill bees and wildlife, and have been linked to health problems in workers. Applied to the soil, sprayed on the crop or, most commonly, used as a seed treatment, neonics are absorbed into the plant, which is ingested by insects, discouraging pests from wreaking havoc on crops. The seed treatment lowers the amount of the neonic used 10- to 20- fold, decreasing the need for open spraying of the plant, a genuine sustainability benefit.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many in the media and activist critical of conventional agriculture often conflate bee health problems linked to CCD with the health issues encountered by the wild honeybee population. From 1972 to 2006, serous reductions in hives were documented among <a title="Feral" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">feral</a> honey bees in the US, and recent studies, though fragmentary, appear to show scattered declines among wild bees.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The precise causes of the most recent CCD incident remains undetermined. Most likely, the <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070906140803.htm" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">combinations</a> of <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070906140803.htm" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">factors</a> that affect honeybee colony health more generally (discussed below) are involved. But CCD has now come and gone, as it has many times over the centuries. According to the University of Maryland’s Dennis van Engelsdorp (who was part of the team that <a href="http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/ccd.pdf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">coined</a> the modern term “CCD”), <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/08/jerry-hayes-how-to-save-the-bees-monsanto/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">no case of CCD</a> has been reported from the field for the last eight years.</font></p><h3 style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2em; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Are honeybees in decline?</font></h3><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Said simply: Honeybees are not on the verge of extinction or irreversible decline and the world will not face mass starvation. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That’s scare rhetoric. As the <u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</u> reported in two separate features in 2015 — ‘<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/call-off-the-bee-pocalypse-u-s-honeybee-colonies-hit-a-20-year-high/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Call Off the Bee-pocalypse: U.S. Honeybee Colonies Hit a 20-Year High’</a> and ‘<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/10/believe-it-or-not-the-bees-are-doing-just-fine" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Believe It of Not, the Bees Are Doing Just Fine</a>’ —</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> advocacy group claims amplified in thousands of news stories, but not all, are wrong. But the direction of the media narrative, like the path of a 250,000 ton ocean liner, was established in the late 2000s, and does not turn that around easily, particularly when the it serves an ideological conclusion that conveniently helps in fundraising for those who promote it. Despite claims to the contrary, according to the independent Bee Informed Partnership, overseen by van Englesdorp, overwinter mortality of honeybees has steadily declined since the 2006 CCD peak.</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">In fact, honeybee populations aren’t declining anywhere in the world, despite many media headlines; they’re rising.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> According to statistics kept by the US Department of Agriculture, Statistics Canada and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, honeybee populations in the </span><a href="http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1191" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">United States</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">, </span><a href="http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=0010007&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&1&p2=31&tabMode=dataTable&csid" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Canada</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> and </span><a href="http://faostat3.fao.org/download/Q/QA/E" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Europe</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> have been stable or growing for the two decades</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> neonics </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">have been on the market. Furthermore, the </span><a href="http://faostat3.fao.org/download/Q/QA/E" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">worldwide trajectory</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> for bee colonies has been on an upward trajectory for over half a century. Here are a few charts that illustrate the upward global trends that overlap the introduction and use since the mid 1990s of neonics, the central target of anti-chemical environmental groups....[chart of HIVES]...</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">
</span></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LOMBORGIAN CHERRYPICK? LOWEST AMT BUT MORE TOXIC?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">he parasite poses unique challenges to beekeepers and scientists. It </span><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190114161137.htm" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">sucks</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> bees’ liver-like organ called the ‘fat body’, </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214574515000863" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">compromises</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">their immune system, and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><a href="http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/floyd_county/bee-farm-seeks-ways-to-preserve-pollinators/article_4a7f7a8d-5ea0-5935-8b17-38b365934fad.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">vectors</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">more than a dozen viruses into bee colonies,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><a href="http://www.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates#.VMlOzmR4r9c" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">making diseases virulent</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">that would normally be controllable. Making matters worse,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><a href="http://scientificbeekeeping.com/fighting-varroa-the-silver-bullet-or-brass-knuckles-2/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa</em> rapidly develop resistance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">to different mite treatments, making control difficult. Resistance in turn prompts the wide use of bee-toxic mite-control pesticides—the most prevalent chemicals found in beehives—where they</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><a href="http://scientificbeekeeping.com/sick-bees-part-18f7-colony-collapse-revisited-pesticide-exposure/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">accumulate</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">in beeswax. In virtually any residue analysis of bee bread or beeswax these days in any country with varroa, the most prevalent toxins are the beekeeper-applied varroacides.”</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">
</span></font></div><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A study by <a href="https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-016-3130-3" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Purdue University scientists</a> indicates that European honeybees may face a new and more dangerous <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa</span> threat in the near future. Another species<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa jacobsoni</span>, up to now solely a predator of the Asian honeybee (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Apis ceranae</span>)<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</span></span>has demonstrated the ability to switch hosts to the European honeybee (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Apis mellifera</span>), just as the <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa destructor </span>mite did 60 years ago. So far, this genetic adaptation of the <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa jacobsoni</span> mite has been observed only in Papua New Guinea. But the <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa destructor</span> scourge also originated in Asia and, thanks to global commerce, spread rapidly to every continent except Australia, sending honeybee populations plummeting and blighting the beekeeping industry worldwide for at least three decades now.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other pathogens, notably the gut fungus <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Nosema ceranae, </span>are also major health challenges to honeybee hives. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-016-0431-0" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Recent research</a> by a team led by Kristin Traynor and including van Engelsdorp and the USDA’s Jeff Pettis has demonstrated that <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa</span>  are more prevalent in US bee colonies than previously believed.  As van Engelsdorp has <a href="https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/3515" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">explained</a>, “We knew that <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa</em> was a problem, but it seems to be an even bigger problem than we first thought. …  Moreover, varroa’s ability to spread viruses presents a more dire situation than we suspected.”</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Environmental activists focus single-mindedly on pesticides. But, of all the agricultural chemicals detected in honeybee hives, including the miticides beekeepers use to control </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">varroa</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> infestations, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/02/17/bee-pocalypse-myth-faces-rebuke-europe-appears-poised-overturn-neonicotinoid-pesticides-ban/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">neonics</a> are<b> generally </b>among the <a href="https://www.minnpost.com/inside-minnpost/2015/03/pollinators-peril-full-house-turns-out-experts-insights" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">lowest trace amounts detected</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">. Other factors</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</i></span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">poor nutrition, stemming from diminishing availability of varied, clean forage; the dwindling genetic diversity of European honeybees; and almost three dozen other parasites, viruses, bacteria and diseases</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</i></span><a href="https://tdaynard.com/2015/01/02/what-killed-ontario-bees-last-winter-2/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">all make it difficult</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> to sustain healthy honeybee hives.,,,</span></font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="col-md-9 col-article col-blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 60px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 727.5px; padding-top: 20px;"><main id="main" class="site-main" role="main" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><article id="post-2254" class="post-2254 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-food-for-thought category-our-investigations tag-sense-about-science tag-trevor-butterworth" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://usrtk.org/food-for-thought/trevor-butterworth-spins-science-for-industry/" title="9:44 pm" rel="bookmark" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">January 22, 2018</a></span><span class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span>by <span class="author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="url fn n" href="https://usrtk.org/author/stacymalkan/" title="View all posts by Stacy Malkan" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Stacy Malkan</a></span></span></font></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trevor Butterworth and his colleagues at <b>Sense About Science/STATS</b> have written for prominent news outlets and been quoted as independent experts on science and media.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This fact sheet provides evidence that these groups and writers have<b> long histories of using tobacco tactics to manufacture doubt about science and push for deregulation of products important to the chemical, drug and junk food industries.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related groups: <a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-industrys-master-messenger/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jon Entine/Genetic Literacy Project</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/science-media-centre/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Science Media Center</a>, <a href="https://theecologist.org/2016/jan/22/why-cornell-university-hosting-gmo-propaganda-campaign" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Cornell Alliance for Science</a></font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overview</font></span></h4><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/72-Document-Details-Monsantos-Strategy-Regarding-IARC.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">This <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Monsanto document</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> describe<b>s Sense About Science as a “Tier 2 Industry Partner”</b> in Monsanto’s <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/how-monsanto-manufactured-outrage-at-iarc-over-cancer-classification/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">PR plan to discredit</a> the World Health Organization’s cancer panel, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). </span></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Monsanto plan proposes <b>Sense About Science for “leads industry response and provides platform for IARC observers and industry spokesperson</b>.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/statistical-assessment-service" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Statistical Assessment Service</a> (STATS) <a href="http://senseaboutscienceusa.org/stats/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">merged with</a> Sense About Science USA in 2014</b>. Journalists have reported STATS is a “<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/30/pharmaceutical-industry-fake-news-tobacco/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">disinformation campaign</a>” that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">tips the scales toward industry</a> and plays a key role for the chemical industry in the  “<a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195297.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">hardball politics of chemical regulation</a>.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sense About Science, STATS and its former parent group, the Center for Media and Public Affairs, have <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">roots in the tobacco industry PR wars</a> and have received funding from anti-regulatory foundations, dark money channels and industries they have defended.</font></li></ul><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intercept Exposé on Sense About Science: Reporters Be Wary</font></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">A <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">November 2016 exposé in The Intercept,</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> “Seeding Doubt: How Self Appointed Guardians of ‘Sound Science’ Tip the Scales Toward Industry,” details the tobacco ties and industry connections of Sense About Science.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Sense About Science claims to champion transparency” but “does not always disclose when its sources on controversial matters are scientists with ties to the industries under examination,” wrote Liza Gross. “When journalists rightly ask who sponsors research into the risks of, say, asbestos, or synthetic chemicals, they’d be well advised to question the evidence Sense About Science presents in these debates as well.”</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History of Defending Chemicals, Junk Food and Drugs </font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sense About Science was founded as a lobby group in the UK in 2002 by Dick Taverne, an English politician and businessman with <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">ties to the tobacco industry</a> and other industries Sense About Science has defended.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.senseaboutscienceusa.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The<b> US version of the group</b></a><b> launched in 2014 in Brooklyn under the directorship of Trevor Butterworth</b>. From 2003 to 2014, Butterworth was an editor at <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/statistical-assessment-service" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">STATS,</a> which is now <a href="http://senseaboutscienceusa.org/stats/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">merged with Sense About Science USA.</a> </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Over his career, Butterworth has amassed a large body of work arguing for deregulation and attacking scientists and journalists who raise concerns about products important to the chemical, junk food and drug industries — for example<b> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/18/plastic-gender-study-media-opinions-contributors-trevor-butterworth.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">phthalates</a>, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2014/04/09/bpa-the-scientists-the-scare-the-100-million-dollar-surge/#23693c3163c3" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">BPA</a>, <a href="http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20081005/news/810050333" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">vinyl plastic</a>, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisprandoni/2015/03/05/when-the-left-peddles-bad-science/#46b570db425d" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">fracking</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/fashion/28skin.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">lead in lipstick</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/fashion/28skinside.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">formaldehyde in baby soaps</a>, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2014/02/06/sweet-and-sour-the-media-decided-fructose-was-bad-for-america-but-science-had-second-thoughts/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">corn syrup</a>, <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2012/10/the-sugar-wars" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">sugary sodas,</a> <a href="http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sweetener-sucralose-probably-doesnt-cause-leukaemia/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">artificial sweeteners</a> and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2012/12/13/is-the-era-of-oxycontin-abuse-over/#48877cb773a8" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Oxycontin.</a></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Butterworth is also a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-butterworth-522b5048/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">visiting fellow</a> at <b>Cornell University Alliance for Science</b>, a communications campaign housed at Cornell University that is funded by the Gates Foundation to <a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2986952/why_is_cornell_university_hosting_a_gmo_propaganda_campaign.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">promote GMOs.</a></span> Butterworth runs <a href="http://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/qa-sense-about-science-usa-partnership" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">a workshop at Cornell</a> to teach his brand of media relations to students and young scientists.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Rebecca Goldin,</b> a professor of mathematics of George Mason University, is the Director of STATS and appears on the Sense About Science USA <a href="http://senseaboutscienceusa.org/who-we-are/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">staff page</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STATS was previously housed at George Mason University and filed joint tax returns with the <b>Center of Media and Public Affairs (CMPA), a group that was hired by Phillip Morris in the 1990s to <a href="https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=hhyh0062" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">pick apart media reports about tobacco</a>. </b>STATS and CMPA have been vague about their funding.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The bulk of <a href="https://usrtk.org/food-for-thought/trevor-butterworth-spins-science-for-industry/#STATSfunding" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">funding for STATS</a> appears to have come from a small group of anti-regulatory foundations that are leading funders of climate change denier groups.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OxyContin Defense<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The tactics of Butterworth, Goldin and <span class="il" style="box-sizing: border-box;">STATS</span> are evident in their work to defend Oxycontin; they wrote articles denying the problem of <b>doctor-prescribed opioid addiction,</b> criticized media coverage and argued against regulations to reign in prescriptions. See articles in <b><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2012/12/13/is-the-era-of-oxycontin-abuse-over/#48877cb773a8" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2012/12/13/is-the-era-of-oxycontin-abuse-over/%2348877cb773a8&source=gmail&ust=1521228826414000&usg=AFQjCNFZah-BIWab4bO7o94-GrBjGwpe3A" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Forbes</a> </b>(Butterworth), <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140702203653/http://www.stats.org/stories/2012/attack_painkillers_misusing_statistics_jan31_12.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://stats.org/&source=gmail&ust=1521228826414000&usg=AFQjCNHqzXV35UtO44M3S2tIKPQgcyP6Rw" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="il" style="box-sizing: border-box;">STATS</span><wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" />.org</a> (Goldin), and <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-addiction-is-a-huge-problem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-addiction-is-a-huge-problem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/?wt.mc%3DSA_Twitter-Share&source=gmail&ust=1521228826414000&usg=AFQjCNHSRJ5xB5K2--C9MWv7qbj1TVZH8Q" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Scientific American</a>, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/the-medias-not-telling-th_b_48239.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/the-medias-not-telling-th_b_48239.html&source=gmail&ust=1521228826414000&usg=AFQjCNEWehL8WSruZKadqHIsbvruor4G_A" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Huffington Post</a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2004/03/the_accidental_addict.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2004/03/the_accidental_addict.html&source=gmail&ust=1521228826414000&usg=AFQjCNFiEVzeBM1CryeMsl6AMOp_LNT86w" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Slate</a> (former <span class="il" style="box-sizing: border-box;">STATS</span> Fellow Maia Szavalitz). </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new analysis by <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/11/health/prescription-opioid-payments-eprise/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/11/health/prescription-opioid-payments-eprise/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1521228826414000&usg=AFQjCNGGfYtmEmYxcMYmPf8-uDDerOCJyA" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Harvard researchers and CNN</a> found that doctor opioid prescriptions are indeed a problem: “opioid manufacturers are paying physicians huge sums of money, and the more opioids a doctor prescribes, the more money he or she makes.”</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Science Denial</font></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">A 2002 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Aint-Necessarily-So-Picture-Reality/dp/0142001465" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">book</a> by STATS/CMPA founder Robert Lichter, David Murray of STATS and Joel Schwartz of the Hudson Institute denied climate science, among other science stories, and employed many “disingenuous maneuvers” to attack the media, including omitting findings that didn’t fit their agenda and using shallow statistical analyses</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">, according to a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170313025504/http://www.salon.com:80/2001/07/02/murray_4" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">review in Salon by David Appell</a>. <b>Paraphrasing the book, Appell wrote: “Are you worried about species dying out as a result of global warming? Don’t. Those scare stories are the doing of green scribblers who cherry-pick the scientific journals for alarming factoids and who work in cahoots with Volvo-driving scientists who skew their results in an effort to oppose progress and capitalism.”</b> See below for more information about <a href="https://usrtk.org/food-for-thought/trevor-butterworth-spins-science-for-industry/#STATSfunding" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">STATS’ funding</a> from the climate change denial dark money network.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chemical Industry Public Relations Writer</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sense About Science USA Director Trevor Butterworth played a <b>key role in the chemical industry’s propaganda campaign to discredit health concerns about the chemical bisphenol A (BPA)</b> when he was at STATS</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">, according to a 2009 <a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195297.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">investigation</a> by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Journalists Meg Kissinger and Susanne Rust described Butterworth as an example of “chemical industry public relations writers” who do not explain their allegiances. They described the <b>stealth role he played in industry’s “unprecedented public relations blitz that uses many of the same tactics – and people – the tobacco industry used in its decades-long fight against regulation</b>”:</font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The most impassioned defense of BPA on the blogs comes from Trevor Butterworth… He regularly combs the Internet for stories about BPA and offers comments without revealing his ties to industry.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In companion article, Kissinger and Rust <a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195302.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">described STATS</a> as “a major player in the public relations campaign to discredit concerns” about BPA. Although the group, “claims to be an independent media watchdog,” they wrote:</font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“a review of its finances and its Web site shows that STATS is funded by public policy organizations that promote deregulation. The Journal Sentinel found documents that show that its parent organization, the Center for Media and Public Affairs, was paid in the 1990s by Philip Morris, the tobacco company, to pick apart stories critical of smoking.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They noted that Butterworth’s 27,000-word STATS report criticizing media coverage of BPA – which was widely featured on plastic industry websites – “echoed the approach used in the tobacco analysis.”</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Friend” of Coke</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">n 2014, a Coca-Cola executive described Butterworth as “our friend” to members of a Coke-funded front group, and pitched him as a person who could help fulfill their “need for good scientific journalists</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">,” according to emails <a href="https://usrtk.org/gmo/our-investigation-of-big-food-and-its-front-groups/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">obtained by U.S. Right to Know</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The email exchanges involved Rhona Applebaum, then-chief science and health officer for Coca-Cola, and the leaders of the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), which was exposed by <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The New York Times</a> and <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/11/24/apnewsbreak-emails-reveal-cokes-role-in-anti-obesity-group" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Associated Press</a> as a Coca-Cola front group that worked closely with Coke executives to shift blame for obesity away from sugary drinks.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Applebaum <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-24/coca-cola-s-chief-science-officer-retires-after-obesity-outcry" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">resigned her position</a> at Coke and <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/research-group-funded-by-coca-cola-to-disband/?r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">GEBN closed down</a> after the scandal broke in 2015.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/GEBN-Butterworth-march-2014.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">March 2014 email</a>, Applebaum forwarded the GEBN leaders a Harvard Business Review <a href="https://hbr.org/2014/03/when-research-should-come-with-a-warning-label" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">article by Butterworth</a> that attempts to discredit research linking sugar to weight gain, and described him as “our friend.” In a <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/GEBN-Butterworth-Nov-2014.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">November 2014 email chain</a>, Applebaum and the GEBN leaders discussed the need to recruit scientific institutions and get more scientists “on the circuit.” Applebaum recommended “the need for good scientific journalists as part of GEBN who focus on the evidence. Presenting for consideration Trevor Butterworth. Need that type of cross-fertilization.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GEBN vice president Steven Blair wrote, “I agree with Rhona about Trevor. I am pretty sure he is on my list of potential members.” Applebaum replied, “He’s ready and able.”</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ally of Many Industry Groups</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Butterworth’s extensive writings defending chemicals, sugar and sugar substitutes have attracted the praise of many industry groups over the years.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trade groups that have promoted Butterworth’s work include the <b><a href="http://www.ameribev.org/blog/tag/trevor-butterworth/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">American Beverage Association</a>, the <a href="https://phthalates.americanchemistry.com/Research-Phthalates/Reproductive-Studies/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">American Chemistry Council</a></b>, the <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131010006601/en/Journalistic-Imbalance-USA-Today-Continues-Report-Selectively" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">North American Metal Packaging Alliance</a>, the <a href="http://www.bottledwater.org/health/container-safety/what-is-bpa" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">International Bottled Water Association</a>, the <a href="http://sucralose-org.co.uk/2011-international-sweeteners-association-conference-consensus-experts-recommend-low-calorie-sweeteners-such-as-sucralose-to-help-manage-weight/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">International Sweeteners Association,</a> the <a href="http://spotidoc.com/doc/355374/2014-food-packaging-summit---society-of-the-plastics-indu..." style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Plastics Industry Trade Association</a>, the <a href="http://www.ctpa.org.uk/content.aspx?pageid=273" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">cosmetics industry trade association</a>, the chemical industry’s <a href="http://www.safechemicalpolicy.org/suggests/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">policy website</a>, the <b><a href="https://cei.org/search/node/trevor%20butterworth" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Competitive Enterprises Institute</a>, the <a href="https://www.cato.org/events/cato-connects-trevor-butterworth-director-sense-about-science-usa" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Cato Institute</a> and the <a href="https://www.consumerfreedom.com/2014/04/anti-bpa-crusaders-baseless-fearmongering/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Center for Consumer Freedom</a>.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-the-american-council-on-science-and-health/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">American Council on Science and Health</a>, an industry front group that <a href="http://acsh.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=butterworth" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">frequently promotes</a> Butterworth’s work, has described him as “a master junk science debunker” and also “our friend.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Butterworth is also listed as <a href="http://nationalpress.org/about-npf/funders/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">a friend</a> of</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>National Press Foundation</b>. The chair of Sense About Science USA, <a href="http://www.senseaboutscienceusa.org/about/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Heather Dahl</a>, is “<a href="http://nationalpress.org/board/heather-dahl/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">immediate past chair</a>” of the National Press Foundation, and sits on NPF’s executive committee.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sucralose Echo Chamber</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Butterworth is a prominent defender of artificial sweeteners whose safety is questionable. In 2011, Butterworth spoke at the International Sweeteners Association Conference and was featured in their <a href="http://sucralose-org.co.uk/2011-international-sweeteners-association-conference-consensus-experts-recommend-low-calorie-sweeteners-such-as-sucralose-to-help-manage-weight/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">press release</a> titled, “Experts Recommend Low-Calorie Sweeteners such as Sucralose to Help Manage Weight.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Identified as a journalist who regularly contributes to the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, Butterworth said about sucralose, “The weight of considered scientific evidence, the result of careful, independent, expert scrutiny, again and again shows that there is no evidence of a risk to health.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As an example of how the industry echo chamber works to spin reporters: In 2012, Butterworth <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2012/04/24/controversial-italian-scientist-says-splenda-causes-cancer/#6188ef4856cc" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">wrote an article for Forbes</a> attacking a study that raised concerns about sucralose by Dr. Morando Soffritti, director of the Ramazzini Institute, which he described as “something of a joke.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a 2016 <a href="http://www.foodinsight.org/splenda-sucralose-ramazzini-soffritti-safety-cancer-study" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">press release</a>, in response to another Soffritti study, the food industry front group <a href="http://webiva-downton.s3.amazonaws.com/877/fe/a/6001/FOE_Top11FrontGroups_1.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">International Food Information Council</a> featured Butterworth’s 2012 piece and attack quotes, and they were picked up by reporters at the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/splenda-sucralose-sweeteners-linked-to-leukemia-in-new-study-a6930556.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Independent</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3491310/Could-artificial-sweeteners-Splenda-trigger-cancer-Experts-warn-s-no-safe-dose.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Daily Mail</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/12192163/Low-calorie-sweetener-linked-with-increased-risk-of-leukemia-study.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Telegraph</a> and <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865647310/Consumer-group-sounds-new-alarm-on-Splenda.html?pg=all" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Deseret News</a>, all of whom identified Butterworth as a source from Forbes.<a id="STATSfunding" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a id="STATSfunding" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Google search for the Ramazzini Institute turns up Butterworth’s 2012 Forbes hit piece as the first item.</font></a></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a id="STATSfunding" style="outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funded by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Climate Change Denier Dark Money Network</span></font></span></a></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a id="STATSfunding" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>While STATS claims to be nonpartisan, the bulk of funding has come from a handful of conservative, anti-regulatory foundations that have played a key role in funding organizations that try to discredit climate science.</b></font></a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a id="STATSfunding" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Intercept investigation</a>:</font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Between 1998 and 2014, STATS received $4.5 million, 81 percent of its donations, from the Searle Freedom Trust, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, Donors Trust (a fund largely sustained by Charles Koch), and other right-wing foundations. Searle, which <a href="http://www.searlefreedomtrust.org/daniel-c-searle-1926-2007/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">describes its mission</a> as promoting ‘economic liberties,’ gave STATS $959,000 between 2010 and 2014.</font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Anti-regulatory foundations, including these, spent over half a billion dollars between 2003 and 2010 to ‘manipulate and mislead the public over the nature of climate science and the threat posed by climate change,’ according to a 2013 study by Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the <a href="http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2013/december/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">press release</a> about his study, Brulle identified the Scaife and Searle foundations as among “the largest and most consistent funders of organizations orchestrating climate change denial” and foundations that “promote ultra-free-market ideas in many realms.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The<b> Scaife Foundation and Searle Freedom Trust have been key funders of STATS, with Scaife providing nearly all funding for the group between 2005 to 2007,</b>according to a Greenpeace <a href="http://polluterwatch.com/jon-entine" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">investigation of STATS funding</a>, and Searle stepping up with almost a million dollars in funding between 2010 and 2014.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> President and CEO of Searle Freedom Trust, <a href="http://donorscapitalfund.org/AboutUs/KimberlyDennis.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Kimberly Dennis</a>, is also chairman of the board of directors of Donors Trust, the group Mother Jones called the “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">dark-money ATM of the conservative movement</a>,” and a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">leading funder</a> of climate change denier and skeptic organizations. Under Dennis’s leadership, the Searle Foun</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dation and Donors Trust sent a collective $290,000 to STATS in 2010, Greenpeace <a href="http://polluterwatch.com/jon-entine" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">reported</a>.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch Industries / George Mason University Foundation</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charles Koch, CEO of the petrochemical conglomerate Koch Industries, gave over $100 million to 361 college campuses from 2005 to 2014, according to a Greenpeace <a href="http://polluterwatch.org/charles-koch-university-funding-database" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">analysis of IRS filings</a>. The <b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connor-gibson/to-charles-koch-professor_b_9100904.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">George Mason University Foundation</a>, which received $45.5 million, was by far the largest beneficiary of this largesse</b>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Students at GMU raised concerns about Koch funding <a href="http://powershift.org/blogs/gmu-students-question-koch-funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">in a 2014 letter</a> to the GMU president, noting that the university has been “criticized as being a subsidiary of Koch Industries.” In response to a public records request for information about Koch funding, the students “were told that <b>all financial donations are funneled through the GMU Foundation, which does not have to respond to our FOIA request as a distinct private entity.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The GMU Foundation funded STATS sister organization CMPA $220,990 <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GMUF2012.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">in 2012</a>, and $75,670 <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GMUF2013.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">in 2013</a>, according to tax records. In those years CMPA also helped finance STATS. <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/CMPA-2012.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">In 2012</a>, STATS reported a $203,611 loan from CMPA that “due to inadequate funding” has “not been reimbursed.” <a href="https://usrtk.org/sas2013-2/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">In 2013</a>, STATS reported a loan from CMPA for $163,914.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tax records for<b> 2014 </b>show no loans between the groups or donations from GMU Foundation. <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CMPA2014-.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">CMPA’s 2014 tax filing </a>shows compensation of $97,512 for Butterworth and<b>$173,100 for Jon Entine</b>, a longtime <a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-industrys-master-messenger/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">public relations operative with deep ties to the chemical industry</a>, who runs the <a href="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/author/trevor-butterworth/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Genetic Literacy Project</a>, an <a href="http://polluterwatch.com/jon-entine" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">agrichemical industry front group</a>.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wholly Independent?</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STATS now shares a website with Sense About Science USA, and provides this <a href="http://www.stats.org/about/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">note about funding</a>:</font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“<b>STATS.org is run by Sense About Science USA; it is funded grants from the Searle Freedom Trust and a donation from the American Statistical Association</b>. </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sense About Science USA is funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> and donations from members of the public. Sense About Science USA does not accept industry funding or support. <b>Sense About Science USA is wholly independent of any university, society, or other organization.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="http://www.senseaboutscienceusa.org/donate/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">website conveys</a> a sense of grassroots support, noting that its<b> campaign calling for the registration of clinical drug trials has drawn 30,000 donors.</b> “We don’t have fancy offices. Sense About Science USA is in the back of a bakery and cafe. We put our money into doing, and every little bit helps.”</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tobacco Ties</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both STATS and Sense About Science have roots in the tobacco industry PR wars.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STATS and CMPA were founded by Robert Lichter, PhD, a former Fox news commentator and professor of communications at GMU. <b>Phillip Morris contracted with CMPA and Lichter during the 1990s, according to documents from the Tobacco Institute made available by the UCSF tobacco industry documents library.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 1994, Phillip Morris sought CMPA’s help dealing with the “recent onslaught of attacks on the tobacco industry” in the media, according to an <a href="https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=hhyh0062" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">internal memo</a> proposing strategies to “refocus the media’s attention on the need for objectivity.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an <b>email dated February 8, 1999, Phillip Morris vice president Vic Han referred to CMPA as “a media watchdog group that we have contributed to over the last several years,</b>” the <a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195302.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a> reported.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The founder of Sense About Science, Dick Taverne, also appears in the UCSF tobacco industry files. As Liza Gross explains in <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Intercept</a>:</font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to internal documents released in litigation by cigarette manufacturers, Taverne’s consulting company, PRIMA Europe, helped British American Tobacco <a href="https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=tllb0192" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">improve relations with its investors</a> and <a href="https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=njpd0116" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">beat European regulations on cigarettes</a> in the 1990s.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taverne himself worked on the investors project: In an <a href="https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=tllb0192?" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">undated memo</a>, PRIMA assured the tobacco company that ‘the work would be done personally by Dick Taverne,’ because he was well placed to interview industry opinion leaders and ‘would seek to ensure that industry’s needs are foremost in people’s minds.’</font></p><p class="indent-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px 40px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>During the same decade, Taverne sat on the board of the British branch of the powerhouse public relations firm Burson-Marsteller,</b> which claimed Philip Morris as a client. The idea for a “sound science” group, made up of a network of scientists who would speak out against regulations that industrial spokespeople lacked the credibility to challenge, was a pitch Burson-Marsteller made to Philip Morris in a <a href="https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=ygjm0128" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">1994 memorandum</a>.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Taverne stepped down as chairman of Sense About Science in 2012</b>. Sense About Science USA launched in 2014 in Brooklyn under the direction of Butterworth. The two groups are described as sister organizations with “close ties and similar aims.”</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exposing ‘Bogus Science’ Through the Living Marxism Network </font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lord Taverne founded Sense About Science in 2002 to “expose bogus science,” according to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ghSuAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT195&lpg=PT195&dq=%22dick+taverne%22+AND+%22bogus+science%22&source=bl&ots=OZGR2OtqVb&sig=xeCz8LvmrEYtwmqnk2HrOD0_15o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQkNHXx93PAhUFwVQKHQkxBIcQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=%22dick%20taverne%22%20AND%20%22bogus%20science%22&f=false" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">his memoir</a>. As Liza Gross explained in <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Intercept</a>, early sponsors of the group included some of Taverne’s former business clients and companies in which he owned stock.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As its first projects, Sense About Science organized a letter from <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/news/archive/2003/5134-these-are-the-scientists-who-wrote-to-blair" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">114 scientists</a> lobbying the British government to “contradict false claims” about GMOs, and <a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/vandalism-devastates-britains/14207" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">conducted a survey</a> highlighting the problem of vandalism against GMO crops.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2000, Taverne helped create the “<a href="http://www.sirc.org/publik/cop_guidelines_q.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Code of Practice: Guidelines on Science and Health Communication</a>,” a manifesto from the Social Institute Research Center and the <b>Royal Institution </b>on the </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">procedures journalists and scientists should use to avoid unjustified “scare stories” in the media.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Guidelines were the foundational document for Sense About Science and its sister organization, the <a href="http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/science_media_centers_the_pres.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Science Media Centre</a>, a group that has been called <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/science-media-centre-of-attention-1.13362" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">“science’s PR agency.”</a> </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Partly funded by corporations, the Science Media Centre often promotes the views of scientists who downplay risk about controversial technologies and chemicals, and its earliest work involved <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2002/jun/02/gm.observersciencepages" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">defending GMOs using stealth tactics</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As writers <a href="http://www.monbiot.com/2003/12/09/invasion-of-the-entryists/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">George Monbiot</a>, <a href="http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/268982/sense_about_science.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Zac Goldsmith</a>, <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=151" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jonathan Matthews</a> and others have documented, both Sense About Science and the Science Media Centre originated from and are directed by a network of people connected to the <b>Revolutionary Communist Party, which later morphed into <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=78" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Living Marxism</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000607160440/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM97/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">LM magazine</a>, <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Spiked Magazine</a> and the <a href="http://www.instituteofideas.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Institute of Ideas</a></b>, which promote an idealized vision of technology, extreme free-market views and <a href="http://www.monbiot.com/1998/11/01/far-left-or-far-right/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">disdain for environmentalists</a>.[// USA]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As <a href="http://www.monbiot.com/2003/12/09/invasion-of-the-entryists/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Monbiot wrote</a> in 2003, “the scientific establishment, always politically naive, appears unwittingly to have permitted its interests to be represented to the public by the members of a bizarre and cultish political network.”</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further reading:</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/how-self-appointed-guardians-of-sound-science-tip-the-scales-toward-industry/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>The Intercept</a>: How Self-Appointed Guardians of ‘Sound Science’ Tip the Scales Toward Industry</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/09/how-lobbyists-are-spinning-weak-science-to-defend-bpa/245657/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Atlantic</a>: How Lobbyists are Spinning Weak Science to Defend BPA</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/bpa_health_and_nuance.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Columbia Journalism Review</a>: BPA, Health and Nuance: STATS report criticizes media coverage but has its own faults</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/11/industry-reacts-to-consumer-reports-bpa-report/index.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Consumer Reports</a>: Industry Reacts to Consumer Reports BPA Report</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.cjr.org/analysis/statistical_advisory_board.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">CJR</a>: Meet the man who wants to help journalists with numbers</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-industrys-master-messenger/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">USRTK</a>: Jon Entine: The Chemical Industry’s Master Messenger</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2986952/why_is_cornell_university_hosting_a_gmo_propaganda_campaign.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">The Ecologist</a>: Why is Cornell University Hosting a GMO Propaganda Campaign?</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More on funders:</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifemain050299.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</a>: Scaife: Funding Father of the Right</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2013/december/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Drexel University</a>: Not Just the Koch Brothers: New Drexel Study Reveals Funders Behind the Climate Change Denial Effort</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scaife-family-foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">DeSmog Blog</a>: Scaife Family Foundations</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/14789" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">DeSmog Blog</a>: Charles G. Koch; Richard Mellon Sciafe; Searle Freedom Trust; Donors Trust: Study Details Dark Money Flowing to Climate Science Denial..."><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/613470e79eb64a5f9a4880996e0fd7c5/george-mason-university-becomes-favorite-charles-koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Associated Press</a>: George Mason University Becomes a Favorite of Charles Koc http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connor-gibson/to-charles-koch-professor_b_9100904.html...

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Explosively, he says one of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Syngenta's</span> chief scientists has threatened to have him lynched and his family raped.</font></span></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eKlvZxSvfa0J:https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/03/10/did-the-new-yorker-botch-puff-piece-on-frog-scientist-tyrone-hayes-turning-rogue-into-beleaguered-hero/+&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:eKlvZxSvfa0J:https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/03/10/did-the-new-yorker-botch-puff-piece-on-frog-scientist-tyrone-hayes-turning-rogue-into-beleaguered-hero/%2B%26cd%3D15%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwji7NqqiaLkAhVijK0KHYENCJEQIDAOegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"></font></a></font></font></div><div style=""><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: " droid="Droid" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" px="px" background="background" none="none" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eKlvZxSvfa0J:https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/03/10/did-the-new-yorker-botch-puff-piece-on-frog-scientist-tyrone-hayes-turning-rogue-into-beleaguered-hero/+&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:eKlvZxSvfa0J:https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/03/10/did-the-new-yorker-botch-puff-piece-on-frog-scientist-tyrone-hayes-turning-rogue-into-beleaguered-hero/%2B%26cd%3D15%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwji7NqqiaLkAhVijK0KHYENCJEQIDAOegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">One of the highest-profile of these new food crusaders is Vani Hari, better known by her online moniker, Food Babe. Among her victories: a petition that nudged Kraft to drop the </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/01/242412024/kraft-dims-that-mac-and-cheese-artificially-orange-glow" target="blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">artificial orange color</a> from its mac and cheese, and another one that helped get Subway to do away with the<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272455631/subway-phasing-out-bread-additive-after-blogger-flags-health-concerns" target="blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">common bread additive azodicarbonamide</a> — which Hari noted was also used in making yoga mats.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: " droid="Droid" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" px="px" background="background" none="none" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To followers on her <a href="http://foodbabe.com/" target="blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">website</a> and on social media, who are known as the Food Babe Army, Hari is a hero. And with a book and TV development deal in the works, her platform is about to get a lot bigger.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: " droid="Droid" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" px="px" background="background" none="none" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But as her profile grows, so too do the criticisms of her approach. Detractors, many of them academics, say she stokes unfounded fears about what’s in our food to garner publicity. Steve Novella, a Yale neuroscientist and prominent pseudoscience warrior, among others, has dubbed Hari the “Jenny McCarthy of food” after the celebrity known for championing thoroughly debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: " droid="Droid" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" px="px" background="background" none="none" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The message of Hari’s campaigns boils down to “this toxic secret thing they are putting in my food is making me [sick],” says <a href="http://foodscience.psu.edu/directory/jnc3" target="blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">John Coupland</a>, a food scientist at Penn State.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: " droid="Droid" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" px="px" background="background" none="none" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I personally think this is largely a distraction from more real concerns” about the food system, says Coupland. Problems, he says, like advertising aimed at kids, the environmental impacts of food production, food waste and hunger.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: " droid="Droid" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" px="px" background="background" none="none" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">Read full, original article</strong>: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics" target="blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">Is The Food Babe A Fearmonger? 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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently on the Huffington Post we came across a disturbing article – an attack by Jeffrey Smith on two respected university professors who apply a critical eye to the claims made by various advocates alleging dangers to human health linked to genetically modified organisms (GMOs.) 2015-04-01-1427906926-6335062-HuffPoheadline.png</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith, if you are not familiar with him, heads up a one-man band rabidly anti-GMO organization known as the Institute for Responsible Technology–he and his organization are controversial to say the least, but more on that later.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The subject of the attack piece was co-written by University of Illinois emeritus professor Bruce Chassy and University of Melbourne geneticist David Tribe. It appears on the website of AcademicsReview, an independent non-profit set up by the scholars to address the maelstrom of misinformation that passes for debate on the GMO issue. In one of their most pointed and heavily circulated critiques, Chassy and Tribe examine one of Smith’s two self-published books that supposedly ‘prove’ that GMO foods are reckless and dangerous.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chassy and Tribe’s critique titled “Yogic Flying and GM Foods: The Wild Theories of Jeffrey Smith,” addressed each of the 65 major claims Smith makes about the safety of GMOs, using peer reviewed research and fact-based evidence to refute every one.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith’s response in the Huffington Post defends his claims by citing the example of the FLAVR SAVR™ tomato. Let’s take a closer look at Smith’s “new” claims. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is not clear why, in 2015, Smith would choose to mount an argument claiming dangers from “GMOs” based on an obsolete tomato variety developed more than 25 years ago that has been off the market for two decades. But Smith chose to defend his mistaken and falsified claims that the Food and Drug Administration had botched its review of the tomato and suppressed warnings from its staff about alleged dangers.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first thing to note is that three of Smith’s ten embedded links to comments by FDA officials supposedly casting doubt on the safety of the tomato or the review process don’t work. In any case, what Smith leaves out is worth noting.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The FLAVR SAVR™ tomato, developed by Calgene, was the first “bioengineered” food ever reviewed by FDA. At that time FDA had no formalized process for such reviews, so, typically, officials bent over backwards to make sure they didn’t miss anything that might be important or relevant.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among other things, FDA scientists did not yet have a clear view of what kind of tests were needed to ensure safety and much of the back and forth among agency scientists that Smith argues is evidence of corruption and bad faith is, in context, simply and obviously, the record of folks trying to figure out how to get it right. This is evident to those who read the documents without presupposing conspiracies and evil intent. Read through the documents Smith cites yourself and see what you think. But read them all, from beginning to end; don’t short cut. The full, boring, bureaucratic context is, in fact, the essential point.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith refers to a selected compilation (i.e. “cherry picked”) of FDA documents he claims supports his case. The specific “smoking gun” supposedly proving the dangers of this tomato is that in a total of 39 studies involving 456 rats, 12 animals fed the tomatoes showed “erosions” in their digestive tracts. The question is whether these were caused by eating the tomatoes, or by something else, such as the feeding procedures or stress on the animals because of their confinement, both plausible explanations. Without corroborating evidence, Smith insists the tomatoes were at fault, and he cites documents long available in the public record as evidence that facts were suppressed. But the documents, in their entirety, show the opposite of what Smith claims; the FDA reviewed all of the available data and affirmed the safety of the tomato.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of us (Val Giddings) read these documents when they first came out as he was at the time a regulator in the biotech products division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and had been peripherally involved with USDA’s review of the Calgene tomato. The documents didn’t support Smith’s conspiracy theories then and that hasn’t changed in the 22 years since.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consider item 15 on Smith’s list (chosen entirely at random as one of his few cited links that actually worked). Smith has offered it as one of many documents showing a conspiracy to suppress findings of dangers to consumers of the tomato. What does it show? Read it in its entirety for yourself and reach your own conclusions. If you do, you will find this statement, from an FDA official summarizing for his superiors:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All I can do is state my opinion that the data does not show any real toxicity. The requirements that one should have in this data (and in data generally) for a real finding [of toxicity] are:A strong association between the alleged cause (treatment) and the effect. Here the association is weak and variable and the effect seems spurious and unlikely to be reproduced.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Specificity (One should not find the effect produced by other extraneous factors. (Here we find the effect produced in the controls.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A biological gradient evidenced by a clear dose response. (This feature was not present in these studies.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consistent data shown by positive results in repeated studies. (Here a second study is negative.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A plausible biological mechanism for the treatment and the effect observed. (Here the tomatine levels were shown to be the same as in regular tomatoes and the acid in tomatoes is much weaker than stomach acid itself. No other likely treatment related cause is apparent.) On the other hand the stress-induced fasting is plausible.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At least two things stand out that are worth emphasizing: first, Smith claims the observed lesions were caused by the tomatoes, yet they were also seen, in the first experiment, in control rats that were not exposed; second, in the repeat experiment, no lesions at all were noted. This argues strongly against the tomatoes as the cause of the lesions seen in the first experiment, and suggests they were in fact an accidental result of the experimental procedures, which involved inserting a feeding tube down the throats of the rats – a technique that requires skill, and is easy to get wrong.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bottom line: FDA evaluators considered all the data, compared observations to what would be expected if the tomatoes were in fact the cause of the lesions, and when things didn’t add up, they concluded, following well established principles of toxicology, that whatever caused the lesions it wasn’t the tomatoes. And they documented their analysis and conclusions for the record. End of story.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Smith disputes FDA’s conclusion, despite the clear absence of any of the signs that would be expected if the tomatoes were in fact guilty, as enumerated above. Now Smith may sincerely believe FDA got it wrong, but there is nothing in the record to support his belief, and the science does not back him up.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Furthermore, Smith does more than just misunderstand and misrepresent ancient bureaucratic documents on obsolete products. He also writes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To claim that there are no new potential health hazards from GMOs is absurd. Fran Sharples, the Director of the Board on Life Sciences at the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), told me, “The academies have issued numerous reports on assessing the risks of transgenic plants. If the academy believed there were no such potential risks, why would we have delved into these matters in these reports?”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is intriguing. Fran Sharples has been working in this area for three decades. She has a well-deserved reputation for probity and professionalism. This comment does not sound like something she would say (if only for its clumsy phrasing). So, having known Dr. Sharples for three decades, we reached out to her and asked if Smith’s quote was accurate. Her reply:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To be perfectly honest, I have no recollection of ever talking to this guy or of making such a statement. For all I know, he made it up. It’s a mystery and a bit unsettling to find my name in print in association with something I have no memory of.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is also worth pointing out that the words Smith attributes to Dr. Sharples make no sense to anyone familiar with how the National Academy of Sciences works. The Academy generally does not pick and choose the topics of its studies, but rather responds to requests to examine issues, most often from government agencies. The Academy enlists</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">…the aid of the nation’s most knowledgeable scientists, engineers, health professionals, and other experts who volunteer their time to produce reports that have led to some of the most significant and lasting improvements in the health, education, and welfare of all the world’s citizens.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is commonplace for U.S. Government Agencies under assault by parties unwilling to follow where the data leads to request an impartial third party review from the Academy, which has frequently happened on GMO related issues. But as the present case demonstrates, folks unpersuaded by data are difficult to persuade by examinations of data.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One might wonder what would motivate someone to embark on a campaign of hostility toward innovations in food and agriculture that have already deliveredenormous benefits around the world, particularly to small farmers in developing countries? There doesn’t appear to be anything in Smith’s previous background as an accomplished ballroom dance instructor or practitioner of yogic flying (yes, see accompanying picture) that would lead one to anticipate such an obsession. 2015-04-01-1427907250-558156-smith1.jpg</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps it is related to his membership in the Maharishi religious cult that seems to make opposition to innovation in agricultural biotechnology one of its central tenets. Whatever Smith’s motivation, the weaknesses of his claims are not repaired by his ineffective attempts in their defense.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At this point, it may be worth considering the credentials of the folks at odds here. David Tribe, a microbiology PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in microbiology, recognized around the world for his expertise in biotechnology and food safety, widely published and cited in peer-reviewed literature, and noted for his dedication to education and public service. Bruce Chassy, a biochemistry PhD, was a research chemist at the National Institutes of Health, received the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Award, served as Professor and Head of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois, and as a food safety expert on the FDA’s Food Advisory Committee.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey Smith? His expertise in relevant areas is more quickly catalogued: he has none. He has two self-published books and a self-produced documentary narrated by the wife of Dr. Oz on the topic. He speaks to rabidly anti-GMO audiences around the world with a degree of passion and enthusiasm that does not embrace critical and rigorous engagement with the data. One is free to choose who one thinks is credible, but if you place value on competence and expertise, it is clear whose opinions are worthy of consideration.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is a Senior Fellow at the World Food Center Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy, University of California-Davis. Follow @JonEntine on Twitter</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Introduction</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biography</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cover-up, intimidation and 'paid-for research'</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's ties to Syngenta, involvement with ACSH and defense of atrazine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine connections and funding organizations</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine as journalist hit-man</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's legal issues</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine refuted</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PDF Documents</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is a media-savvy corporate propagandist and pseudo-journalistic "hit man" who fronts the opinions and positions of chemical corporations by pretending to be an independent journalist. He has ties to biotech companies Monsanto and Syngenta while playing a key role in another industry front group known as the American Council on Science and Health, a thinly-veiled corporate front group that Sourcewatch describes as holding "a generally apologetic stance regarding virtually every other health and environmental hazard produced by modern industry, accepting corporate funding from Coca-Cola, Kellogg, General Mills, Pepsico, and the American Beverage Association, among others." (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php? title=American_Council_on_Science_and_Health)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine knowingly and repeatedly publishes false and fictitious information in mainstream publications including Forbes.com, and his posts are often retracted after being challenged on their lack of factual basis. His actions against targeted individuals or companies are systematically abusive and resemble "revenge journalism." Entine takes a "hit man" approach to single out individuals - especially critics of GMOs - for accusations and abuse, often calling them names or implying they are sociopaths or a danger to society.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's deep involvement in the propaganda of poison-pushing corporations is also reflected in his own personal life, where he remains embattled in a bitter seven-year divorce during which he engaged in highly questionable behavior such as threatening his young daughter's therapist with a lawsuit if he continued to provide therapy sessions. At one point during the divorce, Entine's ex-wife pleaded with the court to demand a psychiatric evaluation of Entine, for which he refused to volunteer. (Source)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A protection order against Entine was issued by the courts in relation to his divorce battle.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biography</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is currently a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., a columnist for the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation, and co-founder of E.S.G.Metrics, which advises business and NGOs on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, including sustainability and executive leadership (Sourcewatch). His most recent clients have included KKR, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Proctor & Gamble, American Greetings, Monsanto, DHL/Deutsche Post, Fischer Homes, and Pomeroy IT Solutions.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine writes for academic and popular publications around the world and is a frequent television and radio commentator on business issues, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, NPR, and BBC. He has written and edited five books, most recently No Crime. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extra-judicial Prosecution (TFG Books, 2009), which focuses on the dangers of overzealous government prosecutors and the threat they pose to American civil liberties.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before launching his consulting and writing career, he spent 20 years as a network television news producer, winning more than twenty awards including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced news magazine programs at ABC News and CBS News, an entertainment special for NBC, and was Tom Brokaw's long-time producer at NBC News, where he was also the executive in charge of documentaries.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of Entine's books, “Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture”(AEI Press, 2006), purports to examine the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. But it is clear that the book is critical of anyone who questions the safety of GMO foods or otherwise supports further regulation of it, perhaps through legislation requiring GMO foods to be labeled, or by limiting the proximity of GM crops to fields planted with non-GM crops.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though he is listed as a “visiting scholar”…http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/meet-jon-entine-pro-monsanto-gmo-activist-and-pro-bill-gates-activist/#.U4zcivldWSo</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cover-up, intimidation and 'paid-for research'</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the past decade there has been growing controversy concerning atrazine, an herbicide of the triazine class. Atrazine is manufactured by Syngenta, a major biotechnology company, and the chemical is widely used in the United States and Australia to stop pre and post-emergence broadleaf and grassy weeds in crops such as sorghum, maize, sugarcane, lupins, pine and eucalypt plantations, and triazine tolerant (TT) canola.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of 2014, in the U.S., atrazine was the second-most-widely used agricultural chemical after glyphosate (which goes under the trade name of Roundup, which was developed and is sold by Monsanto). Nearly 80 million pounds of atrazine is applied to U.S. crops annually http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3733-2004Aug15_2.html. As noted in an August 15, 2004, Washington Post story (see above link), atrazine is, according to the EPA, “the most prevalent herbicide in ground and surface water, remaining stable and toxic for decades in some environments.”Further, “It is also a major source of revenue for Syngenta, a Swiss company with U.S. headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., that sells hundreds of millions of dollars'worth of the chemical every year.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post story noted that for years, the primary concern regarding atrazine was cancer, noting that “the chemical clearly causes cancer in rats.”Further, the Post reported, “male workers in Syngenta's production facility in Louisiana have experienced much higher rates of prostate cancer than other men statewide. But studies supported by Syngenta recently convinced the EPA that the mechanism by which atrazine causes cancer in rats probably does not occur in people.”The company's reasoning for the higher rates of prostate cancer among its Louisiana workers “is that it has an aggressive screening program that finds cases that would otherwise go undetected.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post story further reported that previous studies on frogs were performed by biologist Tyrone Hayes, a U.C./Berkeley professor who found that tiny doses of atrazine affects frogs'sexual development. When Hayes “sought to publish his work and have the data considered by the EPA, the company told him to run the tests again, said Hayes and Tim Pastoor, a Syngenta vice president. When repeated studies confirmed the worrisome link, Hayes was reminded that his contract forbade him to publish without </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta's approval. He was told that his data ought to be passed to a company-selected statistician for double-checking.”Hayes quit the company he was working for at the time, EcoRisk, and published his findings on his own in a pair of peer-reviewed journals (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Enter Entine, Syngenta intimidation and the American Council on Science and Health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intimidation. (Per Wikipedia) “In 2014, New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv reported that Syngenta might have been orchestrating an attack on the “scientific credibility”of not just Tyrone Hayes, the lead critic of atrazine use, but other scientists as well whose studies have shown atrazine to have negative effects on the environment and/or human and animal healthhttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Paul Winchester, a professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, wrote a paper that was published in Acta Paediatricahttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1651-2227.2008.01207.x/full  reviewing national records for thirty million births, found that children conceived between April and July, when the concentration of atrazine, mixed with other pesticides, in water is highest, were more likely to have genital birth defects. Professor Winchester subsequently received a subpoena requesting that he turn over to Syngenta every e-mail he had written about atrazine in the past decade.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Deborah Cory-Slechta, a professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and a former member of the EPA's science advisory board, said that she, too, had felt that Syngenta was trying to ‘undermine'her work, after she published a study showing that the herbicide paraquat may contribute to diseases of the nervous system. “The folks from Syngenta used to follow me to my talks and tell me I wasn't using ‘human-relevant doses',”Cory-Slechta said. ‘They would go up to my students and try to intimidate them. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There was this sustained campaign to make it look like my science wasn't legitimate.'</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In one of the e-mails obtained by class-action suit plaintiffs, the company's communications consultants had written in 2005 that they “wanted to obtain Hayes's calendar of speaking engagements,”so that Syngenta could “start reaching out to the potential audiences with the Error vs. Truth Sheet,”which would provide “irrefutable evidence of his polluted messages.”Syngenta subsequently stated that many of the documents unsealed in the lawsuits refer to “ideas that were never implemented.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientific abuse. By 2012, a lot had happened regarding atrazine. As of 2001, Atrazine was the most commonly detected pesticide contaminating drinking water in the United States. By 2004 it had been banned for use by the European Union. Later, scientists would learn that the endocrine system was the system in humans and animals alike that atrazine targeted most heavily, while a 2008 study would report that tadpoles developed deformed hearts and impaired kidneys and digestive systems when exposed to atrazine in their early stages of life. Tissue malformation may have been induced by ectopic programmed cell death, although a mechanism was not identifiedhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235211/. The following year, in 2009, The New York Times discussed how atrazine could be a potential cause of birth defects, low birth weights and menstrual problems when consumed at concentrations below federal standards http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/us/23water.html?r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all&.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012 an epidemiological study showed that women who lived in counties in Texas with the highest levels of atrazine being used on agricultural crops were 80 times more likely to give birth to infants with choanal atresia or stenosis compared to women who lived in the counties with the lowest levels https://www.bcm.edu/news/hematology/study-exposure-herbicide-risk-rare-disorder. The same year Syngenta Corporation, manufacturer of atrazine, was the defendant in a class action lawsuit concerning the levels of </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">atrazine in human water supplies. Syngenta agreed to pay $105 million to reimburse more than a thousand water systems for “the cost of filtering atrazine from drinking water”, although the company denied all wrongdoing http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/atrazine.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA had conducted a number of reviews of findings regarding health risks posed by atrazine, but has still elected not to impose stricter regulations on its use.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's ties to Syngenta, involvement with ACSH and defense of atrazine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, the American Council on Science and Health offer to ‘help'Syngenta. An internal email disclosed in documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta, shows that the ACSH received regular money and even asked for additional funding from “Syngenta friends”to commission a book that would, in large part, be a defense of atrazine:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As we made clear, ACSH is eager to commission a literature review on the general subject of pesticide exposure and human health. The paper would, of course, not be exclusively about atrazine, but the recent and ongoing “controversy”would be a primary focus.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACSH said it was committing $100,000 to the project –funding that was “separate and distinct from general operating support Syngenta has been so generously providing over the years, which we request to continue at current or increased levels.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine was the author of the commissioned book.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011 the ACSH produced its “companion friendly”paper called, “Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health.”The book attacks the EPA and “harmful, unnecessary regulation”as well as the precautionary principle. It contains a chapter-long “case study”defending atrazine, just as members of the Syngenta PR team had been seeking. (http://acsh.org/2011/01/scared-to-death/)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An investigative report by PR Watch also links Entine to the book: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/02/11277/syngenta-pr%E2%80%99s-weed-killer-spin-machine-investigating-press-and-shaping-news-about</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mother Jones magazine further reported:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CMD's investigation does not establish whether ACSH ever got Syngenta funding for that project. But CMD raises the possibility that Entine's slim volume Scared to Death might be the very booklet that ACSH's executive director envisioned in his letter to Syngenta. Entine flat-out denied this suggestion in an email exchange. "Syngenta is not a client and never has been. I have no clients in the agricultural or chemicals businesses," he wrote.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael F. Jacobson, the executive director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said this about the ACSH in a letter to the editor at the Washington Times: “The group is a receptacle for payments from pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, food and other companies who appreciate the convenience of having their grantees and former employees serve on government science panels.”And the Center for Media and Democracy discovered that Syngenta's public relations division operated in part to protect the company's lucrative sales of atrazine (in a two-part report here and here). Entine's name shows up in these reports.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's important to further note that, before ACSH stopped revealing donors in 1991, this online source reports that the “Monsanto Fund”was a corporate donor of $25,000 and above. Another donor was “The NutriSweet Company,”which was owned by G.D. Searle & Co., which in turn also funded Enzine-linked STATS. Pfizer, which held the NutriSweet brand, was also a donor to ACSH. This source is called the “Integrity in Science Project.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this Forbes piece further touting atrazine, Entine claims that Hayes'research was not “reproducible,” but this assessmenthttp://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/abuses_of_science/atrazine-and-health.html by the Union of Concern Scientists notes that the hand-picked industry scientists chosen to “replicate”Hayes'research did not accurately copy Hayes'methods:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes of the University of California at Berkeley, originally hired by the chemical company Syngenta to review studies to help certify the herbicide for re-registration with the EPA, was at first surprised when he found that African clawed frog tadpoles were “chemically castrated”when exposed to even trace amounts of atrazine –levels one-thirtieth the amount currently permitted in US drinking water. Hayes'findings were published in both Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes, who eventually resigned from the Syngenta review panel out of concern that his worrisome lab results were being buried, later charged that industry-supported scientists produced “a number of studies that were purposely flawed and misleading, and that changed the weight of the evidence.”The two remaining members of Syngenta's atrazine review panel claimed that they had each tried but failed to replicate Hayes'data. In the scientific world such a claim is an insult or worse, implying that the original </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">experiment may have been dishonest or flawed. In this case, the two scientists had both experienced difficulties raising the frogs—many of which died before metamorphosis because of being overcrowded and underfed. One scientist reported that he had contaminated the water with too much atrazine.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, the new studies did nothing to disprove Hayes'results, which have been “echoed by at least four other independent research teams in three countries.”When Hayes offered to help the Syngenta panel members and the EPA repeat his experiments to see for themselves whether atrazine posed a danger, the EPA declined. Nonetheless, the failed studies served to bolster the argument that the science linking atrazine to hormone disruption was uncertain.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, Entine's claim that Hayes'experiments were “not reproducible”is not accurate because the research attempt at replicating Hayes'results was flawed from the start and was not conducted under the exact conditions Hayes first used to reach his conclusions.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further, and under a byline stating that he was the “Director, Genetic Literacy Project, Statistical Assessment Service, George Mason Univ.,”Entine authored a piece for The Huffington Post attacking atrazine critics and defending the chemical: </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/frog-day-afternoon-choose_b_853776.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And as noted here, Entine has a history of defending chemical use, GMO foods and other industry initiatives on behalf of the chemical/biochemical/biotech industries on behalf of ACSH: http://acsh.org/?s=jon+entine&cat=0&x=31&y=22</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an investigative piece, Mother Jones revealed how heavily financed ACSH is by the very industries the “independent”organization defends: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising :</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the ACSH documents, from July 1, 2012, to December 20, 2012, 58 percent of donations to the council came from corporations and large private foundations. ACSH's donors and the potential backers the group has been targeting comprise </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a who's-who of energy, agriculture, cosmetics, food, soda, chemical, pharmaceutical, and tobacco corporations. ACSH donors in the second half of 2012 included Chevron ($18,500), Coca-Cola ($50,000), the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation ($15,000), Dr. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pepper/Snapple ($5,000), Bayer Cropscience ($30,000), Procter and Gamble ($6,000), agribusiness giant Syngenta ($22,500), 3M ($30,000), McDonald's ($30,000), and tobacco conglomerate Altria ($25,000).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See the document listing these donations here: http://www.motherjones.com/documents/809483-acsh-financial-summary#document/p4/a128808</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More from the Mother Jones investigation:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Gilbert Ross, the group's executive director, declined to answer specific questions about ACSH's fundraising. He did not dispute the authenticity of the documents provided to Mother Jones. (Multiple corporations listed as donors on these documents confirmed they had supported ACSH.) Ross says the group doesn't disclose its backers because “the sources of our support are irrelevant to our scientific investigations.”According to Ross, “Only science-based facts hold sway in our publications, even if the outcome is not pleasing to our contributors.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Mother Jones reported in 2005, Ross was previously convicted for defrauding New York State's Medicaid program of roughly $8 million. His medical license was temporarily revoked and a jury sentenced him to 46 months in prison, of which he served 23 months. Ross currently has his license and is allowed to practice.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ACSH was founded in 1978 by Elizabeth Whelan, a Harvard-trained public-health scientist, as a counterweight to environmental groups and Ralph Nader's consumer advocacy movement. At the organization's founding, Whelan stated that the council “intends to remain free from financial ties with corporations with a financial interest in the topics we are investigating.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“ACSH calls the U.S. ban on DDT one of the 20 worst unfounded health scares of the 20th century. It ridicules the risks that chemical ‘endocrine disruptors'pose to human health and fertility. In addition to pesticides and chemical food additives, it has defended asbestos, Agent Orange and nuclear power. Whelan's nutritional advice has also raised eyebrows among health experts, many of whom take exception to her claims that there is ‘no such thing as ‘junk food,and that ‘There is insufficient evidence of a relationship between diet and any disease.'” Source</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the start, ACSH has faced questions about its funding:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the early 1980s, ACSH's donors included Dow, Monsanto, American Cyanamid, Mobil Foundation, Chevron, and Bethlehem Steel. In 1984, Georgia-Pacific, a leading formaldehyde maker, funded a friend-of-the-court brief filed by ACSH in an industry-backed lawsuit that overturned a ban on formaldehyde insulation.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACSH claims it does not seek donations from corporations or trade groups that are earmarked for specific research projects –in short, there is no quid pro quo. But at Mother Jones reported:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a March 1992 internal memo obtained by Consumer Reports, Whelan wrote that ACSH staffers would ask the Calorie Control Council, a trade group backed by diet food and drink companies, and McNeil Specialty Products, a Johnson & Johnson </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">subsidiary that owned the US marketing rights to Splenda (an artificial sweetener), for contributions to underwrite the dissemination of a research paper touting artificial sweeteners. (Splenda was then seeking approval for sale in the United States.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's book (“Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health”) and chapter singing the praises of atrazine followed along with the Syngenta PR team's wishes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a piece for Forbes.com, published February 9, 2012, Entine attacked Mother Jones magazine for its earlier exposé of Hayes; Entine's piece in Forbes was critical and an attempt as well to discredit Hayes'research, but again it was based on faulty premises.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Chicago Now piece dissects Entine's (and Forbes') claims: http://www.chicagonow.com/high-gloss-and-sauce/2013/08/forbes-atrazine-jon-etine-082013 The piece charges that an EPA-recognized study on the effects of atrazine on frogs which claimed not to be able to refute or confirm Hayes'studies is “mainly because of the limitations of the study designs and uncertainties in the data.”It was a problem with the EPA's own processes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Forbes, Entine argues that atrazine is “so gentle”it can be applied right after a “crop's first shoots”appear. But this is misdirection; the issue is that atrazine is harmful once it runs off into ground water, as Hayes'data show. Per Chicago Now: “The EPA is </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">so aware of this and eager to dodge upsetting Syngenta, the makers of Atrazine (as well as avoid upsetting the public and showing their incompetence) that for the 2013 report on Atrazine, the EPA took the groundwater measurement in January, when toxin levels are typically low. (Atrazine is applied to farm crops in Spring.)”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the EPA itself notes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-“Atrazine is a commonly reported groundwater contaminant.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-“Drinking water from a contaminated groundwater or surface water source can be a significant medium of exposure for children.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-“Exposure to children can occur primarily from ingestion of contaminated drinking water, and from dermal contact or ingestion following agricultural and lawn applications.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-“Atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide in U.S. surface waters, particularly in the U.S. Midwest Corn Belt region.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The source for these EPA statements is here: http://www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/Atrazine_summary.pdf</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his Forbes piece, Enzine made these claims:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA's assessment reflects the consensus by many scientific bodies around the world, including the World Health Organization and regulatory agencies in Australia, Canada the European Union's safety review: atrazine has a short half-life, does not bio-accumulate in organisms, is not carcinogenic and study after study has shown it does not cause abnormalities and deformities at levels occurring in groundwater.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As noted by Chicago Now:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- Atrazine has been banned by the EU.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- The problem is not that it bio-accumulates in organisms, the problem is that exposure around the time of ovulation can cause adverse effects on embryos including chromosome aberrations (to quote the EPA, “Reproductive effects are the most sensitive </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">effects observed in atrazine toxicity tests”also, “Change in hormone levels is the most sensitive health effect observed in an extensive battery of atrazine toxicity tests” Source: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/atrazine/atrazine_update.htm</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A National Institutes of Health study found that surface water atrazine and nitrate levels were related to increased incidences of abdominal wall defects. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17560200">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17560200</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, an independent panel of scientists convened by the EPA recommended that the agency revise its assumption that atrazine “is unlikely to cause cancer.”Pointing to what it called "strong" epidemiological evidence linking atrazine to thyroid cancer, the </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">panel states that the agency is currently acting with "inadequate information to assess carcinogenic potential." </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine essentially is defending the indefensible.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As reported by Mother Jones here:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last week, the EPA released the minutes of the panel's final meeting, which took place July 26-28. Its conclusions were stark. The panel criticized the EPA for lumping all forms of cancer together in its atrazine assessment, noting that "it would be useful and appropriate to make conclusions for individual cancers as opposed to making a blanket determination for cancer in general." It then gave a list of cancers for which there is "suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential": ovarian cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, hairy-cell leukemia, and thyroid cancer. For other cancers—prostate cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancers, and childhood cancers—the panel found that "there is inadequate evidence" to determine whether or not atrazine is a cause.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At another point in the minutes, the panel pointed to "strong" epidemiological evidence linking atrazine to thyroid cancer and "suggestive" evidence linking it to ovarian cancer. "Many on the Panel believed that the epidemiology data failed to provide compelling evidence that atrazine is not carcinogenic," the minutes stated.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents in the atrazine lawsuit revealed that Entine was one of the "third party outreach" people that Syngenta's PR contractor, the White House Writers Group, was in communication with over a pesticides conference that the AEI hosted.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This report by PR Watch confirms the “third party outreach”allegation. Here is the relevant passage:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Unsealed e-mails reveal (PDF) that earlier that same week WHWG had reported to Syngenta that a third party the PR team was in communication with was Jon Entine of the American Enterprise Institute. Entine is a former producer with NBC and ABC News, whose books attacked the idea of socially responsible investing and the precautionary principle (Let Them Eat Precaution)."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine connections and funding organizations</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is founder of ESG MediaMetrics, “an alliance of strategic partners, to address an unfilled frustration voiced by corporations, business groups and civil society organizations: how to manage the complex nexus of media, public policy and sustainable management. This is a PR group aimed at attacking anyone and any group or company that dares to challenge the “scientific orthodoxy”of ESG clients.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: http://www.esgmediametrics.com/founder.htm</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of EGR's clients is Monsanto, according to this source.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's EGR site discusses the firm's role:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We manage and create reputations. We bring to every challenge our vast experience as active journalists, public relations and media specialists, international scholars, and advisers for Fortune 500 corporations.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the company's specific roles is “Communications and Public Relations Strategy,”but in an email to Mother Jones, Entine denied EGR was a PR firm:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I consult with organizations, from fair trade groups to the Environmental Defense Fund to corporations. I'm committed to science. I do no corporate PR work. You can misrepresent what I do and call it PR work, but that would be deceitful. People who do what I do are generally called "green consultants," which I'm sure you'd never use as then I'd seem like a good guy and it's much easier to put people and what they do in neat little boxes that prevent real thinking.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for listing Monsanto as a client on the ESG website, Entine wrote: "Nine years ago, I did a $2000 research project for v-Fluence, a social media company formed by former Monsanto executives. That's the entirety of my Monsanto relationship."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has also worked with Jay Byrne's PR firm v-Fluence, which was set up by former Monsanto executives.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Genetic Literacy Project. Entine is also executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Genetic_Literacy_Project, which is affiliated with George Mason University. One of the organization's purposes is to promote GMOs. The GLP is also associated with STATS, or the Statistical Assessment Service and the Center for Media and Public Affairs. GLP has another “sister”organization besides STATS, and that is EconoSTATS, which promotes privatization and discourages </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">government regulation http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Statistical_Assessment_Service. STATS has been funded in the past by Searle Freedom Trust, an organization founded by Big Pharma G.D. Searle & Co., makers of (among other things) aspartame (trade name “NutriSweet”) and is now part of Pfizer http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Searle_Freedom_Trust. The Searle Freedom Trust funds a number of organizations and think tanks aimed at promoting corporate bottom lines, even over sound science.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to an email he sent Mother Jones magazine, Entine derives the bulk of his income from the GLP:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To hear Entine tell it, his defenses of atrazine and other pesticides are entirely pro bono and driven by his own initiative. He told me he gets "almost all" of his income from the Genetic Literacy Project, which, he added, is funded by what he called the Templeton and Searle foundations. The project is housed at the Statistical Assessment Service program at George Mason University, where Entine is a fellow. Though Entine would not specify which Searle trust funded the GLP, the Searle Freedom Trust's 2010 tax form lists a $154,000 grant to STATS for a "Gene Policy and Science Literacy Project," which sounds an awful lot like Entine's.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is also listed as a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Enterprise_Institute  Entine uses his AEI platform as a “visiting fellow”to give himself credibility http://www.aei.org/scholar/jon-entine/, but he says he receives no money from the organization.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine as journalist hit-man</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop. One of Entine's crowning achievements was the “take-down”of a business known as The Body Shop (TBS) during his waning days as a news program producer at ABC, in 1994. Unable to get the program aired at ABC, Entine eventually convinced a small-time journal, the Minneapolis-based Business Ethics magazine, to publish what can only be described as a hit piece against TBS. This was a long-term “investigation”by Entine, who seemed locked into TBS for some reason. Immediately prior to the publication of his piece in Business Ethics, TBS responded to his reported allegations, which were reported by Britain's Independent newspaper: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/besieged-body-shop-comes-out-fighting-1386286.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Entine was accused by the company of using questionable methods, and making ‘misleading statements which are seriously defamatory of The Body Shop. It added that he ‘has been engaged in a single- minded campaign of vilification against The Body Shop'.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Entine is alleged to have described Anita Roddick, the company's founder, as a ‘schizophrenic and a sociopath.'</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He is said to have denounced the company in approaches to investors, franchisees and potential supporters. Yesterday's statement also accused him of pestering Anita Roddick at home, a claim Mr. Entine denies.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among allegations to surface in the past 10 days are claims that the company's ‘Trade not Aid'policy of buying goods from indigenous peoples was not as vigorously pursued as The Body Shop had claimed, that Ms Roddick ‘stole'the company's concept from a tiny American outfit, and that it had been responsible for pollution in New Jersey.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TBS' share prices fell on news of the report.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, according to environmental activist, writer, lecturer and organizer Lorna Salzman (Source: http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwritings/unwise.html) there was more to Entine's TBS episode behind the scenes. She writes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's lengthy CV on the web emphasizes his television news experience prominently. His last full-time TV stint was at ABC television's Primetime Live, but what Entine doesn't report is that he was fired from ABC during his investigation of TBS for “mistakes in methodology.” In a letter from London's The Sunday Times, the Deputy Editor explains how his paper was misled by Entine and how he misrepresented himself.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We now know what we did not know then: ABC discovered Entine had made a number of mistakes in his methodology so serious that they had in effect fired him some ten days before. Entine, probably unknown to ABC, was however still picking up his messages from a phone on his old desk in the ABC building. We now understand from ABC sources that Entine is regarded as out of control and has been running around saying some wild things”(Ivan Fallon, letter from Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times, October 8, 1993).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine then sold the idea to Vanity Fair, a publication with many cosmetic advertisers who compete with TBS (Sandra Earley, “The Woman Who Wants to Save the World”, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996). They rejected the story but paid Entine a $15,000 kill fee and $18,000 in expenses. (S.Earley, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996).It isn't as if Entine is some Norman Mailer; his bio up until this article shows no other published stories but a recent book on black athletes got some media attention.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine tried to bring the story to other magazines without success, and finally Business Ethics, a small financially struggling publication, paid him $300 for the story and published it. Entine then turned around and made a $1000 donation to the magazine (S.Earley, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996). The publication of this story, to which Business Ethics would not allow a rebuttal, damaged TBS'image and stock value. Two years after the article appeared, Entine's wife Ellen Turner was hired to be a marketing executive for The Limited, the parent company of TBS'largest US competitor, Bath and Body Works.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, to use a favorite Entine word, a bizarre thing occurred during a 1997 lecture at Trent University in Canada: Entine stated that “Of course, The Body Shop is better than 99% of companies”. But why doesn't he WRITE that? When pressed at Trent about why he doesn't pursue corporate criminals like Shell Oil over their Nigerian operations (an issue TBS has campaigned on since 1993), he had no answer.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Salzman adds this regarding Entine's TBS “investigation”:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Entine's TBS attack, he referred to a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of a small shampoo spill from TBS'New Jersey operations. But he failed to say that it was HE who called in the complaint (later whiting out his name, a fact he concealed), that FDA found the TBS facility to actually be well-run, and that FDA, upon completing all inspections, is bound by law to make recommendations regardless of how clean the facility may be. (FDA Report Summary of Findings, 1123).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Walter Ritte. Writing in The Daily Kos, “Karen from Maui”dissects another hit piece written by Entine, in which he attempts to disparage another environmental activist: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/21/1240329/-Corporate-PR-The-War-on-Environmentalists#</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searle funded STATS shill, Jon Entine, wrote an entire article filled with unsubstantiated accusations against GMO activist, Walter Ritte.  Walter Ritte is a long time Hawaiian activist who is respected for his role in reclaiming the island of Kaho'olawe from military bombing.  In the article Jon Entine mixes up Ritte's activist causes with his unsuccessful run for </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  This article is a textbook example of this PR technique in action.  It not only uses Destroying Personal Reputations but it is done through a corporate-sponsored Front Group.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his capacity as Genetic Literacy Project, Entine levels non-specific and, at the time of his writing, unsubstantiated charges against Ritte:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activist leaders opposed to crop biotechnology, such as Walter Ritte, the Molokai-based political activist, have attempted to frame this battle as David vs. Goliath, threadbare grassroots campaigners fighting Big Ag. Although they claim their opposition to the innovative technology is home grown, a Genetic Literacy Project investigation, still in its infancy, suggests that the opposition is flush with cash, getting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from mainland anti-GMO organic organizations that have an ideological stake in blocking new farming technologies.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, as the headline introduction to one portion of his piece, Entine prominently, and rhetorically, insinuates:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Did Walter Ritte violate Hawaii's campaign spending law?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a subsequent investigation by a local newspaper, The Molokai News, in reference to a piece Entine wrote at </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Forbes.com, in which he accused an anti-GMO group Ritte is associated with of illegally receiving more than 80 percent of its funds from non-Hawaii donors, a charge that records filed by Ritte with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission appear to substantiate. What Entine does not mention in his charges –either in his Forbes.com piece or on his GLP website, is that, according to The Molokai News, despite Hawaii law on the matter, it is moot:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gary Kam, legal counsel for HCSC, would not comment on whether there is an active investigation being conducted on Ritte. This will not be public information, he said, unless it is referred to the Commission for action. He did say that there has been no past enforcement action taken against Ritte.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kam also mentioned that the violation may be moot and unenforceable anyway. Apparently, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided, prior to 2012, that it was unconstitutional to limit contributions from out of state sources, said Kam. This was based on a case in which a University of Hawaii student contribution was considered valid even though the student had a permanent address on the mainland.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A report from the organization Campaign Freedom further found in April 2014 that, because of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in McCutcheon v FEC, which invalidated the federal aggregate limit on contributions by individuals to candidate campaigns and political committees as unconstitutional under the First Amendment, “states with aggregate limits and proportional bans should strongly consider repealing these speech-stifling regulations in order to comply with the precedent set in the McCutcheon decision and avoid a likely successful legal challenge.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A case that challenged a number of Hawaii's campaign spending laws was being appealed by the state of Hawaii, but the state dropped its appeal in June 2011.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gilles-Eric Saralini. Entine has also set his sights on French Prof. Gilles-Eric Saralini, whose University of Caen study found that GM maize and Roundup at very low doses caused organ damage, tumors and premature death in rats over the long term.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, again in Forbes, criticized Saralini in a May 2013 piece for withdrawing from a planned debate regarding biotechnology (Saralini is a critic of Monsanto, Roundup and GMOs, largely as a result of his findings) at the libertarian-leaning CATO Institute. Entine, in his critical piece, claimed that he wanted to use the debate forum to “present both sides of the issue”regarding genetically modified foods and GM biotechnology in general, but his history suggestions otherwise, as he is a regular, vociferous defender of GMO foods and the biotechnology that created them.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GM Watch reported that these articles are dishonest in the extreme. “For example, Entine described Seralini's findings as "anomalous" even though Seralini's was the only long-term toxicity study ever carried out on this particular GM maize and the herbicide it is grown with. It's hard not to produce "anomalous" findings if there is only one experiment.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has also worked to undermine Saralini on Wikipedia, using the handle “runjonrun”(Incidentally, Entine's email address is mailto:runjonrun@earthlink.net). GM Watch wasalerted by Wikipedia users to the fact that Entine was one of the early editors on a one-sided and originally potentially libellous Wikipedia article called "The Seralini affair", which denigrated Seralini's study and Seralini himself.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, under the Wiki user name "runjonrun", was active in vandalizing the article by rapidly deleting balancing information, for example, about the scientific support for Seralini's study and the conflicts of interest among critics of the study.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a previous Wiki spat, "runjonrun" had revealed his true identity as Jon Entine after upsetting other Wiki users by allegedly contravening Wiki conflict of interest guidelines and vandalising articles without justification.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's legal issues</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has been involved in a seven-year divorce battle with his wife. And, according to court documents, there has been an order of protection filed against him:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Each party supplemented its position with a subsequent affidavit. And Humbert introduced the affidavit of Entine's ex-wife, along with copies of her application for protective orders against Entine made in the course of their recent divorce.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine refuted</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- One of Entine's books, “Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It,”has been called the “go-to”piece of work for mainstream sports writers when the subject turns to race in sports. But in a scholarly work countering Entine's claims, Ian B. Kerr from Western Michigan University concluded “that science and genetic experimentation have proven that natural biological variation amongst and between peoples cannot be used to validate claims of innate racial superiority in athletic competition.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kerr further notes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Entine does cite supposed “genetic”data on the differences between Blacks and Whites, he is in fact citing biological data. These include studies on African fast twitch muscle fibers and development of motor skills. Entine includes these studies to demonstrate irrevocable proof of embedded genetic differences between populations but refuses to accept the fact that any differences may be due to environmental factors or training. Entine then is unfairly giving an undue strong preference to genetic factors while disregarding social and environmental factors (Harpalani, 2004).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moreover, external differences like height or weight, which play an instrumental role in helping define an individual's athletic prowess, have not been proven to be exclusively rooted in biology or genetics. Genetic differences among people cannot solely account for why certain people are more athletic than others, as scientists cannot find any specific genetic markers that define the characteristics of athleticism (speed, height, strength) in one group or “race”more than any other.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet why has the genetic theory of Black athletic dominance been so difficult to debunk? Part of the problem are the roles of professional athletes and the media in reinforcing negative stereotypes regarding race and athletic ability.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He makes this conclusion, among others:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine and other quasi-genetic determinists fall into a mode of thinking wherein physical differences between individuals are read as proof that separate races of people exist. By focusing on physical differences and insignificant genetic variations rather than providing insight into the biodiversity among humans, Entine muddies the waters of racism and racial superiority.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writing in American Scientist, University of Georgia's Paul Achter and Celeste Condit also refute Entine's conclusions:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bulk of the book blends historical anecdotes about the intersection of race, science and sports with genetic research underwritten by a supposed objectivity of observation. Entine refutes deterministic environmental explanations for athletic superiority. Too often, he argues, such accounts completely ignore the contribution of genes in our ability to dunk a basketball, run long distances or elude a defensive back. But Entine goes too far in the opposite direction. Although he occasionally gives lip service to the idea that nature and nurture both contribute to athletic ability, Entine ultimately dismisses substantive consideration of environmental factors as ideological or self-censoring. He leaves the impression that there are clear racial differences in athletic abilities and that all such differences are traceable to genes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regrettably, Entine's version of genetics constitutes a caricature of that science. His account of the debate over the "out-of-Africa" hypothesis is lopsided and reflects the hastiness and sloppiness that also bedevils the proofreading, organization and argumentative structuring throughout the book. Ultimately, Entine takes what may be a kernel of truth—that there are very small differences in frequencies of particular physical structures in some geographically localized populations—and distorts it into the claim that "blacks" are universally better athletes because of their genes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The flaws in this larger claim are illustrated by Entine's use of Tiger Woods as an example of the physical superiority of black athletes. Entine admits Tiger Woods's multiracial origins but then lumps him back into a mythical racial group called "blacks." </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Throughout, Entine plays fast and loose with categories in this fashion. He proves that a local group of Kenyans dominate middle-distance running, then uses this to make generalized statements that "blacks" are better "athletes." Sports where "blacks" do not dominate (swimming, cricket, gymnastics, polo) are quickly dismissed on grounds of nurture or environment (for instance, blacks don't have access to polo ponies), but in either case, the difference somehow is treated as support of his claim that "blacks are innately superior athletes."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If taken seriously, Entine's claims could only support the silliest of propositions. Entine maintains that the "disparity between blacks and whites in sports is at least as pronounced" as the disparity between women and men. Do we need, therefore, a separate "white men's league" for basketball and tennis? Should Title IX agents worry about the inadequacy of opportunities for young white boys to play basketball or go bowling? Any other suggestions? As long as white-skinned boys, even those who are relatively untalented, continue to have greater opportunities for athletic self-development than boys of all other cultural and geographic heritages and than all girls, Entine's argument will remain one undeserving of much concern</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- Arthur E. Berman, a petroleum geologist and consultant to the energy sector; editorial board member of The Oil Drum; Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin; Director of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil, wrote a letter to George Mason University dated July 4, 2011, that he also posted online on his blog, in which he sought to refute claims and assertions made by Entine in his Real Clear Politics column published a few days earlier, on July 1, “Natural Gas "Bubble" Report: Market Tinkering or Shoddy Reporting?”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His post contains errors, exaggerations and untrue statements that cannot be substantiated, and thereby jeopardize George Mason University's legal position and reputation as an honest broker of information.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I demand that Mr. Entine post public corrections to the many incorrect and unsubstantiated claims that he makes in this post. I further request that he write to me directly acknowledging that his post contained the many incorrect and undocumented claims that </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I specify below. He never contacted me or my clients to verify these claims and, apparently, did no research to document his many specious allegations.''</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman then goes on to list the errors, exaggerations and statements he says are untrue. Those are here: http://petroleumtruthreport.blogspot.com/2011/07/letter-to-george-mason-university-re.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PDF Documents</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"He is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., a columnist for the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation, and co-founder of E.S.G.Metrics, which advises business and NGOs on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, including sustainability and executive leadership. Recent clients have included KKR, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, P&G, American Greetings, Monsanto, DHL/Deutsche Post, Fischer Homes, and Pomeroy IT Solutions.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Jon writes for academic and popular publications around the world and is a frequent television and radio commentator on business issues, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, NPR, and BBC. He has written and edited five books, most recently No Crime But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extra-judicial Prosecution (TFG Books, 2009), which focuses on the dangers of over zealous government prosecutors and the threat they pose to American civil liberties.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Before launching his consulting and writing career, Jon spent 20 years as a network television news producer, winning more than twenty awards including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced news magazine programs at ABC News and CBS News, an entertainment special for NBC (on the Miss America Pageant!), and was Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News, where he was also the executive in charge of documentaries.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In 1989, Tom and Jon collaborated to write and produce Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, named Best International Sports Film of 1989), which led to his best-selling book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to Talk About It (Public Affairs, 2000), which was recently reissued. AEI has published two books written and edited by Jon: Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (AEI Press, 2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (AEI Press, 2006), which examines the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. In 2007, Jon published Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), which merges genealogy, genetics, and religion to vividly bring to life a new understanding of Western identity and the shared biblical ancestry of Jews and Christians. It addresses efforts to identify cures for diseases that disproportionately impact specific populations and the social and political tempest that a renewed focus on “race” research is stirring...</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Jon has participated in and organized dozens of public forums on policy issues at the AEI, the Brookings Institution, and the Hudson Institute. He has served as a lecturer at various universities, including Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, New York University, and most recently Miami (Ohio) University, where he was scholar-in-residence. Jon graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1974 with a degree in philosophy and earned a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Michigan in 1980-1982. He was recently named to the board of the Jewish Community Relations Council in Cincinnati, where he resides." [1]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lsalzman2@verizon.net</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A graduate of Cornell University, Lorna Salzman has been an environmental activist, writer, lecturer and organizer for forty years. In the early 1970s, under the auspices of Citizens for Local Democracy, co-founded by the late Walter Karp, she edited a Brooklyn Heights NY community paper, The Township, dedicated to neighborhood government and political decentralization.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is easy to ferret out these surrogates. All one has to do is look at who is being attacked and who is being ignored. Those who attack groups like Sierra Club or Greenpeace without ever mentioning corporations like Monsanto, Dupont, Shell Oil and Dow Chemical are the ones to look out for.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">True, hardly an organization or corporation exists that hasn't committed some errors in judgment or made some bad policy bloopers. And needless to say, no organization, no matter how noble its cause, should be exempt from criticism. But there is a world of difference between those corporations or groups who are basically good but exhibit occasional flaws, and those who are basically bad but sometimes do some good things. Unlike the Monsantos and Shell Oils of the world, the Sierra Clubs and Greenpeaces of the world, if left to their own devices, will not destroy the earth.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The same goes for corporations. Here the good, bad and worst can also be rather easily distinguished. Some corporations may not be particularly admirable regarding their labor or management practices, while others may be destroying the world while being paragons of good management and worker relations. Here's a test: if you had to prevent the damage done by certain businesses, would you choose Ben & Jerry's and The Body Shop on the one hand, or Monsanto and Shell Oil?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Take for instance Jon Entine, whose sophisticated atacks on liberals, ethical investors, anti-defense spending and anti- animal testing advocates, and anti-nuclear activists - as well as on The Body Shop (TBS), Council on Economic Priorities, Ben and Jerry's and others - have helped damage these organizations both in reputation and stock value, not to mention public trust. Where are these attacks really coming from? In Entine's case, clearly not from any love for the progressive movement or environmentalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's lengthy CV on the web emphasizes his television news experience prominently. His last full-time TV stint was at ABC television's Primetime Live, but what Entine doesn't report is that he was fired from ABC during his investigation of TBS for "mistakes in methodology". In a letter from London's The Sunday Times, the Deputy Editor explains how his paper was misled by Entine and how he misrepresented himself.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We now know what we did not know then: ABC discovered Entine had made a number of mistakes in his methodology so serious that they had in effect fired him some ten days before. Entine, probably unknown to ABC, was however still picking up his messages from a phone on his old desk in the ABC building. We now understand from ABC sources that Entine is regarded as out of control and has been running around saying some wild things" (Ivan Fallon, letter from Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times, October 8, 1993).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine then sold the idea to Vanity Fair, a publication with many cosmetic advertisers who compete with TBS (Sandra Earley, "The Woman Who Wants to Save the World", Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996). They rejected the story but paid Entine a $15,000 kill fee and $18,000 in expenses. (S.Earley, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996).It isn't as if Entine is some Norman Mailer ; his bio up until this article shows no other published stories but a recent book on black athletes got some media attention.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Earley, Sandra "The Woman Who Wants to Save the World." Corporate Report Minnesota. June 1996. p(p): 43 (Marjorie Kelley, founder and publisher of Business Ethics magazine) interview/profile of MK?]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine tried to bring the story to other magazines without success, and finally Business Ethics, a small financially struggling publication, paid him $300 for the story and published it. Entine then turned around and made a $1000 donation to the magazine (S.Earley, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996). The publication of this story, to which Business Ethics would not allow a rebuttal, damaged TBS' image and stock value. Two years after the article appeared, Entine's wife Ellen Turner was hired to be a marketing executive for The Limited, the parent company of TBS' largest US competitor, Bath and Body Works.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, to use a favorite Entine word, a bizarre thing occurred during a 1997 lecture at Trent University in Canada: Entine stated that "Of course, The Body Shop is better than 99% of companies". But why doesn't he WRITE that? When pressed at Trent about why he doesn't pursue corporate criminals like Shell Oil over their Nigerian operations (an issue TBS has campaigned on since 1993), he had no answer.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Better World Zine, with Martha Nichols, Entine said: "Moreover, to begin to compare Body Shop with a GE or Dow Chemical or biotechnology companies, with Body Shop coming out BETTER in the comparison, is beyond liberal-think bizarre. GE and the rest are hardly pristine and I make NO wholesale defense of them. But the issue is social change. A 1% change in the behavior of GE will have more impact than creating a thousand new kooky left wing organic companies". (Jon Entine and Martha Nichols, Better World Zine, website)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Note how Entine aligns "kooky left wing" and "organic companies". Smart readers will also ask just WHICH 1% change GE might have in mind: laying off 1% fewer employees than planned? Like others of his ilk, Entine skillfully uses the temperament, semantics and vehicles of progressive and investigative journalism to gain sympathy with editors and readers. Not all are fooled however; Jay Harris of Mother Jones magazine reports that Entine called him and that "he began our conversation with a 20-minute rant about The Body Shop being the most evil company (he had) ever encountered in 20 years of investigative reporting". Harris goes on: "Mother Jones has exposed the deadly explosive tendencies of the Pinto and broke the story on the Dalkon Shield. This guy is talking about a company that spilled a few gallons of Fuzzy Peach Shampoo. He clearly had an axe to grind and was willing to let that take precedence over the facts".</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Entine's TBS attack, he referred to a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of a small shampoo spill from TBS' New Jersey operations. But he failed to say that it was HE who called in the complaint (later whiting out his name,a fact he concealed), that FDA found the TBS facility to actually be well-run, and that FDA, upon completing all inspections, is bound by law to make recommendations regardless of how clean the facility may be. (FDA Report Summary of Findings, 1123).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most recently, Entine took on Working Assets Long Distance for allegedly deceiving customers who subscribed to them without knowing that nuclear-generated electricity was included in the electricity mix delivered to customers. But Entine's own views on nuclear power are suspect. In comments on a draft energy policy paper written by an activist on Long Island he said, in reference to nuclear power: .."to me, measured up against the conceivable dangers of coal-generated electricity, it is a potentially attractive alternative". And to the undersigned he wrote: "Your myopia..on nuclear energy reminds me of the statement that being against defense spending is 'socially responsible' or 'liberal'. It's a ridiculously shallow statement...I am thankful that we developed enough of a military deterrent to curb the Soviet Union and to be able to have challenged Iraq". To the Association of Organizational Management he said: "There is a world of difference between the mutant nuclear energy facility at Seabrook..and, say, the ones operated by Duke Power. With new technology and potential for deep core disposal of nuclear waste, it is time that we revisit this as part of a long-range plan at future energy needs.."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Monsanto's Robert Shapiro is a 'CEO leading the charge into the new era of business ethics'", (Business Ethics Magazine, Jan.. 96).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's attacks on TBS, Greenpeace and other progressive organizations are in no way balanced by any critical analysis of major polluting or exploitive corporations. On the contrary, Entine's writings set up as shining examples corporations like DuPont, General Motors, Monsanto and Duke Power. Ignoring the fact that Monsanto, a leading chemical manufacturer and biotechnology giant (maker of Agent Orange) is pressuring the government to allow its products onto the market without adequate testing, fighting to prevent labelling of genetically engineered foods, has threatened small dairy farmers who want to label their milk as free of RBGH (the Monsanto artificial growth hormone) and has attempted to bribe the Canadian consumer agency into approving its products without testing, Entine says: "Monsanto has made a lot of progress in developing pro-active models to limit chemical pollution". Entine boasts of his friend Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce, who was a paid Monsanto consultant, and claims Hawken's work for Monsanto has resulted in its instituting "significant environmental reforms". But there is no mention of Monsanto's ongoing efforts to subvert the political process in order to get its untested genetically engineered products and dangerous chemicals to a wider market. Meanwhile, Ben & Jerry's, who Entine has called "slippery and unethical" (Jon Entine, Students for Responsible Business website), recently fought and won, against Monsanto's wrath, the right to label their products to be free of recombinant bovine growth hormone, a right that was won against Monsanto and for all US dairy farmers and consumers.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crop Chemophobia: Are We Over-Regulating Pesticides?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 18, 2011</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is the proper balance between crop protection and environmental and public health considerations? AEI scholar Jon Entine explores this question in a new edited volume, Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Bloody Crossroads of Science and Policy: Personal Genomics</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September 24, 2010</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public policy debates are increasingly based on matters of science, from issues such as energy and climate change to health and food safety. Yet the results of these debates vary, with good legislative outcomes when the available scientific evidence is used objectively and bad policy choices when it is interpreted subjectively in pursuit of a preordained policy agenda. Jon oversees a panel on the regulatory outlook for the burgeoning personal genomics industry. This "bloody crossroads" of science and policy was the subject at AEI.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although regulatory authorities in the United States, most of Europe, Australia, and Japan have approved as safe the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA)--ubiquitous in plastic products and the lining of metal cans--controversy remains over its potential health effects when found in low doses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are reevaluating the chemical. Precautionary" regulatory actions, are underway in numerous jurisdictions, including in the U.S. Congress. At this conference, policy experts and scientists participated in a nonpartisan dialogue about the risks and benefits of using, or choosing not to use, BPA and whether a more precautionary approach should be adopted in regulating chemicals.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Science and Technology in the Balance? Food Security, Precaution, and the Pesticide Debate</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 6, 2009</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 27 European Union (EU) governments have instituted new criteria that could ultimately blacklist around twenty-two chemicals--about fifteen percent of the EU pesticides market--used by the agricultural and pest control industries. The EU regulation embraces a more restrictive hazard structure based upon the "precautionary principle," which contends that some chemicals are intrinsically dangerous at any level, even absent definitive risk data. The new ban has been challenged by some policy experts concerned that it could damage food security while yielding limited or no health benefits.Proponents of the new pesticide regulations hail them as necessary precautions for addressing the unknown cumulative effects of chemical residues.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Capitalism, Freedom, and Jewish Accomplishment: The Israel Test</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 28, 2009 </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Israel faces hostility and pressure from religious enemies on its borders. But in a new book, "The Israel Test," author George Gilder reveals that Israel has also become "the crucial battlefield for capitalism and freedom in our time." In Gilder's telling, Israel has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a bastion of technological progress and commercial and scientific advance. Israeli Jews have achieved enormous success in areas ranging from business to the arts. Gilder argues that "if we allow Israel to be quelled or destroyed, we will be succumbing to forces targeting capitalism and freedom everywhere."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Coming Age of the Uber-Athlete: What's So Bad about Gene Enhancement and Doping? </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 18, 2008</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is said to be sports' doomsday scenario: a new generation of chemically enhanced or bioengineered athletes transformed from also- rans into world champions. We are entering an age often referred to as posthumanist, and sport is its leading edge, benefiting from dramatic advances in medical technology, reconstructive surgery, and drug therapy. Most physiologists, ethicists, and sport authorities have attempted to draw a line — one that critics say is hazy and unenforceable — that makes certain performance-enhancing drugs and gene manipulation off limits.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporate Responsibility in an Era of New Internationalism</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 14, 2008</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporations and governments are witnessing a resurgence of political and economic internationalism. Increasingly prominent issues such as the global financial crisis, the environment, human rights, the developing world, and trade policy have galvanized efforts by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international governmental organizations to become more deeply involved in government and corporate policies. Considering that these are often contentiously debated issues, to what degree should sovereign governments be held accountable to these demands? How should corporations respond in light of their classic responsibility as wealth generators and engines of the world economy?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporate Image Advertising and the Future of Free Enterprise </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 4, 2007</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crisis management has become the latest fashion in building a corporate reputation. Companies that come under siege from interest groups, trial lawyers, and the press wage image campaigns to make themselves "better liked" — and often do so by playing down their capitalist purpose. Do these campaigns mislead the public? Do they validate the belief that for-profit entities are inherently corrupt and, therefore, injuring them is a virtuous act — not to mention a victimless crime? Does corporate social responsibility represent a good business strategy in the long run, or has reputation management become, in effect, an apology for making money? If so, does this trend ultimately pose a threat to free enterprise?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is Nuclear Power a Solution to Global Warming and Rising Energy Prices? </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 6, 2006</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Has the threat of global warming and soaring fossil fuel costs changed the prospects for nuclear energy? Advocates stress its potential cost-effectiveness and the coming generation of safe, efficient plants. Critics maintain that efficiency is a mirage and that environmental uncertainties remain. While technological advances have made nuclear power plants safer than ever, the United States has not ordered a new one since the 1970s. Yet new nuclear facilities are coming on line in India, China, and eastern Europe, while the United Kingdom and other G-8 countries have cautiously endorsed a move toward nuclear energy as an alternative to expensive and greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuel plants. Whether the legacies of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and a determined political opposition will derail new construction remains to be seen. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 23, 2006</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daily horror stories in the media about unfit doctors, unhealthy foods, dangerous chemicals, soaring gas prices, and incompetent child care have created a culture of fear. But is that fear well-founded? A panel of AEI experts, moderated by Jon Entine, and ABC's John Stossel, author of Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (Hyperion, May 2006), tackled the misconceptions, misrepresentations, and plain inanity that plague our society, including the role of law, genetics, and environmental activism in today's world.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business? </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 3, 2006</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is Corporate Social Responsibility really a win-win situation as its promoters claim for both corporations and the public? Corporate leaders struggle with determining to whom their social responsibilities extend: to shareholders, employees, local communities, the environment, humanity as a whole, future generations? This conference examined the complex global CSR phenomenon and took an in-depth look at Wal-Mart, which has been under fire for some of its corporate, social, and environmental practices.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Check out press coverage in Tech Central Station and National Review.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Panic Attack: The New Precautionary Culture, the Politics of Fear, and the Threat to Innovation </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 14, 2006</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our culture is in the grip of the "precautionary principle." From agricultural biotechnology and biomedicine to geopolitics, international business, education, and our most intimate relationships, risk aversion has become a defining and paralyzing ethic of our time. The notion that we should forsake the products and benefits of new technologies until it is proven that no adverse effects could result reflects an obsessive fear of the unknown. This conference, organized in cooperation with the UK Institute of Ideas, suggested that only by challenging the wider risk-averse culture that permeates contemporary society can we hope to rediscover a sense of purpose about progress and a desire to experiment with new ways of doing things.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NGOs: Indispensable or Unaccountable?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 7, 2005</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Government and international aid agencies have come to depend on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to implement their development policy programs. Corporations are increasingly expected to consult with NGOs prior to making investments in the developing world. Yet the long-term impact and effectiveness of NGOs is largely unknown. Does the U.S. government rely too much on NGOs in its aid efforts? Or are NGOs the only way to stop corrupt governments from lining their pockets with aid money? What should the relationship between corporations and NGOs be?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Science Wars: Should Schools Teach Intelligent Design? </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 21, 2005</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What should public schools teach about life's origins? This debate has erupted anew because of the growing interest in intelligent design (ID) the notion that intelligent causes are responsible for the origin of the universe and of life in all its diversity. Proponents of teaching alternatives to evolution are now lobbying state legislatures and pressing school districts to incorporate ID into science curricula. Alarmed scientists and educators see ID as a disguised form of creationism and a direct attack on the scientific method and critical thinking. Is intelligent design religion or science? Would the teaching of intelligent design violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause? </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Check out press coverage by the National Center for Science Education, the American Geological Institute.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Business of Stem Cells: Re-Examining Federal, State, and Private Funding and Regulatory Initiatives</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 9, 2005</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because of limitations on federal support for human embryonic stem cell research, the regulatory and research funding picture has become increasingly complex. Many states, led by California with the passage of Proposition 71, have begun setting up their own initiatives. There are concerns about the impact of the restrictive federal policy and the repercussions of private-public initiatives with limited federal oversight.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conference sparked many articles, including in Chemical and Engineering News, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, BNA Medical Research News.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Race, Medicine, and Public Policy </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 12, 2004</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Should “race” be considered in medical diagnoses and research? Check out the details about the AEI forum that Jon organized and view Jon's presentation on “Jewish Diseases,” a key part of his upcoming book, Abraham's Children, which will be published during 2005. (Read the UPI interview with Jon, "Tracing Jewish History Through Genes,” on his upcoming book.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read an article on the AEI "Race and Medicine" conference in American Medical News and a thoughtfulUSA Today editorial on the issue of ‘race and science' by Michael Crane, who attended the AEI conference.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How to Save the Planet (Really) (.pdf)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Enterprise Magazine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 2005 (Quoting Jon about the conference)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Socially Responsible" Investing and Pension Funds </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Welcome Reform or Fiduciary Nightmare?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 7, 2004</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Socially responsible” investing (SRI), which incorporates nonfinancial social and ethical criteria, has attracted significant publicity in recent years and sparked interest among some institutional investors, public pension funds, and Social Security reform advocates, particularly in the wake of recent corporate scandals. SRI adherents claim that one of every ten dollars in United States markets is invested using SRI principles. Although those claims are widely disputed, there is no question that public and some private pension programs are being asked to consider if and when they should include social and ideological screens when making investments. Social investing is not an exclusively American phenomenon. It is popular in Britain and Europe, and governments from Malaysia to Sweden to Canada have utilized pension funds to support stock markets or to make loans or create incentives with explicit social goals. Is this trend welcomed or a threat to fiduciary independence and responsibilities?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics Fear Pension Activism (quoting Jon) </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Hafetz, New York</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sunday, July 22, 2004</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biotechnology, the Media, and Public Policy </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 12, 2003</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For more than two decades, scientists have been working to develop a range of animal, agricultural, and industrial products (such as foods and pharmaceuticals) made with the help of genetic modification. As has often been the case with the introduction of new scientific methods, gene manipulation has stirred intense and contentious debates. This sometimes-confrontational atmosphere has limited the use of this new technology by negatively shaping public attitudes and government policies toward bioengineering around the world. This conference will focus on the origins of this debate; how the dialogue on genetic modification has shaped public policy around the world; how it impacts the commercial realities of companies developing new products; how it might alter the course of future research; and what strategies might be formulated to develop a more rational public policy that would foster more constructive discussion over the costs and benefits of genetic manipulation.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We're Not from the Government, but We're Here to Help You </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon's paper: "Why NGO-Stakeholder Dialogue Can Endanger Corporate Social Responsibility" American</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 11, 2003</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent years, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have proliferated, their rise facilitated by governments and corporations desperate to subcontract development projects. While many NGOs have made significant contributions to human rights, the environment, and economic and social development, a lack of international standards for NGO accountability also allows far less credible organizations to have a significant influence on policymaking. The growing power of supranational organizations and a loose set of rules governing the accreditation of NGOs has meant that an unelected few have access to growing and unregulated power. NGOs have created their own rules and regulations and demanded that governments and corporations abide by those rules. Many nations’ legal systems encourage NGOs to use the courts-or the specter of the courts-to compel compliance. Politicians and corporate leaders are often forced to respond to the NGO media machine, and the resources of taxpayers and shareholders are used in support of ends they did not intend to sanction.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Jon's paper: "Why NGO-Stakeholder Dialogue Can Endanger Corporate Social Responsibility" June 11, 2003</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is an American author and journalist. He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University[1] and a senior fellow at the think tank STATS (Statistical Assessment Service).[2][3] He is the founder and director of the Genetic Literacy Project.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After spending twenty years as a network news writer and producer for NBC News and ABC News, Entine moved into scholarly research and print journalism. Having written and edited seven books, Entine writes a column for the international magazine Ethical Corporation[4] and Forbes magazine,[5]and contributes to newspapers and magazines around the world.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents  [hide] </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 Background</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Television journalism</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 The Body Shop controversy</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 Genetics</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 Think tank affiliations</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 Personal life</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Books</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 References</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 External links</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1952 and later relocated with his family to the suburb ofCheltenham. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1974 with a B.A. in philosophy. Entine co-directed the presidential primary campaign for Senator George McGovern in Sullivan County in New Hampshire in 1972. After graduation, he became the assistant director for the re-election campaign of Father Robert Drinan, a liberalDemocratic Congressman from suburban Boston. He currently lives in Cincinnati.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Television journalism[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine began his journalism career in high school, when he worked as a weekend copyboy for the CBS owned-and-operated TV station then known as WCAU. During his freshman year of college, he edited and produced the 11 p.m. news for the local NBC affiliate in West Hartford/New Britain. After the 1974 Congressional campaign, in January 1975, Entine was hired as a writer by the ABC News program AM America, which was renamed Good Morning America the following year. Entine worked for ABC News as a writer, assignment desk editor, and producer in New York City and Chicago from 1975-1983 for various ABC News programs, including the ABC Evening News, 20/20 and Nightline. He took a leave of absence from ABC News in 1981-1982 to study at the University of Michigan under a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in journalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine joined NBC News in New York in 1984 as a special segment producer for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, where he worked until 1990. He became Brokaw’s long-time producer. In 1989, Entine and Brokaw collaborated to write and produce Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, named Best International Sports Film of 1989. Entine was later named the executive in charge of documentaries at NBC News (1989–1990). He rejoined ABC News in 1991 as an investigative producer for Primetime (TV series). In 1993 Entine produced a story with reporter Sam Donaldson on eye surgery clinics that led to a lawsuit against them and Primetime alleging trespass and defamation due to the use of "test patients". The case was mostly dismissed in January 1995 and a defamation suit was dismissed in 2000.[6][7] He produced a prime time special on the Miss America Pageant, "Miss America: Beyond the Crown" for NBC Entertainment in 1994 before transitioning to book writing and print journalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop controversy[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine wrote the September 1994 investigative article, "Shattered Image: Is The Body Shop Too Good to Be True?",[8] inBusiness Ethics magazine, created an international brouhaha and led to hundreds of stories in the international media, including articles in The New York Times and a report on ABC World News Tonight. The Body Shop, the British-based international cosmetics company, which until that point had been considered a model "socially responsible" company, tried to block the story from being published:[9] The flurry of news stories spurred by the company's attempt to quash the article and its eventual publication led to a temporary 50% drop in the market value of the stock of The Body Shop.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine reported that Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, in 1976, had stolen the name, store design, marketing concept and most product line ideas from a different cosmetic chain with the same name, The Body Shop, founded in 1970 in San Francisco by two California women, and subsequently fabricated her story of traveling around the world discovering exotic beauty ingredients. (In 1989, Roddick purchased the U.S. and Israeli rights to The Body Shop name from the original Body Shop founders, and the San Francisco based chain of five stores renamed itself Body Time). He reported that Roddick's "natural" products contained extensive amounts of artificial colorings, scents and preservatives. In contrast to statements by Roddick, unverified reports in popular articles, and even some university case studies claiming that Roddick and The Body Shop "gave most of its profits to charity," documents from Britain's Charity Commission showed that the company gave nothing to charity over its first 11 years and was penurious in its philanthropy thereafter. The Body Shop also faced millions of dollars in claims by disenchanted franchisees, who believed they had been enticed to buy franchises by misrepresenting its potential revenue.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The article in Business Ethics (now defunct), which was cited with a National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism in 1994, is widely used in university business ethics classes and is generally credited with prompting companies claiming to be socially responsible to match their claims with operational practices and to increase transparency.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Shattered Image" had originally been scheduled to be published as a 10,000 word feature in Vanity Fair earlier in 1994 but was dropped after legal threats by The Body Shop, which threatened to litigate under British libel law, which requires proof of innocence by defendants rather than proof of guilt by the prosecution. The original article was eventually published in 2004 by The Nation Books in Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print, edited by David Wallis. Business Ethics, which had featured Roddick on its cover just the year before, printed a much shorter version of the exposé commissioned for Vanity Fair. "Shattered Image" and subsequent writings by Entine on the emerging "socially responsible" business movement challenged the belief that companies that promote themselves as socially conscious necessarily operate with a higher degree of ethics or social responsibility than conventional companies. Entine's writing focused on what he called "reality rather than rhetoric" of ethical business. He is often credited for coining the term "green washing",[10] which refers to the deceptive marketing exploits of self-professed "green" companies.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Genetics[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is the founding director of the Genetic Literacy Project, which is under the umbrella of STATS at George Mason University, and is affiliated with the Center for Risk & Health Communication. It focuses on the intersection of media, policy and genetics, both human and agricultural. Entine himself is not a geneticist, and only has a BA degree in philosophy and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in journalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has written three books on genetics and two on chemicals. Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution addresses the controversy over genetic modification in agriculture.[11] His first book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It was inspired by the documentary on black athletes written with Brokaw in 1989.[citation needed] It was favorably reviewed by The New York Times[12] and numerous other publications, and were some critical reviews, claiming that the subject was inappropriate as it could encourage a racialist view of human relations.[13]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2007, Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People was published, which examined the shared ancestry of Jews, Christians and Muslims, and addressed the question "Who is a Jew?" as seen through the prism of DNA.[14] Kirkus Reviews called the book an epic tale of 'The Chosen People'...Engaging and informative reading for Jews and non-Jews alike. According to Library Journal, [Jon Entine's] explorations take him from his own Jewish family members' cancer diagnoses to genetic labs—both academic and commercial—across the world, with lengthy forays into Jewish history, the history of Israel and Zionism, and the split between social anthropology and biological anthropology.Harry Ostrer in Nature Genetics called it a broad, well-documented sweep of Jewish history that will inform even the most knowledgeable of readers".[15]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is a public speaker on genetics and identity for the Jewish National Fund and the Jewish Federations of North America.[16]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Think tank affiliations[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011, Entine joined the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University[1] and GMU's STATS (Statistical Assessment Service),[2] as senior fellow and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, which focuses on the nexus of genetics—human and agricultural—with the media and public policy. Entine joined the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research as an adjunct scholar in 2002, and is now a visiting scholar. His research focuses on science and society and corporate sustainability. AEI Press has published three books written and edited by Entine: Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (February 2011), which analyzes the impact of chemicals in agriculture; Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (January 2006), which examined the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. He has also contributed to numerous academic books on a variety of subjects, including sports, genetics, leadership, and sustainability.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Personal life[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has won 19 journalism awards, including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union and a National Press Club award in Consumer Journalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has faced criticism for his alleged links to various corporate interests, though he denied this accusation. Entine said he is "an Obama Democrat".[17]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Books[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It, 2000, ISBN 1-58648-026-X</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing, 2005, ISBN 0-8447-4218-X* Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health, 2011, ISBN 978-0-578-07561-7</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution, 2006, ISBN 0-8447-4200-7</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People, 2008, ISBN 0-446-58063-5</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No Crime But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extrajudicial Prosecution, 2009, ISBN 978-0-692-00282-7</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? 2011, ISBN 978-0-8447-4361-5</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b "Founding CHRC Faculty Scholars". The Center for Health and Risk Communication. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Jump up to:a b "STATS - Staff". George Mason University. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Statistical_Assessment_Service</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Jon Entine - articles". ethicalcorp.com. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Contributor Jon Entine". Forbes. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Russomanno, Joseph (2002). "J.H. Desnick, M.D. Eye Services, Ltd., et al. vs American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Jon Entine, and Sam Donaldson". Speaking our minds: conversations with the people behind landmark First Amendment cases. Psychology Press. pp. 134–169.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Libel suit against ABC’s ‘PrimeTime Live’ dismissed". The News Media & The Law. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Winter 2001. Retrieved 4 October 2011.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "The Body Shop File: Beyond "Shattered Image"". Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Dixon, Cyril (28 August 1994). "Besieged Body Shop comes out fighting". London: The Independent. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture". Goodreads. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Bernstein, Richard (January 14, 2000). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; The Race to the Swift. Or Is It the Swift to the Race?".The New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "BREAKING THE TABOO ON RACE AND SPORTS". New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People". Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ A genetic view of Jewish history. Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People By Jon Entine. Grand Central Publishing, 2007. 432 pp., hardcover, $27.99 ISBN 978-0-446-58063-2. Reviewed by Harry Ostrer. Nature Genetics 2008, 40:2</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ "Jon Entine". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 November 2013.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump up^ Philpott, Tom. "The Making of an Agribusiness Apologist". MotherJones. Retrieved 5 February 2014.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External links[edit]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine's home page</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Books written by Jon Entine on Amazon.com</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Genetic Literacy Project home page</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abraham's Children's website</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ESG MediaMetrics.com website</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop File: Beyond "Shattered Image"</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body ShopIn September 1994, Jon's article in Business Ethics on The Body Shop cosmetic company, "Shattered Image: Is The Body Shop Too Good to Be True?" forever shattered the 'socially responsible' business myth. The article, which was honored with a National Press Club Award, carefully documented the exploitative business practices and hypocritical marketing of many firms that promote themselves as progressive and "green." This article became an instant classic in business ethics studies. It is copyrighted by Jon and is not available for electronic viewing. However, if you are interested in reading it and can't find it in your library, you can contact Jon directly.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop saga, as it came to be known, is one of the most intriguing case studies in modern business. Jon has since written numerous articles on this brouhaha, some of which are below. Those articles are followed by some commentaries, case studies, and analyses of The Body Shop and "green business" by others.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Researchers might be particularly interested in the "Social and Environmental Audit of The Body Shop," which I produced first in 1996, as background research on the company. At the time, Body Shop had hired the Hill & Knowlton public relations firm (which launched the tobacco lobby) and the notorious corporate British law firm Lovell White Durrant. I had only the facts on my side.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Note that this analysis was prepared without the cooperation of Body Shop. In fact, BSI has engaged in numerous covert and overt attempts to block such research and discourage its dissemination. Considering these limitations, and to the best of the author's understanding, this review of Body Shop's character and operations is factually accurate and in context.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A Social and Environmental Audit of The Body Shop: Anita Roddick and the Question of Character" Jon Entine © 1996, 2003</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Note: This Body Shop Social Audit is public record and can be quoted or utilized in research without clearance from me.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anita Roddick CartoonBody Flop: The Inside Story of the Hypocrisy</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">of Anita Roddick and The Body Shop </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon's never-before published exposé on the ethical shenanigans of Anita Roddick and The Body Shop is now available in a new book,Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print (Nation Books, 2004). Read reviews in Salon, MediaBistro, Las Vegas Weekly, and the Vancouver Sun.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read Jon's explosive "social and environmental integrity audit"</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">of Roddick and The Body Shop</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon's Articles</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anita Roddick's Body Shop Scam (citing Jon)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Sunday Express (India) January 9, 2011</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Myth of the Green Queen</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Post (Canada), September 21, 2007</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anita Roddick's 'Unfair Trade' Started When She Copied Body Shop Formula,</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mail on Sunday, September 16, 2007</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Body Shop Ethical, Financial Woes Spread to Australia</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Australian Financial Review, December 18, 2002</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Body Flop: Anita Roddick proclaimed that business could be caring as well as capitalist. Today The Body Shop is struggling on both counts. R.O.B. - Toronto Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, May 31, 2002</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">High St Chain's Idealism Masks a Harsh Reality</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mail on Sunday, August 2001</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Queen of Bubble Bath</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRAZZIL magazine, December 1996</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Green Lies and the "Socially Responsible Business" Movement</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">British Columbia Environmental Network, 1996</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Caring Capitalism? </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sunday Times (UK), December 1995</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rainforest Chic</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Globe and Mail's ROB: Report on Business, October 1995</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exploiting Idealism: How The Body Shop Betrayed its Customers</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utne Reader, January/February 1995</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Commentaries on The Body Shop and Jon's Reporting</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anita Roddick's Body Shop: An Empire Built on a Ruse? </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Public Radio: Scott Simon's Commentary on Jon's Investigations of Green Companies, September 15, 2007</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anita Roddick: Life after The Body Shop </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">M. Taufiqurrahman, The Jakarta Post, April 13, 2006</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grass Is Green for Amazon Farmers Tony Smith (quoting Jon)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New York Times, October 8, 2003</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unforgettable: Anita Roddick Went Against the Grain </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Global Cosmetic Industry, September 1, 2002.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop: The Ethics of the Diesel-Driven "Queen of Green" </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marty Venalainen, March 2002</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Disenfranchised, Carlye Adler </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fortune, September 6, 2001</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trade and Environment Database (TED) Body Shop Case Study November 17, 2000</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preventing Ethical Failures in Socially Responsible Businesses </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Review of Business, Fall 1978</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Le Body Shop Blues</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeremy Josephs, 1999</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">London Greenpeace Analyzes The Body Shop</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 1998</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Can the Body Shop Shape Up?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fortune, April 1996</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Broken Promises: Former Brazilian Advisor to Body Shop</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brazzil Magazine, December 1996</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Animal People News, 1996 </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Criticizes The Body Shop</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Socially Responsible Business Brawl: </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Business Ethics' Magazine Criticizes Cosmetic Maker Body Shop</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progressive, March 1995</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Green Cosmetics: The Definition Undergoes Broadening but Consumer Interest Remains High</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Drug & Cosmetic Industry, February 1995</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Body Shop International Takes Heat With Ethics Charges </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Public Radio Morning Edition, September 7, 1994</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trillium Asset Management (formerly Franklin Research and Development) Scrutinizes the Social and Ethical Claims of The Body Shop </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September 15, 1994</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roddick's Body Shop: An Empire Built on a Ruse?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by SCOTT SIMON</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September 15, 2007 8:00 AM ET</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick died this week at age 64. She created a cosmetics empire that sold good works as much as good scents: its products were branded as "pure" and not tested on animals. Alas, Roddick's ethical business claims turned to be dubious, says Scott Simon.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What a story was Anita Roddick. The daughter of immigrants, she worked on a kibbutz and opened a cosmetic shop in Brighton, England, in 1976 with a baby on her back. She made products that she said were pure and good, and got customers to bring in their own bottles.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the time she died this week at age 64, Dame Anita Roddick was the fourth richest woman in Britain and the Body Shop had grown to more than 2,000 outlets around the world. I remember buying stuff in one of their fragrant first stores in London's Covent Garden. The Satsuma Soap smelled terrific, but didn't seem to clean very well. I think I blamed it on the London water.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine wrote about Anita Roddick's empire of good scents and alleged good works for Business Ethics magazine in 1994. It is one of the most devastating investigations I have ever read.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Entine established that the products the Body Shop called 100 percent pure were, in fact, only about 1 percent so. They were mostly made from cheap cosmetic petrochemicals, which the Body Shop did not list on its store signs.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientists pointed out that in greens like avocado, banana, green apple and grapefruit would rot within days without chemical preservatives. Those appealing stories about a pineapple face wash that was an ancient secret of Tasmanian women or the healing nut butters of Amazon tribal people, the Roddicks had never gone there, much less brought back secrets.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The stories were themselves beauty concoctions to charm customers who wanted to believe in the wisdom of ancient peoples, instead of chemists and corporations. Dame Anita scolded a meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce for not boycotting products from China.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Jon Entine got to ask her why the Body Shop bought packaging from Chinese manufacturers, she said I was talking about what business should do, not what we actually do. My job is to inspire, but we have a bloody business to run after all.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop famously advertised that its products weren't tested on animals, but Jon Entine pointed out that most of the ingredients in its products were tested on animals. So it changed its trademark phrase from, Not Tested on Animals to Against Animal Testing. Has a cigarette company ever come up with a more cunning slogan?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dame Anita Roddick made green into a popular brand. Her legacy is visible on the label of every soap or shampoo that boasts of being natural, organic or pure. Some of her fans were distressed when Dame Anita sold the Body Shop stores to L'Oreal for a billion dollars.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dame Anita said she hoped her business ethics would work their way into the French multinational cosmetics firm, instead of the other way around. Maybe they already had.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Introduction</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biography</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cover-up, intimidation and ‘paid-for research’</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine’s involvement with ACSH (Defense of atrazine)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine connections and funding organizations</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine as journalist hit-man</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine’s legal issues</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine refuted </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I. Jon Entine – Introduction</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is a media-savvy corporate propagandist and pseudo-journalist who fronts the opinions and positions of chemical corporations by pretending to be an independent journalist. He has ties to biotech companies Monsanto and Syngenta while playing a key role in another industry front group known as the American Council on Science and Health, a thinly-veiled corporate front group that Sourcewatch describes as holding “a generally apologetic stance regarding virtually every other health and environmental hazard produced by modern industry, accepting corporate funding from Coca-Cola, Kellogg, General Mills, Pepsico, and the American Beverage Association, among others.” (Sourcewatch.org)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine knowingly and repeatedly publishes false and fictitious information in mainstream publications including Forbes.com, and his posts are often retracted after being challenged on their lack of factual basis. His actions against targeted individuals or companies are systematically abusive and resemble “revenge journalism.” Entine takes a “hit man” approach to single out individuals – especially critics of GMOs – for accusations and abuse, often calling them names or implying they are sociopaths or a danger to society.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine’s deep involvement in the propaganda of poison-pushing corporations is also reflected in his own personal life, where he remains embattled in a bitter seven-year divorce during which he engaged in highly questionable behavior such as threatening his young daughter’s therapist with a lawsuit if he continued to provide therapy sessions. At one point during the divorce, Entine’s ex-wife pleaded with the court to demand a psychiatric evaluation of Entine, for which he refused to volunteer.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A protection order against Entine was issued by the courts in relation to his divorce battle. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">II. Biography</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is currently a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., a columnist for the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation,?? and co-founder of E.S.G.Metrics, which advises business and NGOs on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, including sustainability and executive leadership (Sourcewatch). His most recent clients have included KKR, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Proctor & Gamble, American Greetings, Monsanto, DHL/Deutsche Post, Fischer Homes, and Pomeroy IT Solutions.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine writes for academic and popular publications around the world and is a frequent television and radio commentator on business issues, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, NPR, and BBC. He has written and edited five books, most recently No Crime But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extra-judicial Prosecution (TFG Books, 2009), which focuses on the dangers of overzealous government prosecutors and the threat they pose to American civil liberties.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before launching his consulting and writing career, he spent 20 years as a network television news producer, winning more than twenty awards including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced news magazine programs at ABC News and CBS News, an entertainment special for NBC, and was Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News, where he was also the executive in charge of documentaries.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of Entine’s books, “Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture”(AEI Press, 2006), purports to examine the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. But it is clear that the book is critical of anyone who questions the safety of GMO foods or otherwise supports further regulation of it, perhaps through legislation requiring GMO foods to be labeled, or by limiting the proximity of GM crops to fields planted with non-GM crops.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though he is listed as a “visiting scholar”…http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/meet-jon-entine-pro-monsanto-gmo-activist-and-pro-bill-gates-activist/#.U4zcivldWSo </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">III. Cover-up, intimidation and ‘paid-for research’</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History of atrazine controversy. Over the past decade there has been growing controversy concerning atrazine, an herbicide of the triazine class. Atrazine is manufactured by Syngenta, a major biotechnology company, and the chemical is widely used in the United States and Australia to stop pre and post-emergence broadleaf and grassy weeds in crops such as sorghum, maize, sugarcane, lupins, pine and eucalypt plantations, and triazine tolerant (TT) canola.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of 2014, in the U.S., atrazine was the second-most-widely used agricultural chemical after glyphosate (which goes under the trade name of Roundup, which was developed and is sold by Monsanto). Nearly 80 million pounds of atrazine is applied to U.S. crops annually [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3733-2004Aug15_2.html]. As noted in an August 15, 2004, Washington Post story (see above link), atrazine is, according to the EPA, “the most prevalent herbicide in ground and surface water, remaining stable and toxic for decades in some environments.”Further, “It is also a major source of revenue for Syngenta, a Swiss company with U.S. headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., that sells hundreds of millions of dollars’worth of the chemical every year.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post story noted that for years, the primary concern regarding atrazine was cancer, noting that “the chemical clearly causes cancer in rats.”Further, the Post reported, “male workers in Syngenta’s production facility in Louisiana have experienced much higher rates of prostate cancer than other men statewide. But studies supported by Syngenta recently convinced the EPA that the mechanism by which atrazine causes cancer in rats probably does not occur in people.”The company’s reasoning for the higher rates of prostate cancer among its Louisiana workers “is that it has an aggressive screening program that finds cases that would otherwise go undetected.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post story further reported that previous studies on frogs were performed by biologist Tyrone Hayes, a U.C./Berkeley professor who found that tiny doses of atrazine affects frogs’sexual development. When Hayes “sought to publish his work and have the data considered by the EPA, the company told him to run the tests again, said Hayes and Tim Pastoor, a Syngenta vice president. When repeated studies confirmed the worrisome link, Hayes was reminded that his contract forbade him to publish without Syngenta’s approval. He was told that his data ought to be passed to a company-selected statistician for double-checking.”Hayes quit the company he was working for at the time, EcoRisk, and published his findings on his own in a pair of peer-reviewed journals (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Enter Entine, Syngenta intimidation and the American Council on Science and Health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intimidation. (Per Wikipedia) “In 2014, New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv reported that Syngenta might have been orchestrating an attack on the “scientific credibility”of not just Tyrone Hayes, the lead critic of atrazine use, but other scientists as well whose studies have shown atrazine to have negative effects on the environment and/or human and animal health [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all].</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Paul Winchester, a professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, wrote a paper that was published in Acta Paediatrica [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1651-2227.2008.01207.x/full] reviewing national records for thirty million births, found that children conceived between April and July, when the concentration of atrazine, mixed with other pesticides, in water is highest, were more likely to have genital birth defects. Professor Winchester subsequently received a subpoena requesting that he turn over to Syngenta every e-mail he had written about atrazine in the past decade.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Deborah Cory-Slechta, a professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and a former member of the EPA’s science advisory board, said that she, too, had felt that Syngenta was trying to ‘undermine’her work, after she published a study showing that the herbicide paraquat may contribute to diseases of the nervous system. “The folks from Syngenta used to follow me to my talks and tell me I wasn’t using ‘human-relevant doses’,”Cory-Slechta said. ‘They would go up to my students and try to intimidate them. There was this sustained campaign to make it look like my science wasn’t legitimate.’</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In one of the e-mails obtained by class-action suit plaintiffs, the company’s communications consultants had written in 2005 that they “wanted to obtain Hayes’s calendar of speaking engagements,”so that Syngenta could “start reaching out to the potential audiences with the Error vs. Truth Sheet,”which would provide “irrefutable evidence of his polluted messages.”Syngenta subsequently stated that many of the documents unsealed in the lawsuits refer to “ideas that were never implemented.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientific abuse. By 2012, a lot had happened regarding atrazine. As of 2001, Atrazine was the most commonly detected pesticide contaminating drinking water in the United States. By 2004 it had been banned for use by the European Union. Later, scientists would learn that the endocrine system was the system in humans and animals alike that atrazine targeted most heavily, while a 2008 study would report that tadpoles developed deformed hearts and impaired kidneys and digestive systems when exposed to atrazine in their early stages of life. Tissue malformation may have been induced by ectopic programmed cell death, although a mechanism was not identified [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235211/]. The following year, in 2009, The New York Times discussed how atrazine could be a potential cause of birth defects, low birth weights and menstrual problems when consumed at concentrations below federal standards [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/us/23water.html?r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all&].</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012 an epidemiological study showed that women who lived in counties in Texas with the highest levels of atrazine being used on agricultural crops were 80 times more likely to give birth to infants with choanal atresia or stenosis compared to women who lived in the counties with the lowest levels [https://www.bcm.edu/news/hematology/study-exposure-herbicide-risk-rare-disorder]. The same year Syngenta Corporation, manufacturer of atrazine, was the defendant in a class action lawsuit concerning the levels of atrazine in human water supplies. Syngenta agreed to pay $105 million to reimburse more than a thousand water systems for “the cost of filtering atrazine from drinking water”, although the company denied all wrongdoing [http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/atrazine].</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA had conducted a number of reviews of findings regarding health risks posed by atrazine, but has still elected not to impose stricter regulations on its use. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IV. Entine’s ties to Syngenta, involvement with ACSH and defense of atrazine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, the American Council on Science and Health offer to ‘help’Syngenta. An internal email disclosed in documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta, shows that the ACSH received regular money and even asked for additional funding from “Syngenta friends”to commission a book that would, in large part, be a defense of atrazine:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Enter screen shot of this email here:http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/5/55/Syn_email_ACSH_Whelan_Say_Syngenta_Is_Financial_Lifeblood.pdf]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(and summarize)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As we made clear, ACSH is eager to commission a literature review on the general subject of pesticide exposure and human health. The paper would, of course, not be exclusively about atrazine, but the recent and ongoing “controversy”would be a primary focus.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACSH said it was committing $100,000 to the project –funding that was “separate and distinct from general operating supportSyngenta has been so generously providing over the years, which we request to continue at current or increased levels.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine was the author of the commissioned book.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011 the ACSH produced its “companion friendly”paper called, “Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health.”The book attacks the EPA and “harmful, unnecessary regulation”as well as the precautionary principle. It contains a chapter-long “case study”defending atrazine, just as members of the Syngenta PR team had been seeking. (http://acsh.org/2011/01/scared-to-death/)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An investigative report by PR Watch also links Entine to the book: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/02/11277/syngenta-pr%E2%80%99s-weed-killer-spin-machine-investigating-press-and-shaping-news-about</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mother Jones magazine further reported:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CMD’s investigation does not establish whether ACSH ever got Syngenta funding for that project. But CMD raises the possibility that Entine’s slim volume Scared to Death might be the very booklet that ACSH’s executive director envisioned in his letter to Syngenta. Entine flat-out denied this suggestion in an email exchange. “Syngenta is not a client and never has been. I have no clients in the agricultural or chemicals businesses,” he wrote.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael F. Jacobson, the executive director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said this about the ACSH in a letter to the editor at the Washington Times: “The group is a receptacle for payments from pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, food and other companies who appreciate the convenience of having their grantees and former employees serve on government science panels.”And the Center for Media and Democracy discovered that Syngenta’s public relations division operated in part to protect the company’s lucrative sales of atrazine (in a two-part report here and here). Entine’s name shows up in these reports.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s important to further note that, before ACSH stopped revealing donors in 1991, this online source reports that the “Monsanto Fund”was a corporate donor of $25,000 and above. Another donor was “The NutriSweet Company,”which was owned by G.D. Searle & Co., which in turn also funded Enzine-linked STATS. Pfizer, which held the NutriSweet brand, was also a donor to ACSH. This source is called the “Integrity in Science Project.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this Forbes piece further touting atrazine, Entine claims that Hayes’research was not “reproducible,” but this assessment [http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/abuses_of_science/atrazine-and-health.html] by the Union of Concern Scientists notes that the hand-picked industry scientists chosen to “replicate”Hayes’research did not accurately copy Hayes’methods:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes of the University of California at Berkeley, originally hired by the chemical company Syngenta to review studies to help certify the herbicide for re-registration with the EPA, was at first surprised when he found that African clawed frog tadpoles were “chemically castrated”when exposed to even trace amounts of atrazine –levels one-thirtieth the amount currently permitted in US drinking water. Hayes’findings were published in both Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes, who eventually resigned from the Syngenta review panel out of concern that his worrisome lab results were being buried, later charged that industry-supported scientists produced “a number of studies that were purposely flawed and misleading, and that changed the weight of the evidence.”The two remaining members of Syngenta’s atrazine review panel claimed that they had each tried but failed to replicate Hayes’data. In the scientific world such a claim is an insult or worse, implying that the original experiment may have been dishonest or flawed. In this case, the two scientists had both experienced difficulties raising the frogs—many of which died before metamorphosis because of being overcrowded and underfed. One scientist reported that he had contaminated the water with too much atrazine.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, the new studies did nothing to disprove Hayes’results, which have been “echoed by at least four other independent research teams in three countries.”When Hayes offered to help the Syngenta panel members and the EPA repeat his experiments to see for themselves whether atrazine posed a danger, the EPA declined. Nonetheless, the failed studies served to bolster the argument that the science linking atrazine to hormone disruption was uncertain.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, Entine’s claim that Hayes’experiments were “not reproducible”is not accurate because the research attempt at replicating Hayes’resultswas flawed from the start and was not conducted under the exact conditions Hayes first used to reach his conclusions.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further, and under a byline stating that he was the “Director, Genetic Literacy Project, Statistical Assessment Service, George Mason Univ.,”Entine authored a piece for The Huffington Post attacking atrazine critics and defending the chemical  :  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/frog-day-afternoon-choose_b_853776.html </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see below</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And as noted here, Entine has a history of defending chemical use, GMO foods and other industry initiatives on behalf of the chemical/biochemical/biotech industries on behalf of ACSH: http://acsh.org/?s=jon+entine&cat=0&x=31&y=22</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an investigative piece, Mother Jones revealed how heavily financed ACSH is by the very industries the “independent”organization defends:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising :</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the ACSH documents, from July 1, 2012, to December 20, 2012, 58 percent of donations to the council came from corporations and large private foundations. ACSH’s donors and the potential backers the group has been targeting comprise a who’s-who of energy, agriculture, cosmetics, food, soda, chemical, pharmaceutical, and tobacco corporations. ACSH donors in the second half of 2012 included Chevron ($18,500), Coca-Cola ($50,000), the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation ($15,000), Dr. Pepper/Snapple ($5,000), Bayer Cropscience ($30,000), Procter and Gamble ($6,000), agribusiness giant Syngenta ($22,500), 3M ($30,000), McDonald’s ($30,000), and tobacco conglomerate Altria ($25,000).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See the document listing these donations here: http://www.motherjones.com/documents/809483-acsh-financial-summary#document/p4/a128808</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More from the Mother Jones investigation:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Gilbert Ross, the group’s executive director, declined to answer specific questions about ACSH’s fundraising. He did not dispute the authenticity of the documents provided to Mother Jones. (Multiple corporations listed as donors on these documents confirmed they had supported ACSH.) Ross says the group doesn’t disclose its backers because “the sources of our support are irrelevant to our scientific investigations.”According to Ross, “Only science-based facts hold sway in our publications, even if the outcome is not pleasing to our contributors.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Mother Jones reported in 2005, Ross was previously convicted for defrauding New York State’s Medicaid program of roughly $8 million. His medical license was temporarily revoked and a jury sentenced him to 46 months in prison, of which he served 23 months. Ross currently has his license and is allowed to practice.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ACSH was founded in 1978 by Elizabeth Whelan, a Harvard-trained public-health scientist, as a counterweight to environmental groups and Ralph Nader’s consumer advocacy movement. At the organization’s founding, Whelan stated that the council “intends to remain free from financial ties with corporations with a financial interest in the topics we are investigating.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“ACSH calls the U.S. ban on DDT one of the 20 worst unfounded health scares of the 20th century. It ridicules the risks that chemical ‘endocrine disruptors’pose to human health and fertility. In addition to pesticides and chemical food additives, it has defended asbestos, Agent Orange and nuclear power. Whelan’s nutritional advice has also raised eyebrows among health experts, many of whom take exception to her claims that there is ‘no such thing as ‘junk food,”and that ‘There is insufficient evidence of a relationship between diet and any disease.’”– Source</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the start, ACSH has faced questions about its funding:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the early 1980s, ACSH’s donors included Dow, Monsanto, American Cyanamid, Mobil Foundation, Chevron, and Bethlehem Steel. In 1984, Georgia-Pacific, a leading formaldehyde maker, funded a friend-of-the-court brief filed by ACSH in an industry-backed lawsuit that overturned a ban on formaldehyde insulation.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACSH claims it does not seek donations from corporations or trade groups that are earmarked for specific research projects –in short, there is no quid pro quo. But at Mother Jones reported:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[I]n a March 1992 internal memo obtained by Consumer Reports, Whelan wrote that ACSH staffers would ask the Calorie Control Council, a trade group backed by diet food and drink companies, and McNeil Specialty Products, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that owned the US marketing rights to Splenda (an artificial sweetener), for contributions to underwrite the dissemination of a research paper touting artificial sweeteners. (Splenda was then seeking approval for sale in the United States.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine’s book (“Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health”) and chapter singing the praises of atrazine followed along with the Syngenta PR team’s wishes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a piece for Forbes.com, published February 9, 2012, Entine attacked Mother Jones magazine for its earlier exposé of Hayes; Entine’s piece in Forbes was critical and an attempt as well to discredit Hayes’research, but again it was based on faulty premises.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Chicago Now piece dissects Entine’s (and Forbes’) claims: http://www.chicagonow.com/high-gloss-and-sauce/2013/08/forbes-atrazine-jon-etine-082013/ The piece charges that an EPA-recognized study on the effects of atrazine on frogs which claimed not to be able to refute or confirm Hayes’studies is “mainly because of the limitations of the study designs and uncertainties in the data.”It was a problem with the EPA’s own processes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Forbes, Entine argues that atrazine is “so gentle”it can be applied right after a “crop’s first shoots”appear. But this is misdirection; the issue is that atrazine is harmful once it runs off into ground water, as Hayes’data show. Per Chicago Now: “The EPA is so aware of this and eager to dodge upsetting Syngenta, the makers of Atrazine (as well as avoid upsetting the public and showing their incompetence) that for the 2013 report on Atrazine, the EPA took the groundwater measurement in January, when toxin levels are typically low. (Atrazine is applied to farm crops in Spring.)”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the EPA itself notes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">–“Atrazine is a commonly reported groundwater contaminant.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">–“Drinking water from a contaminated groundwater or surface water source can be a significant medium of exposure for children.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">–“Exposure to children can occur primarily from ingestion of contaminated drinking water, and from dermal contact or ingestion following agricultural and lawn applications.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">–“Atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide in U.S. surface waters, particularly in the U.S. Midwest Corn Belt region.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The source for these EPA statements is here: http://www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/Atrazine_summary.pdf</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his Forbes piece, Enzine made these claims:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA’s assessment reflects the consensus by many scientific bodies around the world, including the World Health Organization and regulatory agencies in Australia, Canada the European Union’s safety review: atrazine has a short half-life, does not bio-accumulate in organisms, is not carcinogenic and study after study has shown it does not cause abnormalities and deformities at levels occurring in groundwater.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As noted by Chicago Now:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">– Atrazine has been banned by the EU.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">– The problem is not that it bio-accumulates in organisms, the problem is that exposure around the time of ovulation can cause adverse effects on embryos including chromosome aberrations (to quote the EPA, “Reproductive effects are the most sensitive effects observed in atrazine toxicity tests”also, “Change in hormone levels is the most sensitive health effect observed in an extensive battery of atrazine toxicity tests”)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/atrazine/atrazine_update.htm</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A National Institutes of Health study found that surface water atrazine and nitrate levels were related to increased incidences of abdominal wall defects. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17560200</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, an independent panel of scientists convened by the EPA recommended that the agency revise its assumption that atrazine “is unlikely to cause cancer.”Pointing to what it called “strong” epidemiological evidence linking atrazine to thyroid cancer, the panel states that the agency is currently acting with “inadequate information to assess carcinogenic potential.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine essentially is defending the indefensible.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As reported by Mother Jones here:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last week, the EPA released the minutes of the panel’s final meeting, which took place July 26-28. Its conclusions were stark. The panel criticized the EPA for lumping all forms of cancer together in its atrazine assessment, noting that “it would be useful and appropriate to make conclusions for individual cancers as opposed to making a blanket determination for cancer in general.” It then gave a list of cancers for which there is “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential”: ovarian cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, hairy-cell leukemia, and thyroid cancer. For other cancers—prostate cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancers, and childhood cancers—the panel found that “there is inadequate evidence” to determine whether or not atrazine is a cause.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At another point in the minutes, the panel pointed to “strong” epidemiological evidence linking atrazine to thyroid cancer and “suggestive” evidence linking it to ovarian cancer. “Many on the Panel believed that the epidemiology data failed to provide compelling evidence that atrazine is not carcinogenic,” the minutes stated.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents in the atrazine lawsuit revealed that Entine was one of the “third party outreach” people that Syngenta’s PR contractor, the White House Writers Group, was in communication with over a pesticides conference that the AEI hosted.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This report by PR Watch confirms the “third party outreach”allegation. Here is the relevant passage:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Unsealed e-mails reveal (PDF) that earlier that same week WHWG had reported to Syngenta that a third party the PR team was in communication with was Jon Entine of the American Enterprise Institute. Entine is a former producer with NBC and ABC News, whose books attacked the idea of socially responsible investing and the precautionary principle (Let Them Eat Precaution).” </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">V. Entine connections and funding organizations</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is founder of ESG MediaMetrics, “an alliance of strategic partners, to address an unfilled frustration voiced by corporations, business groups and civil society organizations: how</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">to manage the complex nexus of media, public policy and sustainable management. This is a PR group aimed at attacking anyone and any group or company that dares to challenge the “scientific orthodoxy”of ESG clients.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: http://www.esgmediametrics.com/founder.htm</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of EGR’s clients is Monsanto, according to this source.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine’s EGR site discusses the firm’s role:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We manage and create reputations. We bring to every challenge our vast experience as active journalists, public relations and media specialists, international scholars, and advisers for Fortune 500 corporations.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the company’s specific roles is “Communications and Public Relations Strategy,”but in an email to Mother Jones, Entine denied EGR was a PR firm:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I consult with organizations, from fair trade groups to the Environmental Defense Fund to corporations. I’m committed to science. I do no corporate PR work. You can misrepresent what I do and call it PR work, but that would be deceitful. People who do what I do are generally called “green consultants,” which I’m sure you’d never use as then I’d seem like a good guy and it’s much easier to put people and what they do in neat little boxes that prevent real thinking.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for listing Monsanto as a client on the ESG website, Entine wrote: “Nine years ago, I did a $2000 research project for v-Fluence, a social media company formed by former Monsanto executives. That’s the entirety of my Monsanto relationship.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has also worked with Jay Byrne’s PR firm v-Fluence, which was set up by former Monsanto executives.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Genetic Literacy Project. Entine is also executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Genetic_Literacy_Project], which is affiliated with George Mason University. One of the organization’s purposes is to promote GMOs. The GLP is also associated with STATS, or the Statistical Assessment Service and theCenter for Media and Public Affairs. GLP has another “sister”organization besides STATS, and that is EconoSTATS, which promotes privatization and discourages government regulation [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Statistical_Assessment_Service].</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> STATS has been funded in the past by Searle Freedom Trust, an organization founded by Big Pharma G.D. Searle & Co., makers of (among other things) aspartame (trade name “NutriSweet”) and is now part of Pfizer [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Searle_Freedom_Trust]. The Searle Freedom Trust funds a number of organizations and think tanks aimed at promoting corporate bottom lines, even over sound science.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to an email he sent Mother Jones magazine, Entine derives the bulk of his income from the GLP:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To hear Entine tell it, his defenses of atrazine and other pesticides are entirely pro bono and driven by his own initiative. He told me he gets “almost all” of his income from the Genetic Literacy Project, which, he added, is funded by what he called the Templeton and Searle foundations. The project is housed at the Statistical Assessment Service program at George Mason University, where Entine is a fellow. Though Entine would not specify which Searle trust funded the GLP, the Searle Freedom Trust’s 2010 tax form lists a $154,000 grant to STATS for a “Gene Policy and Science Literacy Project,” which sounds an awful lot like Entine’s.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is also listed as a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Enterprise_Institute] Entine uses his AEI platform as a “visiting fellow”to give himself credibility [http://www.aei.org/scholar/jon-entine/], but he says he receives no money from the organization. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">VI. Entine as journalist hit-man</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop. One of Entine’s crowning achievements was the “take-down”of a business known as The Body Shop (TBS) during his waning days as a news program producer at ABC, in 1994. Unable to get the program aired at ABC, Entine eventually convinced a small-time journal, the Minneapolis-based Business Ethics magazine, to publish what can only be described as a hit piece against TBS. This was a long-term “investigation”by Entine, who seemed locked into TBS for some reason. Immediately prior to the publication of his piece in Business Ethics, TBS responded to his reported allegations, which were reported by Britain’s Independent newspaper: [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/besieged-body-shop-comes-out-fighting-1386286.html]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Entine was accused by the company of using questionable methods, and making ‘misleading statements which are seriously defamatory of The Body Shop. It added that he ‘has been engaged in a single- minded campaign of vilification against The Body Shop’.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Entine is alleged to have described Anita Roddick, the company’s founder, as a ‘schizophrenic and a sociopath.’</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He is said to have denounced the company in approaches to investors, franchisees and potential supporters. Yesterday’s statement also accused him of pestering Anita Roddick at home, a claim Mr. Entine denies.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among allegations to surface in the past 10 days are claims that the company’s ‘Trade not Aid’policy of buying goods from indigenous peoples was not as vigorously pursued as The Body Shop had claimed, that Ms Roddick ‘stole’the company’s concept from a tiny American outfit, and that it had been responsible for pollution in New Jersey.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TBS’share prices fell on news of the report.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, according to environmental activist, writer, lecturer and organizer Lorna Salzman [Source:http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwritings/unwise.html] there was more to Entine’s TBS episode behind the scenes. She writes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine’s lengthy CV on the web emphasizes his television news experience prominently. His last full-time TV stint was at ABC television’s Primetime Live, but what Entine doesn’t report is that he was fired from ABC during his investigation of TBS for “mistakes in methodology.” In a letter from London’s The Sunday Times, the Deputy Editor explains how his paper was misled by Entine and how he misrepresented himself.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We now know what we did not know then: ABC discovered Entine had made a number of mistakes in his methodology so serious that they had in effect fired him some ten days before. Entine, probably unknown to ABC, was however still picking up his messages from a phone on his old desk in the ABC building. We now understand from ABC sources that Entine is regarded as out of control and has been running around saying some wild things”(Ivan Fallon, letter from Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times, October 8, 1993).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine then sold the idea to Vanity Fair, a publication with many cosmetic advertisers who compete with TBS (Sandra Earley, “The Woman Who Wants to Save the World”, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996). They rejected the story but paid Entine a $15,000 kill fee and $18,000 in expenses. (S.Earley, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996).It isn’t as if Entine is some Norman Mailer; his bio up until this article shows no other published stories but a recent book on black athletes got some media attention.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine tried to bring the story to other magazines without success, and finally Business Ethics, a small financially struggling publication, paid him $300 for the story and published it. Entine then turned around and made a $1000 donation to the magazine (S.Earley, Corporate Report Minnesota, June 1996). The publication of this story, to which Business Ethics would not allow a rebuttal, damaged TBS’image and stock value. Two years after the article appeared, Entine’s wife Ellen Turner was hired to be a marketing executive for The Limited, the parent company of TBS’largest US competitor, Bath and Body Works.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, to use a favorite Entine word, a bizarre thing occurred during a 1997 lecture at Trent University in Canada: Entine stated that “Of course, The Body Shop is better than 99% of companies”. But why doesn’t he WRITE that? When pressed at Trent about why he doesn’t pursue corporate criminals like Shell Oil over their Nigerian operations (an issue TBS has campaigned on since 1993), he had no answer.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Salzman adds this regarding Entine’s TBS “investigation”:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Entine’s TBS attack, he referred to a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of a small shampoo spill from TBS’New Jersey operations. But he failed to say that it was HE who called in the complaint (later whiting out his name, a fact he concealed), that FDA found the TBS facility to actually be well-run, and that FDA, upon completing all inspections, is bound by law to make recommendations regardless of how clean the facility may be. (FDA Report Summary of Findings, 1123).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Walter Ritte. Writing in The Daily Kos, “Karen from Maui”dissects another hit piece written by Entine, in which he attempts to disparage another environmental activist: [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/21/1240329/-Corporate-PR-The-War-on-Environmentalists#]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[[Technique #5: Blacken the personal reputations of environmental leaders. Searle funded STATS shill, Jon Entine, wrote an entire article filled with unsubstantiated accusations against GMO activist, Walter Ritte.  Walter Ritte is a long time Hawaiian activist who is respected for his role in reclaiming the island of Kaho'olawe from military bombing.  In the article Jon Entine mixes up Ritte's activist causes with his unsuccessful run for Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  This article is a textbook example of this PR technique in action.  It not only uses Destroying Personal Reputations but it is done through a corporate-sponsored Front Group.]]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searle funded STATS shill, Jon Entine, wrote an entire article filled with unsubstantiated accusations against GMO activist, Walter Ritte. Walter Ritte is a long time Hawaiian activist who is respected for his role in reclaiming the island of Kaho’olawe from military bombing. In the article Jon Entine mixes up Ritte’s activist causes with his unsuccessful run for Office of Hawaiian Affairs. This article is a textbook example of this PR technique in action. It not only uses Destroying Personal Reputations but it is done through a corporate-sponsored Front Group.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his capacity as Genetic Literacy Project, Entine levels non-specific and, at the time of his writing, unsubstantiated charges against Ritte:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activist leaders opposed to crop biotechnology, such as Walter Ritte, the Molokai-based political activist, have attempted to frame this battle as David vs. Goliath, threadbare grassroots campaigners fighting Big Ag. Although they claim their opposition to the innovative technology is home grown, a Genetic Literacy Project investigation, still in its infancy, suggests that the opposition is flush with cash, getting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from mainland anti-GMO organic organizations that have an ideological stake in blocking new farming technologies.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, as the headline introduction to one portion of his piece, Entine prominently, and rhetorically, insinuates:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Did Walter Ritte violate Hawaii’s campaign spending law?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a subsequent investigation by a local newspaper, The Molokai News, in reference to a piece Entine wrote at Forbes.com, in which he accused an anti-GMO group Ritte is associated with of illegally receiving more than 80 percent of its funds from non-Hawaii donors, a charge that records filed by Ritte with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission appear to substantiate. What Entine does not mention in his charges –either in his Forbes.com piece or on his GLP website, is that, according to The Molokai News, despite Hawaii law on the matter, it is moot:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gary Kam, legal counsel for HCSC, would not comment on whether there is an active investigation being conducted on Ritte. This will not be public information, he said, unless it is referred to the Commission for action. He did say that there has been no past enforcement action taken against Ritte.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kam also mentioned that the violation may be moot and unenforceable anyway. Apparently, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided, prior to 2012, that it was unconstitutional to limit contributions from out of state sources, said Kam. This was based on a case in which a University of Hawaii student contribution was considered valid even though the student had a permanent address on the mainland.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A report from the organization Campaign Freedom further found in April 2014 that, because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling inMcCutcheon v FEC, which invalidated the federal aggregate limit on contributions by individuals to candidate campaigns and political committees as unconstitutional under the First Amendment, “states with aggregate limits and proportional bans should strongly consider repealing these speech-stifling regulations in order to comply with the precedent set in the McCutcheon decision and avoid a likely successful legal challenge.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A case that challenged a number of Hawaii’s campaign spending laws was being appealed by the state of Hawaii, but the state dropped its appeal in June 2011.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gilles-Eric Saralini. Entine has also set his sights on French Prof. Gilles-Eric Saralini, whose University of Caen study found that GM maize and Roundup at very low doses caused organ damage, tumors and premature death in rats over the long term.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, again in Forbes, criticized Saralini in a May 2013 piece for withdrawing from a planned debate regarding biotechnology (Saralini is a critic of Monsanto, Roundup and GMOs, largely as a result of his findings) at the libertarian-leaning CATO Institute. Entine, in his critical piece, claimed that he wanted to use the debate forum to “present both sides of the issue”regarding genetically modified foods and GM biotechnology in general, but his history suggestions otherwise, as he is a regular, vociferous defender of GMO foods and the biotechnology that created them.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GM Watch reported that these articles are dishonest in the extreme. “For example, Entine described Seralini’s findings as “anomalous” even though Seralini’s was the only long-term toxicity study ever carried out on this particular GM maize and the herbicide it is grown with. It’s hard not to produce “anomalous” findings if there is only one experiment.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has also worked to undermine Saralini on Wikipedia, using the handle “runjonrun”(Incidentally, Entine’s email address isrunjonrun@earthlink.net). GM Watch was alerted by Wikipedia users to the fact that Entine was one of the early editors on a one-sided and originally potentially libellous Wikipedia article called “The Seralini affair”, which denigrated Seralini’s study and Seralini himself.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, under the Wiki user name “runjonrun”, was active in vandalizing the article by rapidly deleting balancing information, for example, about the scientific support for Seralini’s study and the conflicts of interest among critics of the study.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a previous Wiki spat, “runjonrun” had revealed his true identity as Jon Entine after upsetting other Wiki users by allegedly contravening Wiki conflict of interest guidelines and vandalising articles without justification. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">VII. Entine’s legal issues</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has been involved in a seven-year divorce battle with his wife. And, according to court documents, there has been an order of protection filed against him:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Each party supplemented its position with a subsequent affidavit. And Humbert introduced the affidavit of Entine’s ex-wife, along with copies of her application for protective orders against Entine made in the course of their recent divorce.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Enter screen shot of page two of Entine's court case against Bruce Humbert and his estranged wife, Ellen Turner] </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">VIII. Entine refuted</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">– One of Entine’s books, “Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It,”has been called the “go-to”piece of work for mainstream sports writers when the subject turns to race in sports. But in a scholarly work countering Entine’s claims, Ian B. Kerr from Western Michigan University concluded “that science and genetic experimentation have proven that natural biological variation amongst and between peoples cannot be used to validate claims of innate racial superiority in athletic competition.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kerr further notes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Entine does cite supposed “genetic”data on the differences between Blacks and Whites, he is in fact citing biological data. These include studies on African fast twitch muscle fibers and development of motor skills. Entine includes these studies to demonstrate irrevocable proof of embedded genetic differences between populations but refuses to accept the fact that any differences may be due to environmental factors or training. Entine then is unfairly giving an undue strong preference to genetic factors while disregarding social and environmental factors (Harpalani, 2004).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moreover, external differences like height or weight, which play an instrumental role in helping define an individual’s athletic prowess, have not been proven to be exclusively rooted in biology or genetics. Genetic differences among people cannot solely account for why certain people are more athletic than others, as scientists cannot find any specific genetic markers that define the characteristics of athleticism (speed, height, strength) in one group or “race”more than any other.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet why has the genetic theory of Black athletic dominance been so difficult to debunk? Part of the problem are the roles of professional athletes and the media in reinforcing negative stereotypes regarding race and athletic ability.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He makes this conclusion, among others:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine and other quasi-genetic determinists fall into a mode of thinking wherein physical differences between individuals are read as proof that separate races of people exist. By focusing on physical differences and insignificant genetic variations rather than providing insight into the biodiversity among humans, Entine muddies the waters of racism and racial superiority.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writing in American Scientist, University of Georgia’s Paul Achter and Celeste Condit also refute Entine’s conclusions:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bulk of the book blends historical anecdotes about the intersection of race, science and sports with genetic research underwritten by a supposed objectivity of observation. Entine refutes deterministic environmental explanations for athletic superiority. Too often, he argues, such accounts completely ignore the contribution of genes in our ability to dunk a basketball, run long distances or elude a defensive back. But Entine goes too far in the opposite direction. Although he occasionally gives lip service to the idea that nature and nurture both contribute to athletic ability, Entine ultimately dismisses substantive consideration of environmental factors as ideological or self-censoring. He leaves the impression that there are clear racial differences in athletic abilities and that all such differences are traceable to genes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regrettably, Entine’s version of genetics constitutes a caricature of that science. His account of the debate over the “out-of-Africa” hypothesis is lopsided and reflects the hastiness and sloppiness that also bedevils the proofreading, organization and argumentative structuring throughout the book. Ultimately, Entine takes what may be a kernel of truth—that there are very small differences in frequencies of particular physical structures in some geographically localized populations—and distorts it into the claim that “blacks” are universally better athletes because of their genes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The flaws in this larger claim are illustrated by Entine’s use of Tiger Woods as an example of the physical superiority of black athletes. Entine admits Tiger Woods’s multiracial origins but then lumps him back into a mythical racial group called “blacks.” Throughout,Entine plays fast and loose with categories in this fashion. He proves that a local group of Kenyans dominate middle-distance running, then uses this to make generalized statements that “blacks” are better “athletes.” Sports where “blacks” do not dominate (swimming, cricket, gymnastics, polo) are quickly dismissed on grounds of nurture or environment (for instance, blacks don’t have access to polo ponies), but in either case, the difference somehow is treated as support of his claim that “blacks are innately superior athletes.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If taken seriously, Entine’s claims could only support the silliest of propositions. Entine maintains that the “disparity between blacks and whites in sports is at least as pronounced” as the disparity between women and men. Do we need, therefore, a separate “white men’s league” for basketball and tennis? Should Title IX agents worry about the inadequacy of opportunities for young white boys to play basketball or go bowling? Any other suggestions? As long as white-skinned boys, even those who are relatively untalented, continue to have greater opportunities for athletic self-development than boys of all other cultural and geographic heritages and than all girls, Entine’s argument will remain one undeserving of much concern</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">– Arthur E. Berman, a petroleum geologist and consultant to the energy sector; editorial board member of The Oil Drum; Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin; Director of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil, wrote a letter to George Mason University dated July 4, 2011, that he also posted online on his blog, in which he sought to refute claims and assertions made by Entine in his Real Clear Politics column published a few days earlier, on July 1, “Natural Gas “Bubble” Report: Market Tinkering or Shoddy Reporting?”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman writes:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His post contains errors, exaggerations and untrue statements that cannot be substantiated, and thereby jeopardize George Mason University’s legal position and reputation as an honest broker of information.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I demand that Mr. Entine post public corrections to the many incorrect and unsubstantiated claims that he makes in this post. I further request that he write to me directly acknowledging that his post contained the many incorrect and undocumented claims that I specify below. He never contacted me or my clients to verify these claims and, apparently, did no research to document his many specious allegations.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman then goes on to list the errors, exaggerations and statements he says are untrue. Those are here :  http://petroleumtruthreport.blogspot.com/2011/07/letter-to-george-mason-university-re.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's not a good time to be a frog. The dodo was just one species of bird when it went the way of T-Rex. But according to some conservation scientists, we may be in an early stage of the extinction of an entire class of animals -- amphibians, including frogs, toads and salamanders.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More to the point, say anti-pesticide campaigners mixing animal metaphors, amphibians are canaries in the mine. Big Agriculture, they say, is polluting the world with chemicals, slaying our helpless aqua buddies. Humans, you're next.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you haven't yet heard this narrative, be prepared. Friday is the 3rd annual "Save the Frog Day," billed as a worldwide event. It's a good cause, in theory. One-third of amphibian species are threatened. Some 200 species have completely disappeared since 1980. But what's causing this phenomenon? How do we tease science from ideological politics to settle on reasonable public policy responses?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this year, what appeared to be an independent website, FrogTV: The Story of a Frog, His Mutation and Your Health, premiered on the Internet, promoting the 'blame pesticides' line. Along with Save the Frogs, it features a rogue's gallery of alleged poisons: atrazine, Roundup, chlorothalonil. The takeaway: "Over half of the DNA found in frogs is also found in humans, so if these pesticides kill frogs, imagine what they do to us!"</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The answer, almost certainly, is "nothing serious". The common use of pesticides does not harm frogs, let alone people. Basic science: Humans and nematodes (worms) are 70 percent genetically similar, but shared DNA does not equate to functional similarity. Heck, we share one third of our genes with daffodils. Amphibians are not proxies for humans. Frogs are permeable beings. They don't swallow water like we do. They absorb most of the moisture and some of their oxygen through their skin.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why are frogs dying? Scientists agree the overwhelming cause is chytrid fungus, which is thought to have emerged from Africa. It coats a frog's porous skin, which cuts off its water supply and limits its oxygen. Climate change and habitat loss almost certainly make up most of the rest of the explanation. What about chemicals? Pesticides are concentrated in agricultural areas, which by and large are nowhere near sizable amphibian habitats. The frog population falloff is occurring at similar levels in all regions of the world, including in areas where extensive pesticide use is minimal or even nonexistent.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pesticides-are-dangerous theory originated with and substantially rests on thecredibility of the research of controversial University of California endocrinologist Tyrone Hayes. He's published numerous studies purporting to show that clawed frogs exposed to low doses of atrazine produce males with ambiguous genitalia and soprano-like croaks--hermaphrodites.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes labels atrazine an "endocrine disruptor"--a novel, widely-circulated notion that exposure to certain chemicals can radically alter sexual development. The key issue: At what level of exposure might estrogen modifiers, which range from chemicals to nuts, tofu and dozens of other foods known as phytoestrogens, effect development? Could they be contributing to the decline in the frog population and by proxy to human health problems?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These are serious science questions. The endocrine disruption notion targeting pesticides andplastic additives is gradually losing favor among scientists. As for Hayes's work, theEnvironmental Protection Agency and independent scientists from around the world have determinedly tried to replicate Hayes's findings to no avail. Studies have consistently shown that "a risk to human health [from atrazine is] essentially nonexistent."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most recently, in March 2010, Hayes authored a paper arguing that atrazine demasculinized frogs throughout all life stages. If pesticides are misused or overused, humans could be endangered and restrictions would be warranted.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the science community is unconvinced by Hayes' singular contention that exposure to miniscule doses of pesticides is dangerous--the low dose endocrine disruptor theory.Australia's Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts carefully reviewed the study, finding the lab work flawed, and recommending no change to its conclusion that atrazine is safe as used.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biologist Werner Kloas of Berlin's Humboldt University, who believes chemicals should be banned for precautionary reasons if the evidence is merely ambiguous, has found no impact on frogs at concentrations comparable to those investigated by Hayes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most recently, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies professor David Skelly, who had long promoted Hayes' work, was flabbergasted to discover that deformities among frogs in field studies were lowest in farmlands, where pesticides are common, as compared to cities and suburbs. "[W]e found that in those kinds of landscapes where corn is being grown, the great majority of the ponds we sampled didn't have any deformities at all," he wrote. "To my knowledge (and I have participated in two EPA panels that reviewed available results) nobody else has been able to get this ultra low concentration effect."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So what's behind this broadside? Consider Frog TV, the anti-chemical attack forum thatpromotes Hayes' controversial findings as the rationale for its campaign. It appeared mysteriously in January to much viral fanfare. A little digging outed the source: It's a promotional campaign cooked up by Organic Valley, a key member of the Organic Trade Association, whose marketing philosophy is to exploit the crisis in the frog population and demonize conventional agriculture.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental challenges are complex. Data is more important than ideology. If we don't rely on science to guide us, we might make the day for Whole Foods Market devotees, but it would have a devastating effect on the nutritionally poor and the world food supply. And by diverting the focus on the real problem, ameliorating the fungus, frogs will be no better off.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is director of the Genetic Literacy Project and Senior Fellow at STATS and theCenter for Health and Risk Communications at George Mason University.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">115,103 views</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bee Deaths Reversal: As Evidence Points Away From Neonics As Driver, Pressure Builds To Rethink Ban</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the Environmental Protection Agency moves to restrict neonicotinoid pesticides because of fears that they are causing bee deaths, it will happen in spite of the mounting evidence rather than because of it.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[UPDATE NOTE: This story was revised on 8 February to reflect release of new data on neonics and bee health presented at a New Orleans entomology conference.]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last December, the European Commission banned the use of neonicotinoids, often called neonics, for two years. The moratorium, support for which was channeled by the precautionary politics that now dominate science-based regulation in Europe, took effect just as numerous new studies–including one released this past week–shed increasing doubt on the belief that neonics play a central role in bee health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now the focus is on Canada. Farmers in the United States are worried about a domino effect if regulatory officials there buckle under pressure from anti-pesticide campaigners to ‘do something,’ which could result in copycat moratoriums.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “crisis” prompting this hand-wringing is an age-old problem in the bee world: unpredictable bee deaths. They’ve occurred periodically for more than a century, but reemerged with a vengeance in 2004 in the California almond fields, where casualty rates briefly approached 60 percent. Beekeepers called it the ‘vampire mite scare’ because of its likely link to varroa mites—parasites that feed on the bodily fluid of bees—and on miticides used to combat them.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2006, there were fresh reports of unexplained bee deaths in what was known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, in which all the worker bees from a colony abruptly disappeared without a trace—no dead bodies to be found. The cause of the mysterious surge is still unclear. But as the crisis receded, attention turned to a less dramatic but more long-term challenge to bee health—sometimes also referred to as CCD, although experts believe it is a different phenomenon with different causes: the increasing number of bees that fail to survive through the winter.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On average, about 10 to 15 percent of bees die each winter. In recent years, that percentage has spiked to as high as 35 percent. Highly charged words like “beepocalypse” or “beemageddon” began turning up everywhere on the Internet. As measured a reporter as Dan Charles at NPR characterized the bee deaths as “a crisis point for crops.” But what was causing the die-offs?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like the fictional parents in the edgy comedy show South Park who blame Canada for all of their woes, activists often coalesce around an issue and then come up with a simple but sometimes simplistic narrative to frame it. Strident opponents of modern agricultural technology initially blamed GMOs for bee deaths, and some still make that claim, although there is zero evidence to back it up. When that didn’t get traction, the focus switched to neonics.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even their sharpest critics acknowledge that the class of pesticides is extremely effective. Often applied only to the soil or used as a seed treatment, they were introduced in the late 1990s without incident as a less toxic replacement for the mass spraying of organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides, which are both known to kill bees and wildlife. Organophosphates in particular have been linked to health problems in workers. Despite their comparatively benign toxicological profile, however, neonics have emerged as Public Enemy Number 1 in the eyes of anti-pesticide campaigners.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s time to ban dangerous neonicotinoid pesticides,” headlined Mother Earth News, after Europe imposed its two year moratorium.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[A] growing body of evidence has pointed to a group of insecticides called neonicotinoids, widely used on corn, soy, and other US crops, as a possible cause [of bee deaths],” wrote Tom Philpott in Mother Jones.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“EPA should cancel all uses of neonics where they can lead to harm for bees and other beneficial insects,” wrote Jennifer Sass of the Natural Resources Defense Council.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Are we facing a global bee crisis?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The intense rhetoric obscures two separate but intertwined questions. Are we facing a bee pollination crisis? And, what’s the cause of the recent spate of bee deaths? The answers should drive appropriate regulatory and scientific responses.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Close to one third of our food supply—blueberries and papaya, almonds and apples, and other fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts—is linked to pollination, and the honeybee is nature’s most celebrated pollinator. Though not all these foods are 100 percent dependent on honeybees and would not by any means disappear without them, without the bee our diet would be less nutritious and less tasty.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, while bees face challenges, the numbers simply don’t support the “beepocalypse” narrative nor identify neonics as the driver of die-offs. As Scientific American’s Francie Diep noted in a recent article sub-headlined “why colony collapse disorder is not that big a deal anymore,” North American honeybee colony numbers have been stable for years at about 2.5 million even as neonics usage became more widespread.honeybees</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The US picture echoes global trends. According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, the number of beehives worldwide, after a plunge in the early 1990s, well before the introduction of neonics, has been rising steadily.Global beehives</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While honeybee-keepers have been able to replace most lost hives, there are concerns that future bees may not be able to sustain a high replacement rate. But this is a complicated issue. Bees, whose normal life span is measured in weeks, generally regenerate quickly; a whole hive can come up to full strength again in six weeks. Some beekeepers with no colony problems have been known to replace 100 percent of their bees in early spring.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, if beehives are not given proper time to rejuvenate, major problems can occur. Every February, two out of every three hives in the US are shipped to California for the almond bloom, which puts enormous unnatural stress on colonies. There is often no time for hives to emerge from normal winter declines and rebuild to full strength.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s the role of neonics in bee health?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A split has developed in the research community as to the potential link of neonics to bee deaths. Just this past week, entomologists at a New Orleans conference released details from a soon-to-be published field study that concluded that neonics may not be as harmful to bees as portrayed in the media because they are not being expressed in plant pollen or the plant’s reproductive parts at levels that are high enough to hurt the bees.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">seems legit site, but comments solidly against: eg Note that the only plants tested are corn, soy and cotton – very low on flower and pollen abundance. Bees find very little to forage anyways on these crops. The experiment was designed to yield the “no significant trace result. Studies on more abundant flower and pollen producing plants are likely to produce different results.  note also no author on main post</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">link to [http://www.usda.gov/documents/ReportHoneyBeeHealth.pdf USDA (sort of) 2012 report].  Note CropLife.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When we look at the literature and the Internet, what it says is that neonicotinoids applied as seed treatments are then taken up into the plant and expressed in the pollen and in the nectar,” said primary researcher Gus Lorenz, an extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas. “Well, that’s not so much what we found.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The researchers evaluated treated corn, soybeans and cotton. When they tested soybean flowers and cotton nectar, they found no traces of neonics at all. They did find microscopic traces of neonics in corn at what the EPA and toxicologists say are insignificant impact levels, with the highest having a mean of 2.3 parts per billion. To put that into perspective, one part per billion equals one second in 32 years. “It’s not being expressed in the reproductive parts of the plants,” concluded Dr. Lorenz.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet those direct field observations conflict with some laboratory-based studies in leading journals and others in pay-to-play type publications in which bees treated in the lab with neonics are then released into the environment. In a French based studypublished in Science, a small percentage of free-ranging honeybees whose brains were doused with the neonic thiamethoxam got confused, failing to return to the hive. Another Science study, focusing on bumblebees, found those exposed to high doses of the neonic imidacloprid had reduced colony growth rates and produced significantly fewer queens to found new colonies. Just last month, research in the low-impact journal Excotoxicology concluded that bumblebees exposed to imidacloprid were somewhat worse at gathering pollen than untreated bees although the nectar foraging efficiency of treated bees was not significantly different than the controls. Last year, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) released three studies, none conclusive, raising questions about the potential role of neonics in bee health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While concerning, the way some of the research was conducted raises caution about how much weight to place on their findings independent of real world confirmation. For example, the French thiamethoxam study came under sharp criticism because bees do not encounter the chemical by having their brains directly exposed. Any pesticide, if misapplied to crops, could collaterally impact bee function; that’s one key reason why farmers, at the urging of scientists, phased out organophosphates. But that doesn’t answer the question driving the current regulation frenzy: Are neonicotinoids as they are used in the real world the driving force behind bee deaths?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The US Agriculture Department and the EPA convened a working group two years ago to address that very question. Their report, issued last May, put activists back on their heels. It concluded that neonics, while a contributor, were way down the list of possible causes. They cited as the primary drivers colony management, viruses, bacteria, poor nutrition, genetics and habitat loss. By far the biggest culprit—the report called it “the single most detrimental pest of honeybees”—was identified as the parasitic mite varroa destructor—the likely cause of the 2004 die-off.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The federal report echoed findings published last year by the United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), which evaluated the cause of bee deaths as the European Union was debating whether to institute a ban. DEFRA noted that the bees used in many of these lab experiments were exposed to doses hundreds of times higher than what they encounter in the wild, and they were often administered by injections.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Laboratory-based studies demonstrating sub-lethal effects on bees from neonics did not replicate realistic conditions, but extreme scenarios,” the study concluded. “[E]ffects on bees do not occur under normal circumstances. Consequently… the risk to bee populations from neonicotinoids, as they are currently used, is low.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DEFRA’s caution about basing regulations on preliminary data was underscored last fall with the release of the most comprehensive peer reviewed field study on thiamethoxam, published in Apidologie. It concluded: “[A]t realistic (mean) exposure rates…no adverse impacts on brood production [of bumblebees] were found.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conflicting data were not enough to slow the regulatory express in Europe. In voting for a moratorium, European Commission politicians ignored DEFRA’s analysis. It later emerged that EFSA appeared to have deliberately suppressed evidence of the relative safety of neonics after insider political lobbying by French officials. After the vote, Director-General of EFSA, Catherine Geslain-Lanéele resigned to take up a job at the French Ministry of Agriculture, which had lobbied for a ban over the objections of Britain, Germany and other countries.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet another study released just last month raises further doubts about the neonic-bee death connection. A joint report issued by scientists affiliated with USDA and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences concluded that honeybee deaths (and likely bumblebee deaths as well) stem from the tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV), not from pesticides. It’s long been known that foraging bees pick up the virus; what’s new is that researchers discovered that the virus has evolved the ability to infect bees, and it now attacks their nervous systems. TRSV then spreads to other bees—a process known as “host shifting”—by the mites that feed on them.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an unlikely embrace of nuance, Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott now grudgingly acknowledges that varroa mites could be the driver of bee deaths. “Disturbingly,” writes Philpott “in his review of the study, [the scientists] found that the virus also replicates in varroa mites, an established bee pest, and that the infected mites could help spread the virus.” This adds a new layer to the emerging consensus in the scientific community that the mites, in combination with other factors, are the central threat to bee health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Canadian officials seem resistant to the emerging research trends. After the European Commission voted to ban neonics, anti-GMO, green and farm groups turned their focus on Canada, pressuring Ottawa to follow suit. The responsible agency, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), aware that the evidence fingering neonics was spotty, vacillated, issuing an ambiguous assessment of reported bee deaths in Ontario and Quebec and a vague “notice of intent” order to regulate neonics, without providing details.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s not as if PMRA does not have comprehensive research on neonics to rely upon. If bee health problems were critical in Canada, they would certainly have surfaced in the country’s 19 million acres of canola farms, which are mostly in the west. Beekeepers who forage their bees in the canola fields, where neonics are used far more heavily than on Ontario and Quebec farms, say their hives are generally thriving. Apart from a single, ambiguous case, there have been no reports of bee kills attributable to neonics in all of western Canada in recent years.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PMRA could also have drawn upon previous studies, including three major field investigations on neonicotinoid pesticides in 2002, 2005 and 2012 by environmental biologist Cynthia Scott-Dupree of the University of Guelph and entomologist Chris Cutler of Dalhousie University. The researchers noted residues of neonics in ailing bee hives, but at levels hundreds of times lower than scientists believe would have any impact on bees. Their conclusion echoed recent findings by DEFRA, USDA and EPA: many factors contribute to bee deaths, but neonics in particular had “no effects” on their poor performance.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott-Dupree and Cutler’s field research is widely recognized as among the most robust in the world in evaluating real world impacts of these pesticides. But under pressure from the Sierra Club allied with organic-focused beekeepers, the Ontario provincial government ensured that the two experts with the most detailed research on the issue would not be invited to participate. Although excluded from the Ontario study group, Cutler, Scott-Dupree, and David Drexler, an agrology consultant, published an analysisof all bee-kill incidents reported in Canada from 2007-2012. Their key finding: “[V]ery few of the serious bee kills involve neonicotinoid pesticides. Five times as many ‘major’ and ‘moderate’ pesticide-related bee kills were sourced to other non-neonic chemicals.“</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let’s be clear: the Ontario group was mostly for show. The main ‘output’ for this initiative—apart from the politicians’ imperative of appearing to ‘do something’—has always been to ‘light a fire’ under PMRA to capitulate to the complaints of the Sierra Club and Ontario beekeepers.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What would happen if PMRA moved to heavily restrict neonics? The failure of the federal agency to do elementary cost-benefit analysis and its apparent inclination to downplay field evidence could set the wheels of unintended consequences spinning into motion.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Europe, where the neonics moratorium just took effect, farmers have had no choice but to return to older and less effective pesticides: organophosphates and pyrethroids. The dangers of organophosphates, which are highly toxic to bees, are widely known. Now, just last month, a study of pyrethroids by the Royal Holloway University of London published in the Journal of Applied Ecology—the first to examine the impact of the pesticide across the entire lifecycle of bumblebees—found that its use impairs brood reproduction and stunts growth, which is disastrous for bee health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Our work provides a significant step forward in understanding the detrimental impact of pesticides other than neonicotinoids on wild bees,” said co-author Nigel Raine. The scientists expressed particular concern that patchwork bans and moratoriums could result in stressing bee colonies even more.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In reviewing the emerging evidence on challenges to bee health, University of Illinois entomologist May Berenbaum, chairwoman of a major National Academy of Sciences study on the loss of pollinators, said recently that she was “extremely dubious” that banning neonics would have any positive effect. The key challenges to bee health going forward, entomologists say, are colony management issues, the blood-sucking varroa mite, the miticides beekeepers themselves use to control varroa infestations and various viruses, like TRSV.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Viewed from afar, it appears PMRA is tottering on a dangerous political and scientific tightrope. In panic mode, the default of agencies under the microscope is often, “When in doubt, regulate.” If Canadian officials should capitulate to the ban pressure, the decision would not be based on science—the evidence is moving gradually but decisively away from neonics as a culprit for bee deaths. The question for Canada and ultimately for US regulators: Will they examine the evidence? Or will politics drive the science?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Genetic Literacy Project reports, in an endorsement of the co-existence of genetically modified and organic farming, the Western Australian Supreme Court today rejected claims by a farmer who contended that his organic certified farm was “contaminated” by a neighboring farmer growing GM canola.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I am not satisfied that in 2010 Mr. Baxter breached any (lesser) duty of reasonable care,” Justice Kenneth Martin wrote in his judgment.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organic farmer Steve Marsh had sued his neighbor and former friend, Michael Baxter, claiming that GM canola from Baxter’s land had drifted onto his organic oats, rye and sheep farm in Kojonup, Western Australia. The National Association of Sustainable Agriculture Australia (NASAA) temporarily suspended Marsh’s organic certification on about 70 percent of his property in late 2010. Marsh sought financial compensation of $85,000 (AU) from Baxter, as well as a permanent court injunction banning Baxter from planting GM crops.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike the United States, the European Union and Japan, which allow trace amounts of GMO crops in organic foods in acknowledgement of cross pollination by wind or pollen transfer, Australia maintains a zero threshold.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-GMO groups have gotten a lot of traction by branding cross pollination as “contamination.”  Cross pollination occurs naturally but is considered unacceptable to organic purists, who want organic crops to be completely free of pollen from GM crops and want those demands incorporated into legislation.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently, voters in two southern Oregon counties approved measuresto ban the cultivation of GM crops based on “contamination” concerns. The Marsh versus Baxter case has attracted global attention as it sheds light on how “contamination” claims by organic farmers might be received in other courts.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 150-page judgment summary, Justice Martin wrote there had been no unreasonable interference with Marsh’s crops. He found that the decision to withdraw organic certification was made by the Australian organic certifying bodies NASAA/NCO and it was that decision and not natural cross pollination that cost Marsh about $85,000 (AU) in reduced income.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Baxter was not to be held responsible as a broadacre farmer merely for growing a lawful GM crop and choosing to adopt a harvest methodology (swathing), which was entirely orthodox in its implementation,” he wrote. “Nor could Mr. Baxter be held responsible, in law, for the reactions to the incursion of the Marshes’ organic certification body, NCO, which in the circumstances presented to be an unjustifiable reaction to what occurred.” Martin added there was “a very strong body of evidence in this trial to suggest that there was no legitimate contractual basis for NCO to decertify” Marsh’s farm.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the 11-day hearing in February, scientists also testified that Roundup Ready canola swathes were harmless to animals, people and land even if consumed.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organic tolerance standards challenged</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The court case has highlighted contradictions in current Australian farming and organic certifying regulations. Professor Rick Roush from Melbourne University’s School of Land and Environment said he believes the case is unique to Australia, because the Australian organics industry has a zero tolerance to the presence of any GM material in certified organic products.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In other countries, there is a tolerance for very small levels of legally approved seeds, or pollen, or whatever, to be found in a crop, even in organics,” he said. “In the United States, for example, there are broad-scale examples of GM and organic crops being grown in close proximity. In fact, in some farming operations in the United States the same farmer will be using both GM and organic production.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Australian court ruling has no direct impact upon U.S. law. While similar concerns and fears of “GMO contamination” are also widespread among organic farmers in the US, there has been no case in which an organic farmer has lost organic certification because of cross pollination. However, conventional growers have had grain rejected for shipment because of the presence of GMO seeds.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The US Department of Agriculture says there is no threshold for the amount of acceptable cross pollination, and handles the concern as such:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike many pesticides, there aren’t specific tolerance levels in the USDA organic regulations for GMOs. As such, National Organic Program policy states that trace amounts of GMOs don’t automatically mean the farm is in violation of the USDA organic regulations. In these cases, the certifying agent will investigate how the inadvertent presence occurred and recommend how it can be better prevented in the future.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a major review in 2011-12, the USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21) endorsed coexistence between farmers growing conventional, organic and genetically modified crops and rejected calls by organic activists for “zero tolerance”:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many commenters suggested that we establish a “threshold” for the unintended or adventitious presence of products of excluded methods in organic products. Some commenters argued that a threshold is necessary because, without the mandatory labeling of biotechnology-derived products, organic operations and certifying agents could not be assured that products of excluded methods were not being used. Others argued that, without an established threshold, the regulations would constitute a “zero tolerance” for products of excluded methods, which would be impossible to achieve.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We do not believe there is sufficient consensus upon which to establish such a standard at this time. Much of the basic, baseline information about the prevalence of genetically engineered products in the conventional agricultural marketplace that would be necessary to set such a threshold-e.g., the effects of pollen drift where it may be a factor, the extent of mixing at various points throughout the marketing chain, the adventitious presence of genetically engineered seed in nonengineered seed lots-is still largely unknown. Our understanding of how the use of biotechnology in conventional agricultural production might affect organic crop production is even less well developed.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, as was pointed out in some comments, the testing methodology for the presence of products of excluded methods has not yet been fully validated. Testing methods for some biotechnology traits in some commodities are becoming commercially available. Without recognized methods of testing for and quantifying of all traits in a wide range of food products, however, it would be very difficult to establish a reliable numerical tolerance.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s similar to the policy adopted by the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movement (IFOAM):</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organic certification shall not imply it is a ‘GE-free’ certification. Rather it shall be presented as guaranteeing ‘production without GE/GMOs’.  As there is no guarantee that organic products are 100% free … Organic producers and associations shall actively inform the consumers of this fact to insure fair marketing claims and to avoid future debates about consumer deception.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ben Copeman, general manager with Australian organic certifying organization NASAA, said his organization is working with farmer groups to figure out how different types of farming, including GM and organic farming, can co-exist in harmony going forward. He added that he is not opposed to a review of organic standards, including the zero tolerance on GM organisms, provided it takes into consideration what organic consumers want.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-GM campaigners reacted in outrage, claiming that the verdict sets a dangerous precedent because it leaves the use of GM crops largely unrestricted. Scott Kinnear, director of the Safe Food Foundation which funded Marsh’s campaign, said he is very disappointed and gravely concerned for the farmer, his family and farm, and for the future of organic and non-GM food in Australia remaining GM-free. Marsh said that he is considering an appeal.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Snooke, director of Pastoral and Graziers Association in Western Australia, welcomed the court’s decision, as there were more than 1,000 GM farmers in the region. He added that Marsh should have pursued the organic certification process, and not his neighbor.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What it means is the grains industry has certainty, that the protocols and the regulations we operate under cater for every type of farming in Australia,” he said. “The court has vindicated all farmers who choose to grow GM canola.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTE: XiaoZhi Lim, agricultural editor of the Genetic Literacy Project, co-authored this report</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is a senior fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication and STATS (Statistical Assessment Service) at George Mason University.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently, voters in two southern Oregon counties approved measuresto ban the cultivation of GM crops based on “contamination” concerns. The Marsh versus Baxter case has attracted global attention as it sheds light on how “contamination” claims by organic farmers might be received in other courts.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 150-page judgment summary, Justice Martin wrote there had been no unreasonable interference with Marsh’s crops. He found that the decision to withdraw organic certification was made by the Australian organic certifying bodies NASAA/NCO and it was that decision and not natural cross pollination that cost Marsh about $85,000 (AU) in reduced income.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Baxter was not to be held responsible as a broadacre farmer merely for growing a lawful GM crop and choosing to adopt a harvest methodology (swathing), which was entirely orthodox in its implementation,” he wrote. “Nor could Mr. Baxter be held responsible, in law, for the reactions to the incursion of the Marshes’ organic certification body, NCO, which in the circumstances presented to be an unjustifiable reaction to what occurred.” Martin added there was “a very strong body of evidence in this trial to suggest that there was no legitimate contractual basis for NCO to decertify” Marsh’s farm.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the 11-day hearing in February, scientists also testified that Roundup Ready canola swathes were harmless to animals, people and land even if consumed.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organic tolerance standards challenged</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The court case has highlighted contradictions in current Australian farming and organic certifying regulations. Professor Rick Roush from Melbourne University’s School of Land and Environment said he believes the case is unique to Australia, because the Australian organics industry has a zero tolerance to the presence of any GM material in certified organic produts.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In other countries, there is a tolerance for very small levels of legally approved seeds, or pollen, or whatever, to be found in a crop, even in organics,” he said. “In the United States, for example, there are broad-scale examples of GM and organic crops being grown in close proximity. In fact, in some farming operations in the United States the same farmer will be using both GM and organic production.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Australian court ruling has no direct impact upon U.S. law. While similar concerns and fears of “GMO contamination” are also widespread among organic farmers in the US, there has been no case in which an organic farmer has lost organic certification because of cross pollination. However, conventional growers have had grain rejected for shipment because of the presence of GMO seeds.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The US Department of Agriculture says there is no threshold for the amount of acceptable cross pollination, and handles the concern as such:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike many pesticides, there aren’t specific tolerance levels in the USDA organic regulations for GMOs. As such, National Organic Program policy states that trace amounts of GMOs don’t automatically mean the farm is in violation of the USDA organic regulations. In these cases, the certifying agent will investigate how the inadvertent presence occurred and recommend how it can be better prevented in the future.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a major review in 2011-12, the USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21) endorsed coexistence between farmers growing conventional, organic and genetically modified crops and rejected calls by organic activists for “zero tolerance”:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many commenters suggested that we establish a “threshold” for the unintended or adventitious presence of products of excluded methods in organic products. Some commenters argued that a threshold is necessary because, without the mandatory labeling of biotechnology-derived products, organic operations and certifying agents could not be assured that products of excluded methods were not being used. Others argued that, without an established threshold, the regulations would constitute a “zero tolerance” for products of excluded methods, which would be impossible to achieve.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We do not believe there is sufficient consensus upon which to establish such a standard at this time. Much of the basic, baseline information about the prevalence of genetically engineered products in the conventional agricultural marketplace that would be necessary to set such a threshold-e.g., the effects of pollen drift where it may be a factor, the extent of mixing at various points throughout the marketing chain, the adventitious presence of genetically engineered seed in nonengineered seed lots-is still largely unknown. Our understanding of how the use of biotechnology in conventional agricultural production might affect organic crop production is even less well developed.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, as was pointed out in some comments, the testing methodology for the presence of products of excluded methods has not yet been fully validated. Testing methods for some biotechnology traits in some commodities are becoming commercially available. Without recognized methods of testing for and quantifying of all traits in a wide range of food products, however, it would be very difficult to establish a reliable numerical tolerance.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s similar to the policy adopted by the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movement (IFOAM):</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organic certification shall not imply it is a ‘GE-free’ certification. Rather it shall be presented as guaranteeing ‘production without GE/GMOs’.  As there is no guarantee that organic products are 100% free … Organic producers and associations shall actively inform the consumers of this fact to insure fair marketing claims and to avoid future debates about consumer deception.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ben Copeman, general manager with Australian organic certifying organization NASAA, said his organization is working with farmer groups to figure out how different types of farming, including GM and organic farming, can co-exist in harmony going forward. He added that he is not opposed to a review of organic standards, including the zero tolerance on GM organisms, provided it takes into consideration what organic consumers want.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-GM campaigners reacted in outrage, claiming that the verdict sets a dangerous precedent because it leaves the use of GM crops largely unrestricted. Scott Kinnear, director of the Safe Food Foundation which funded Marsh’s campaign, said he is very disappointed and gravely concerned for the farmer, his family and farm, and for the future of organic and non-GM food in Australia remaining GM-free. Marsh said that he is considering an appeal.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Snooke, director of Pastoral and Graziers Association in Western Australia, welcomed the court’s decision, as there were more than 1,000 GM farmers in the region. He added that Marsh should have pursued the organic certification process, and not his neighbor.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What it means is the grains industry has certainty, that the protocols and the regulations we operate under cater for every type of farming in Australia,” he said. “The court has vindicated all farmers who choose to grow GM canola.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTE: XiaoZhi Lim, agricultural editor of the Genetic Literacy Project, co-authored this report</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank is also a friend of Jon Entine, founding executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project and one of the GMO and pesticide industry's favorite PR tools. He wrote his 2011 Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health for the American Council on Science and Health. ACSH requested $100,000 in funding for the book project from the GMO and pesticide corporation Syngenta as part of the company's PR campaign around its weed-killer atrazine, which was the subject of a major lawsuit, as CMD has reported. ACSH also receives regular operating support from Syngenta, which the email pitch called the organization's "lifeblood."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank's creator, Karl Haro von Mogel, recently met up with Entine in Puna, Hawai'i on their way to meet Dr. Dennis Gonsalves, the developer of GMO papayas. von Mogel wrote a gushing blog on his encounter with Entine "In Dennis, I had met the highest concentration of Aloha yet on the entire trip. If he were a plant, his leaves and roots exuded Aloha into the surrounding air and soil. It was infectious," before planting Frank in the papaya fields for a photo op. The two had presented together previously at a June 2013 GMO panel organized by the Cato Institute. And Entine has mentioned von Mogel in articles published in Forbes and elsewhere at least four times in recent months.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The target du jour is atrazine, the American farmer’s most popular weed killer, but it’s really modern chemistry that’s under assault. In case you missed it, Mother Jones magazine’s February issue rained frogs on American farmers for using atrazine. On Tuesday, PR Watch released a three-part series attacking its manufacturer, Syngenta, for attempting to “shape” news reports—in other words, to defend itself against the attacks exemplified in these articles.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This sudden burst of advocacy journalism shares a common theme besides End of Days hysteria: a devastating lack of respect for science. Mother Jones and PR Watch are known for channeling anti-chemical organics producers and working closely with class action lawyers, who in this case are attempting to back the EPA into a political corner for vast financial gain.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atrazine is an odorless powder applied to control weeds that would otherwise choke a crop and starve it of nutrients. It degrades quickly, does not bio-accumulate in organisms and is considered so comparatively gentle to crops that it can be used even after the first shoots appear above the ground.  A study commissioned by the EPA concluded that it boosts yields by 6 percent or more, saving corn farmers as much as $28 per acre—more than $2 billion in annual economic benefits. But to anti-chemical activists it’s a ticking time bomb.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The atrazine-will-destroy-us-theory rests substantially on the credibility of the research of Tyrone Hayes. The controversial University of California endocrinologist—and Hayes almost alone among experts—claims that microscopic levels of atrazine found in some drinking water supplies are carcinogenic and distort human development.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The protagonist of his theory and both the Mother Jones and PR Watch hit pieces is Darnell, one of Hayes’ colony of male African clawed frogs that are literally swimming in high levels of atrazine. In the latest of a series of such papers, in March 2010, Hayes and his student co-authors argued that atrazine produces males with ambiguous genitalia and soprano-like croaks—hermaphrodites, like Darnell. Hayes claims that humans are equally as vulnerable.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This decade-old narrative, horrific if you’re a frog trapped for life in Hayes’ laboratory atrazine brew, has been the staple of Environmental Working Group, Pesticide Action Network, Natural Resources Defense Council and other activists calling for its ban. After all, if it can turn Jack tadpoles into Janes, would you risk your child with tap water?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The science answer, which is more complicated and less emotionally satisfying than knee jerk reactions and hysteria: Extensive research concludes there is no substantial risk to humans or frogs for that matter from atrazine. In fact, international regulators are relaxing standards on atrazine as evidence accumulates of its comparative safety.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority reviewed the most recent Hayes study, finding the lab work flawed, reaffirming its conclusion that atrazine is safe as used. Scientists have determinedly tried to replicate Hayes’s findings to no avail. An unprecedented state of the art study by biologist Werner Kloas of Berlin’s Humboldt University(hayes cites?) —who is an outspoken supporter of precautionary bans on chemicals—showed no impact on frogs from atrazine exposure, low doses or high.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no field evidence to support his claims, either. “[W]e found that in those kinds of landscapes where corn is being grown, the great majority of the ponds we sampled didn’t have any deformities at all,” wrote Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies professor David Skelly, who Mother Jones bizarrely tries to portray as an admirer of Hayes. “To my knowledge (and I have participated in two EPA panels that reviewed available results) nobody else has been able to get this ultra low concentration effect.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes, we should be concerned about the ecological impact of environmental chemicals, but the real heat in this debate revolves around claims that frogs are good proxies for humans. They’re not. Amphibians are permeable beings that absorb moisture and some of their oxygen through their skin. We don’t swim our lives away in atrazine. They don’t swallow water like we do.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">High tech detection equipment may help scientists identify a thimble full of a chemical in Lake Erie, but the mere presence of a compound in water does not necessarily present a threat. According to the National Institutes of Health, studies have consistently shown that “a risk to human health [from atrazine is] essentially nonexistent.” But you’d never be presented with these eye-opening facts from reading the blogosphere echo chamber, or the New York Times, for that matter.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let me walk you through the process of how hysteria over atrazine is manufactured. In 2009, the NRDC made headlines with “Poisoning the Well,” a widely challenged investigation promoted in an equally problematic Times report soberly titled “Debating How Much Weed Killer is Safe in Your Water Glass.” Their key revelation: three water systems in the United States had occasional atrazine “spikes” above 3 parts per billion—which they said posed grave threats to humans. (For context, one part per billion is equivalent to ½ teaspoon of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool … or 2.5 seconds in a lifetime.)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following the lead of the Times, the media exploded with breathless stories of killer atrazine cocktails in our water supply. A few months later, the EPA cited the NRDC investigation in announcing it would again evaluate atrazine, barely three years after it had completed one of the most exhaustive scientific investigations ever undertaken, exonerating the chemical.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Are we in danger? Scientists, almost universally, say ‘no’. In 1989, the Safe Drinking Water Act set what is in effect “guideline values” for atrazine. That’s the 3ppb level that prompted the NRDC to yell fire in a movie house. But let’s be clear here. This is not the level at which a person would be harmed by atrazine exposure. It’s a level designed to signal authorities that they should attempt to identify the source of a chemical and take action to prevent further incursions.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What then is a safe drinking water level? Regulators call that a “no observed effect” level. A basic principle of toxicology is that at a high enough dose, all substances are toxic. Although chemicals are often referred to as “dangerous” or “safe”, as though these concepts were absolutes, in reality, these terms describe chemicals at various does that cause toxic effects. The no effect level is the lowest possible point at which no harm, including endocrine disruption, is detectable on the most sensitive known animal exposed to a chemical. For atrazine, it’s not the 3ppb guideline value brandished by advocacy groups. It ranges from 30,000 to more than 100,000 times less stringent—figures confirmed by the EPA.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Said another way, while the EPA says that water systems should address possible atrazine contamination when supplies average more than 3ppb for a full year, humans are not in harms way, based on animal tests, unless exposure levels are far far higher—as much as 350,00ppb!</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why the huge discrepancy? Because regulators add safety buffers beyond the no effect level. It’s standard for international regulators to increase the safety margin for chemical exposure by a factor of 100. In the case of atrazine, additional safety buffers were added years ago that exaggerate concerns. For example, the EPA added an additional buffer of 10 because it was originally believed atrazine causes cancer. They’ve since determined it doesn’t. Regulators also multiply by five times based on the assumption that 20% of our daily exposure comes from water, when the actual figure is 100%. (No atrazine is found on crops because it’s a pre-emergent weed killer.) The EPA’s Science Advisory Panel has taken voluminous testimony that the agency should follow the lead of other international regulators and dial back on these outdated, exaggerated multipliers.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So let’s go back to those field tests on atrazine. More than a decade of EPA data shows the average running exposure to atrazine in drinking water is less than 1 ppb. NRDC found—OMG—three water systems in which atrazine levels spiked for one day into the 20-30ppb level. In fact, the highest level ever recorded in treated water is 64ppb. Compare those numbers with the no effect levels for atrazine of 63,000-350,000ppb. Calling the NRDC’s claims, now mindlessly re-circulated by Mother Jones and PR Watch, hysterical is giving a genuine psychological disorder a bad name. It’s plain dishonest.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recognizing the absurdity of current standards, the World Health Organization recently relaxed its guideline threshold from 2ppb to 100ppb. WHO also noted that the potential danger of endocrine disruption—the centerpiece of Hayes’ argument—are almost non-existent in humans at this level.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I consider even that 100ppb figure very, very conservative,” said Les Davies, principal scientist with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, who was part of the team that reassessed the chemical for WHO.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“All compounds are toxic, everything,” Davies told me. “Activists just see a toxic study and immediately jump to recommending bans. There would be chaos if regulators responded to those fears. We are mandated to set levels that reflect real health problems, not fear levels.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental challenges are complex. Data is more important than ideology. If the EPA capitulates to hysteria, it will have a serious impact on the world food supply and the nutritionally poor, who depend on plentiful crops. It will hurt our economy. Most devastating, it will be a decisive, perhaps irreparable blow against sound science.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Making of an Agribusiness Apologist | Mother Jones</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.motherjones.com/.../atrazine-syngengta-tyrone-hayes-...</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mother Jones</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Tom Philpott - Feb 24, 2012 - Earlier this month, Forbes.com published an op-ed by Jon Entine in which he purported to debunk Dashka Slater's must-read recent Mother ...</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this month, Forbes.com published an op-ed by Jon Entine in which he purported to debunk [1] Dash</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ka Slater's must-read recent Mother Jones profile [2] of Tyrone Hayes, the UC Berkeley professor who found that tiny doses of the widely used herbicide atrazine affects frogs' sexual development.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, who describes himself [3] as an "author, think tank scholar, leadership and sustainability consultant, media commentator, and public speaker on the DNA of human behavior," accused Slater of blatantly overstating the dangers of atrazine, which shows up at low levels in drinking water [4] in farming-intensive areas in the Midwest and South. According to Entine, as it's currently used on American fields, atrazine poses no risks to people or farms. Entine called out Mother Jones for promoting "End of Days hysteria" and displaying "a devastating lack of respect for science." Now, Entine's critique of the science indicting atrazine is sophisticated and deserves to be answered. I have written critically about atrazine before, and much of Entine's critique of Slater's piece applies to my work as well. I'll be digging into that in a forthcoming post.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what caught my eye about Entine's post in the first place is that his name had shown up in a recent report by the Center for Media and Democracy (part one [5], part two [6]) about the efforts of Syngenta, the globe's largest agribusiness firm and the maker of atrazine, to protect its lucrative chemical from possible regulatory action by the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA is currently reviewing the herbicide's registration. Last year, a panel of independent scientists convened by the EPA recommended that the agency revise its assumption that atrazine is "unlikely to cause cancer." [7] Pointing to what it called "strong" epidemiological evidence linking atrazine to thyroid cancer, the panel states that the agency is currently acting with "inadequate information to assess carcinogenic potential." The European Union banned atrazine in 2004, based mainly on its tendency to run off into drinking water. A similar move by the EPA would cut into Syngenta's profits in the United States, where atrazine sells briskly [8] as an herbicide for our massive corn crop.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wikimedia Commons [10]Entine turned up in the Center for Media and Democracy's investigation because last year he authored a book, published and promoted by the American Council on Science and Health, called Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health [11]. "In response to the growing level of chemophobia—the irrational fear of chemicals—among the American public, ACSH compiled this resource book and position to educate legislators, industry, media, consumers and parents on the actual risks of chemical exposure and use in everyday products," a press release [11] for the book states. The book mounts a brief (nearly 30 of its 120 pages are bibliography) yet vigorous defense of industrial and agricultural chemical use, backed up by two case studies, one of which is on atrazine.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta has funded the American Council on Science and Health, CMD found. An email dated August 28, 2009 [12] (PDF) from ACSH's executive director to his "Syngenta friends" refers to the "general operating support Syngenta has been so generously providing over the years, which we request to continue at current or increased levels." It adds: "Such general operating support is the lifeblood of a small non-profit like ours, and is both deeply appreciated and much needed." The letter doesn't specify the level at which the company has supported ACSH. The organization, according to CMD, has annual revenues of more than $2 million a year; its president, the high-profile pro-agrichemical polemicist Elizabeth Whelan, draws a salary of $350,000.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ACSH email to Syngenta stated that "separate and distinct" from Syngenta's operating support, the group was seeking funding for a paper on the "general subject of pesticide exposure and consumer health." The paper, the budget for which ACSH put at $100,000, wouldn't focus exclusively on atrazine, but the "recent and ongoing 'controversy'" over Syngenta's herbicide would be a "primary focus." The email went out less than a week after the New York Times ran an investigative piece [13] on the presence of atrazine in Midwestern drinking water and shortly after the Natural Resources Defense Council released a report [14] (PDF) called "Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination of Drinking and Surface Water in the Central United States." ACSH said it would "consumerize" its pro-atrazine paper into a "consumer-friendly booklet," which then would be widely distributed to media, and "used as the basis for Op-eds, letters to the editor, media appearances, etc."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CMD's investigation does not establish whether ACSH ever got Syngenta funding for that project. But CMD raises the possibility that Entine's slim volume Scared to Death might be the very booklet that ACSH's executive director envisioned in his letter to Syngenta. Entine flat-out denied this suggestion in an email exchange. "Syngenta is not a client and never has been. I have no clients in the agricultural or chemicals businesses," he wrote. As for publishing a book with the Syngenta-funded ACSH, Entine responded:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No relationship with ACSH. I read a draft of an early version of a manuscript on chemical risk and thought it wasn't balanced—too critical of advocacy groups. They asked if I would write a new one. I said yes only if I had complete editorial independence. They agree. [sic] After publication I declined to be involved in any PR involving it. I hold the copyright not ACSH.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though he denies being a hired gun for Syngenta, Entine cuts an odd figure as an independent ally of atrazine. Since 2003, he has been listed as a visiting fellow [15] at the American Enterprise Institute, the pro-business, anti-regulation think tank. [16] Entine told me that he organized a 2009 conference on pesticides for AEI [17], moderating a panel featuring a Syngenta researcher; a rep from Croplife America, the main agrichemical industry lobbying group; and prominent pesticide critic Jay Feldman of Beyond Pesticides. Despite his affiliation, Entine said his title with AEI is "honorific." He explained in an email, "I don't work for AEI. I get zero dollars from AEI."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Something in the water: Predicted Atrazine occurrence in shallow ground water in farming areas US Geological Survey [18]Entine also runs a consultancy, ESG MediaMetrics. The firm's homepage [19] lists Monsanto as a "select client." Among its "core services," it lists [20] "Media strategy, writing, speechwriting, and engagement with critics." Describing its media [21] services, it declares, "We manage and create reputations. We bring to every challenge our vast experience as active journalists, public relations and media specialists, international scholars, and advisers for Fortune 500 corporations." On the bio [22] of personal web page, Entine has this to say about ESG MediaMetrics: The group "advises corporations and NGOs on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and on brand reputation and strategic communications." It adds: "Recent clients have included KKR, The Carlyle Group, The Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, P&G, American Greetings, Monsanto, DHL/Deutsche Post and Nicor."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To hear Entine tell it, his defenses of atrazine and other pesticides are entirely pro bono and driven by his own initiative. He told me he gets "almost all" of his income from the Genetic Literacy Project, which, he added, is funded by what he called the Templeton and Searle foundations. The project is housed at the Statistical Assessment Service program at George Mason University, where Entine is a fellow [23]. Though Entine would not specify which Searle trust funded the GLP, the Searle Freedom Trust's 2010 tax form [24] lists a $154,000 grant to STATS for a "Gene Policy and Science Literacy Project," which sounds an awful lot like Entine's. Founded by pharmaceutical and Nutrasweet magnate Daniel C. Searle [25], the Searle Freedom Trust funds all manner of conservative and free-market think tanks, including the Manhattan and Heartland Institutes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to an earlier version of the Genetic Literacy Project's website [26], it "fosters dialogue about the scientific, social and ethical implications of genetic technologies…It respects the uncertainties inherent in science but is grounded in the belief that genomic research is an engine of innovation and job creation." But the site included almost no information about what the project actually does. A "news [27]" tab opened a page featuring links to several Entine op-eds on topics that have nothing to do with genetics: pieces defending plastics [28], fracking [29], atrazine [30], and BPA [31].</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Until I got your email, I had no idea that the holding site for GLP had ANY articles on it, as it's supposed to just be a single page, and I haven't looked at it in a year. It's supposed to just have a summary…and as of later this afternoon [Feb. 16] it will only have that until the full GLP site goes up in a few weeks, as I just called the webmaster, who apparently had been rotely posting some of my articles.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And indeed, the GLP website has been reduced to a stub [32]; the links I provided above are to archived pages. The real Genetic Literacy Project site will be brimming with information about genetic science and related social issues, Entine assured me. "Unlike advocacy genetic sites," he added, "it will not have a specifically pro or anti genetics agenda. It's meant to be a transparent information site for policy and media people."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But then again, according to Entine, neither he himself, nor the organizations he affiliates with, ever have an agenda. At one point in our correspondence, I asked him about the famously right-wing, pro-corporate American Enterprise Institute. "I don't know your beef with AEI, but anybody who affiliates with them is totally independent," he wrote. "I'm an Obama Democrat and there are many non-ideologues there."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Julie Gunlock</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 6, 2012 4:54 P.M.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ve written on this site several times before about bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical used in everyday products like baby bottles, storage containers, and in the lining of canned food and the bad science surrounding efforts to ban it.  Now science writer Jon Entine has a must-read article in Forbes that confirms long-held suspicions about the motivations of activists opposed to the use of BPA.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Baker actually admitted his error to Entine, saying “I have no evidence, none at all, that BPA causes any problems in humans. This was a theoretical exercise, and it would be trumped by what actually happens in the real world. Based on what I know now, neither BPA nor its metabolites are harmful. I am upset that my structural study is misused by some.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just a tiny little mistake that causes moms like me to gnaw off their fingernails at the thought that we might be poisoning our children with chemicals. But that’s okay; regular moms and dads (already struggling with high food and fuel costs) can just run out and support the cottage industry that has sprouted up in the wake of these terrifying headlines — the BPA-free industry.  Parents won’t mind that these products are much more expensive. After all, isn’t your baby’s health worth it? Surely parents aren’t already cash-strapped with the truck-load of diapers they purchase on a monthly basis along with the toys, books, and other baby items one simply must supply a child with these days.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, what parents won’t hear about is Baker’s mea culpa because if there’s one thing parents can count on from today’s science writers it is an absolute dearth of Entine-esque journalism when it comes to BPA. Baker’s study might not have generated such dramatic headlines if these journalists had revealed, as Entine does, that Baker has zero prior expertise in studying BPA or that his study didn’t include humans or even animals but rather was a computer simulation. Even more stunning, Entine discovered that Baker was unaware of the quite impressive body of research that shows BPA is safe.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, thousands of studies conducted have shown BPA to be perfectly safe, yet those with an evangelical interest in continuing the hand-wringing about BPA cling desperately to any shred of information, no matter how far-fetched, supporting their position. And now, the very researchers who study BPA can’t be counted on to stick by their own findings that BPA is safe. </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Jon writes for academic and popular publications around the world and is a frequent television and radio commentator on business issues, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, NPR, and BBC. He has written and edited five books, most recently No Crime But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extra-judicial Prosecution (TFG Books, 2009), which focuses on the dangers of over zealous government prosecutors and the threat they pose to American civil liberties.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Before launching his consulting and writing career, Jon spent 20 years as a network television news producer, winning more than twenty awards including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced news magazine programs at ABC News and CBS News, an entertainment special for NBC (on the Miss America Pageant!), and was Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News, where he was also the executive in charge of documentaries.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In 1989, Tom and Jon collaborated to write and produce Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, named Best International Sports Film of 1989), which led to his best-selling book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to Talk About It (Public Affairs, 2000), which was recently reissued. AEI has published two books written and edited by Jon: Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (AEI Press, 2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (AEI Press, 2006), which examines the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. In 2007, Jon published Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), which merges genealogy, genetics, and religion to vividly bring to life a new understanding of Western identity and the shared biblical ancestry of Jews and Christians. It addresses efforts to identify cures for diseases that disproportionately impact specific populations and the social and political tempest that a renewed focus on “race” research is stirring...</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response, Syngenta CP's Steven Goldsmith sent an email to Josh Gilder of WHWG and Mike Burita at Quinn Thomas asking an interesting question (PDF).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Is there anyone at HP [HuffPo] who we could cultivate on this issue rather than continuing to get bashed by everyone on their payroll?"</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WHWG and Quinn Thomas had already been hard at work for six months on an array of tactics to advance Syngenta PR's third party strategy on atrazine.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One was to have Syngenta's chief scientist, Dr. Mike Bushell, ghostwrite a chapter for a book challenging the idea of regulating atrazine by applying the "precautionary principle."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This standard, which is embedded in U.S. and EU consumer law, places the burden of proof on manufacturers to establish that their products are not harmful if science points to significant risks to human health or the environment. WHWG said (PDF) it would "find someone else willing to put their name" on Syngenta's "Ghost Author" story about atrazine and challenge the potential embrace of the precautionary principle by the Obama Administration's EPA.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ghostwritten chapter was for a book to be published in conjunction with someone at the American Enterprise Institute, a DC think tank that is funded in part by large donations from corporations. It is not known whether Syngenta has funded this think tank or any of its "fellows," directly or indirectly.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also Needed: An Investigative Reporter to Rattle the EPA's Cages</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On December 3, 2009, Syngenta's in-house PR staff held a planning meeting to deal with the fallout from the New York Times investigation, the agenda (PDF) was to "[o]btain the services of a well know (sic) investigative reporter to probe around the EPA" and, at a minimum get advice "on what buttons to push and cages to rattle."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As part of the effort to influence EPA's review, another tactic was to identify long-term needs for published materials and which third parties "should be approached/retained."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unsealed e-mails reveal (PDF) that earlier that same week WHWG had reported to Syngenta that a third party the PR team was in communication with was Jon Entine of the American Enterprise Institute. Entine is a former producer with NBC and ABC News, whose books attacked the idea of socially responsible investing and the precautionary principle (Let Them Eat Precaution).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the e-mails uncovered in the litigation reveal, Whelan had also submitted a new financial proposal from ACSH for a special project from Syngenta. The proposal began “Dear Syngenta friends” and proposed that ACSH produce a publication on pesticide and Atrazine exposure and human health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She was seeking $100,000 to publish and consumerize a discussion of “myths and realities” about agribusiness chemicals and health.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Her proposal concluded by noting that her request was separate from the “general operating support Syngenta has been so generously providing over the years, which we request to continue at current or increased levels. Such general operating support is the lifeblood of a small non-profit like ours, and is both deeply appreciated and much needed.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whelan, the president of the non-profit ASCH, is paid over $350,000 a year out of the organization’s $2 million in annual income, as of 2009. It is not clear how much "lifeblood" Syngenta pays each year as its generous contribution to ACSH budget and Whelan’s large salary.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACSH’s published materials include a boilerplate disclaimer that it accepts grants from any source but that it is solely responsible for its research and that it “does not accept support from individual corporations for specific research projects.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spinning the Idea of “Chemophobia”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While aiding in attacks on Duhigg’s New York Times reporting, Whelan pushed the idea that people expressing concerns were engaged in “chemophobia,” an irrational fear of chemicals.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The e-mails contained in the court record are incomplete regarding ACSH’s project grant proposal, the total funding it has received over the years, and the subsequent funding for ACSH, WHWG, and others post-spring 2010.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevertheless, it is plain that Syngenta’s PR operations did not suddenly cease that spring, with the EPA’s decision on atrazine still pending along with ongoing litigation in the state and federal courts.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And just last month a long-time friend of Syngenta announced the release of a new book.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was finalized in 2011 along with a “companion friendly” paper called “Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health.” The book attacks the EPA and “harmful, unnecessary regulation” as well as the precautionary principle.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It has a chapter-long “case study” defending atrazine, just as members of the Syngenta PR team had been seeking.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book? Designed to rattle the cages at the EPA, which was on the Syngenta PR team's wishlist.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The author? John Entine, described as a highly regarded science reporter from the American Enterprise Institute, a third party Syngenta’s PR team had been cultivating.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The HuffPo contributor who wrtote about the book and its attack on critics of atrazine? It was Entine, whom Syngenta trusted. HUH?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bisphenol A or BPA, molecular formula C15H16O2, is an organic compound that is used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, among other things. BPA is an estrogenic - it has properties which can mimic the effects of the human hormone estrogen - it is an endocrine disruptor.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BPA is added to the lining of foods and drinks cans and, according to studies, interferes with reproductive development in animals, including humans. BPA levels in humans have been associated with a higher risk of developing several diseases and conditions, including obesity, diabetes type 2, and cardiovascular diseases.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BPA has also been found in polycarbonate bottles, which are identified by recycling number seven, as well as dentistry sealants and composites.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2008, concern regarding BPA became a public theme in the media after the governments of several nations questioned its safety - many retailers in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australasia made moves to remove BPA-containing food products from their shelves.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2010 US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) report expressed concern regarding exposure of BPA to fetuses, infants and young children. Canadian authorities declared BPA a toxic substance in 2010 - the first country to do so. BPA is banned in baby bottles in the European Union and Canada.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prenatal exposure to BPA has been associated with subsequent neurological difficulties.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is an American author, journalist, think tank scholar and consultant. He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University[1] and a senior fellow at GMU's STATS (Statistical Assessment Service),[2] where he is founder and director of the Genetic Literacy Project.[3] He has been a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C[4] since 2002. He writes a column (since 2001) for the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation, Forbes.com and contributes to newspapers and magazines around the world. Entine is also the founder of ESG MediaMetrics,[5] which offers crisis management and sustainability WTF consulting in environmental, social and governance areas, and he advises organizations on brand reputation and strategic communications....In 2011, Entine joined the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University as a senior fellow and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, which focuses on the nexus of genetics—human and agricultural—with the media and public policy. He is also a senior research fellow at GMU's Center for Health & Risk Communication. Entine joined the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research as an adjunct scholar in 2002, and is now a visiting scholar. His research focuses on science and society and corporate responsibility/sustainability. AEI Press has published three books written and edited by Entine: Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (February 2011), which analyzes the impact of chemicals in agriculture; Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (January 2006), which examined the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. He has also contributed to numerous academic books on a variety of subjects, including sports, genetics, leadership, and sustainability.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Entine is an American author, journalist, think tank scholar and consultant. He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University[1] and a senior fellow at GMU's STATS (Statistical Assessment Service),[2] where he is founder and director of the Genetic Literacy Project.[3] He has been a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C[4] since 2002. He writes a column (since 2001) for the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation, Forbes.com and contributes to newspapers and magazines around the world. Entine is also the founder of ESG MediaMetrics,[5] which offers crisis management and sustainability consulting in environmental, social and governance areas, and he advises organizations on brand reputation and strategic communications.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is known for an independent and distinctive public identity, often taking contrarian or controversial stands but not strictly ideological ones. He is a speaker at universities and civic organizations, and is a frequent guest on national news and political commentary television and radio shows in the United States and Europe. He lives in Cincinnati.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 Biography</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Television Journalism</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 Awards</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 The Body Shop Controversy</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 Genetics</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 Think Tank Affiliations</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Books</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 References</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 External links</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biography</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1952 and later relocated with his family to the suburb of Cheltenham. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1974 with a B.A. in philosophy. Entine had briefly dropped out of college in 1972 to run the presidential primary campaign for Senator George McGovern in Sullivan County in New Hampshire. After graduation, he became the assistant director for the re-election campaign of Father Robert Drinan, a liberal Democratic Congressman from suburban Boston.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine began his journalism career in high school, when he worked as a weekend copyboy for the CBS owned-and-operated TV station then known as WCAU. During his freshman year of college, he edited and produced the 11 p.m. news for the local NBC affiliate in West Hartford/New Britain. After the 1974 Congressional campaign, in January 1975, Entine was hired as a writer by the ABC News program AM America, which was renamed Good Morning America the following year. Entine worked for ABC News as a writer, assignment desk editor, and producer in New York City and Chicago from 1975-1983 for various ABC News programs, including the ABC Evening News, 20/20 and Nightline. He took a leave of absence from ABC News in 1981-1982 to study at the University of Michigan under a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in journalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine joined NBC News in New York in 1984 as a special segment producer for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, where he worked until 1990. He became Brokaw’s long-time producer. In 1989, Entine and Brokaw collaborated to write and produce Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, named Best International Sports Film of 1989. Entine was later named the executive in charge of documentaries at NBC News (1989–1990). He rejoined ABC News in 1991 as an investigative producer for Primetime (TV series). In 1993 Entine produced a story with reporter Sam Donaldson on eye surgery clinics that led to a lawsuit against them and Primetime alleging trespass and defamation due to the use of "test patients". The case was mostly dismissed in January 1995 and a defamation suit was dismissed in 2000.[6][7] He produced a prime time special on the Miss America Pageant, "Miss America: Beyond the Crown" for NBC Entertainment in 1994 before transitioning to book writing and print journalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has won 19 journalism awards, including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union and a National Press Club award in Consumer Journalism.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's first print piece, the September 1994 investigative article, "Shattered Image: Is The Body Shop Too Good to Be True?,[8]" in Business Ethics magazine, created an international brouhaha and led to hundreds of stories in the international media, including articles in The New York Times and a report on ABC World News Tonight. The flurry of news stories led to a temporary 50% drop in the market value of the stock of The Body Shop, a British-based international cosmetics company, which until that point had been considered a model "socially responsible" company.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine reported that Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, in 1976, had stolen the name, store design, marketing concept and most product line ideas from a different cosmetic chain with the same name, The Body Shop, founded in 1970 in San Francisco by two California women, and subsequently fabricated her story of traveling around the world discovering exotic beauty ingredients. (In 1989, Roddick purchased the U.S. and Israeli rights to The Body Shop name from the original Body Shop founders, and the San Francisco based chain of five stores renamed itself Body Time). He reported that Roddick's "natural" products contained extensive amounts of artificial colorings, scents and preservatives. Despite Roddick's claims and unverified reports in popular articles and even some university case studies that Roddick and The Body Shop "gave most of its profits to charity," as Roddick had proclaimed, documents from Britain's Charity Commission showed that the company gave nothing to charity over its first 11 years and was penurious in its philanthropy thereafter, despite Roddick's claims. The Body Shop also faced millions of dollars in claims by disenchanted franchisees, who believed they had been enticed to buy franchises by misrepresenting its potential revenue.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How The Body Shop tried to stop this information from getting mainstream:[3] The article in Business Ethics (now defunct), which was cited with a National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism in 1994, is widely used in university business ethics classes and is generally credited with prompting companies claiming to be socially responsible to match their claims with operational practices and to increase transparency.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Shattered Image" had originally been scheduled to be published as a 10,000 word feature in Vanity Fair earlier in 1994 but was dropped after legal threats by The Body Shop, which threatened to litigate under British libel law, which requires proof of innocence by defendants rather than proof of guilt by the prosecution. The original article was eventually published in 2004 by The Nation Books in Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print,[9] edited by David Wallis. Business Ethics, which had featured Roddick on its cover just the year before, printed a much shorter version of the exposé commissioned for Vanity Fair. "Shattered Image" and subsequent writings by Entine on the emerging "socially responsible" business movement challenged the belief that companies that promote themselves as socially conscious necessarily operate with a higher degree of ethics or social responsibility than conventional companies. Entine's writing focused on what he called "reality rather than rhetoric" of ethical business. He is often credited for coining the term "green washing",[10] which refers to the deceptive marketing exploits of self-professed "green" companies.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is the founding director of the Genetic Literacy Project,[11] which is under the umbrella of STATS at George Mason University, and is affiliated with the Center for Risk & Health Communication. It focuses on the nexus of media, policy and genetics, both human and agricultural.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has written three books on genetics. Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution[12] addresses the controversy over genetic modification in agriculture. His first book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It[13] was inspired by the documentary on black athletes written with Brokaw in 1989. It was favorably reviewed by The New York Times[14] and numerous other publications. There were some critical reviews, claiming that the subject was inappropriate as it could encourage a racialist view of human relations.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2007, Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People,[15] which examined the shared ancestry of Jews, Christians and Muslims, and addressed the question "Who is a Jew?" as seen through the prism of DNA, was published. Entine also addresses the controversial issue of why Jews are disproportionately successful and reviews studies that show that Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQ test scores than other population groups, writing that IQ is mostly heritable. Kirkus Reviews called the book an epic tale of 'The Chosen People'...Engaging and informative reading for Jews and non-Jews alike. According to Library Journal, [Jon Entine's] explorations take him from his own Jewish family members' cancer diagnoses to genetic labs—both academic and commercial—across the world, with lengthy forays into Jewish history, the history of Israel and Zionism, and the split between social anthropology and biological anthropology. Harry Ostrer in Nature Genetics called it a broad, well-documented sweep of Jewish history that will inform even the most knowledgeable of readers".[16]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine is a public speaker on genetics and identity for the Jewish National Fund[17] and the Jewish Federations of North America.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011, Entine joined the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University as a senior fellow and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, which focuses on the nexus of genetics—human and agricultural—with the media and public policy. He is also a senior research fellow at GMU's Center for Health & Risk Communication. Entine joined the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research as an adjunct scholar in 2002, and is now a visiting scholar. His research focuses on science and society and corporate responsibility/sustainability. AEI Press has published three books written and edited by Entine: Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (February 2011), which analyzes the impact of chemicals in agriculture; Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (January 2006), which examined the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. He has also contributed to numerous academic books on a variety of subjects, including sports, genetics, leadership, and sustainability.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? 2011, ISBN 978-0-8447-4361-5</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health, 2011, ISBN 978-0-578-07561-7</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No Crime But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extrajudicial Prosecution, 2009, ISBN 978-0-692-00282-7</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People, 2008, ISBN 0-446-58063-5</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution, 2006, ISBN 0-8447-4200-7</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing, 2005, ISBN 0-8447-4218-X</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It, 2000, ISBN 1-58648-026-X</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://chrc.gmu.edu/scholars</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://stats.org/about_staff.htm</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.aei.org/scholar/100007%7Ctitle=Jon Entine|work=Scholars & Fellows|publisher=AEI}}</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.esgmediametrics.com</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Russomanno, Joseph (2002). "J.H. Desnick, M.D. Eye Services, Ltd., et al. vs American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Jon Entine, and Sam Donaldson". Speaking our minds: conversations with the people behind landmark First Amendment cases. Psychology Press. pp. 134–169.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ "Libel suit against ABC’s ‘PrimeTime Live’ dismissed". The News Media & The Law. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Winter 2001. Retrieved 4 October 2011.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.jonentine.com/the-body-shop.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.amazon.com/Killed-Great-Journalism-Too-Print/dp/1560255811</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://books.google.com/books?id=EzWq4npYzY4C&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=%22Jon+Entine%22+term+greenwashing&source=bl&ots=YQYazV5ZHT&sig=Zn8IUpv2hJ1x7YfqBW7U1LxH3qY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f14YT_3MBoba0QGq9Lm1Cw&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22Jon%20Entine%22%20term%20greenwashing&f=false</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://books.google.com/books/about/Let_them_eat_precaution.html?id=K60fAQAAIAAJ</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Athletes-Dominate-Sports-Afraid/dp/1891620398, (PublicAffairs, 2000; re-released 2007)</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/entine-taboo.html "Breaking the Taboo on Race and Sports"</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.abrahamschildren.net/</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ A genetic view of Jewish history. Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People By Jon Entine. Grand Central Publishing, 2007. 432 pp., hardcover, $27.99 ISBN 978-0-446-58063-2. Reviewed by Harry Ostrer. Nature Genetics 2008, 40:2</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ http://www.jnf.org/about-jnf/in-your-area/speakers/perspectives-on-israel/jon-entine.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External links</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The article, by Emmy-award-winning journalist Jon Entine, alleged that some of the Body Shop's "natural" products contained cheap, petrochemical-laden ingredients; that lax quality-control resulted in the sale of some contaminated products; that charitable giving fell short of even the national corporate average; and that journalists who had tried to challenge the company's marketing hype had been silenced with libel threats.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As if to demonstrate this last point, Body Shop lawyers sent Kelly two letters containing "strongly worded legal threats" before she went to press with "Shattered Image," she says. But Kelly refused to back down. "The Body Shop story had to be told, chiefly for the lessons it provided those who seek to promote ethical business practices," Kelly says. She checked and rechecked Entine's sources and scheduled the piece for her September/October 1994 issue.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[In March 2006, The Body Shop agreed to a £652.3 million takeover by L'Oréal [National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award: 1995 Honorable Mention..] </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I went to press in the face of threats from an enormous company because I knew that what we printed was true," she says. "Even if I was 100 percent correct, however, I could be put out of business. The cost of getting to the summary-judgment phase--where the judge says there is no basis for this charge--would run $100,000," an amount that would take the business right out of Business Ethics.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop's litigiousness helped persuade Vanity Fair to nix a version of Entine's investigation. With help from public-relations giant Hill and Knowlton-particularly from vice-chairman Frank Mankiewicz, a former president of National Public Radio--the Body Shop launched a full-scale counter-attack on Entine's credibility.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Body Shop denied the charges, dismissed the credibility of Entine's sources, and characterized Kelly's decision to publish the piece as an irresponsible attempt to garner attention for her small magazine.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly after publication, National Public Radio interviewed Entine on the air. After the program, Mankiewicz helped persuade NPR to run a follow-up story that included comment from Body Shop supporters.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Like any other company, we should go to any length to protect ourselves when we feel like we're being dealt with unjustly," says Body Shop spokesman Bryan Weaver.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelly stands by the story she published: "For all its bluster, the Body Shop has failed to document a single error of fact in our article," she says.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other organizations have since published independent research that corroborates many of En-tine's conclusions. Franklin Research and Development, a Boston-based ethical investment firm, awarded the Body Shop its highest social ratings in 1991. But in 1994, Franklin's newsletter supported many of Entine's charges against the company and rebuked the Body Shop for its combative stance toward critics: "The Body Shop's bombastic tactics have set back any legitimate attempts by the company to change."</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late September, Kelly discovered to her amazement that the Body Shop had acquired her subscriber list without her authorization. The Body Shop used the list to send out a ten-page refutation to the magazine's readers. Signed by chairman Gordon Roddick, the letter stated that Entine's article was "filled with lies, distortions, and gross inaccuracies," with "almost no attempt to observe the normal standards of journalism." The Business Ethics list manager, Stevens-Knox and Associates, learned of the mailing through employees whose names were planted on the list as decoys--a customary practice to guard against misuse of subscriber addresses.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The author charts every imagined environmental disaster such as <b>Times Beach</b> and Love Canal, every law that has been passed — and, of course, the impact of the terribly flawed book Silent Spring.</span> Best of all, Entine<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> unveils the manner in which the federal EPA determines how Maximum Contaminant Levels are determined for all human exposures — making clear that one could comfortably consume a hundred times more of most chemicals without fearing negative impacts</span>. He also points out how many chemicals and drugs are withheld from society when their benefits far outweigh their risk.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The problem began when Bliss took a contract with a local company called ICP to dispose of toxic waste.[2] ICP was being paid $3,000 per load to remove toxic waste from Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company (NEPACCO). ICP in turn paid Bliss $125 to eliminate the waste.[2] <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">NEPACCO operated a facility producing hexachlorophene in Verona, Missouri. Some parts of the facility had been used for the production of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, and the waste clay and water contained levels of dioxin some 2,000 times higher than the dioxin content in Agent Orange.</span>[2] Bliss claimed he was unaware that the waste contained dioxin, having even sprayed it around his own home.[2]</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On December 5, 1982, the Meramec River flooded, causing an evacuation as more than 95% of the city was covered with 10 feet (3.0 m) or more of water.[2] Flood stage was 18.5 feet (5.6 m) and the water crested at 42.88 feet (13.07 m).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On December 23, 1982, the EPA announced it had identified dangerous levels of dioxin in Times Beach's soil. Panic spread through the town, with many illnesses, miscarriages, and animal deaths attributed to the dioxin.[2] <b>President Ronald Reagan formed a dioxin task force.</b> At the time, dioxin was hailed as "the most toxic chemical synthesized by man," based on its extreme toxicity in guinea pigs.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon founded ESG MediaMetrics, an alliance of strategic partners, to address an unfilled frustration voiced by corporations, business groups and civil society organizations: how</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">to manage the complex nexus of media, public policy and sustainable management.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon is the founder of the Genetic Literacy Project and a Senior Fellow at the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University. He is also a columnist for</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation and a frequent writer for publications around the world, from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Forbes and Business Week to The Times of London, The Australian Financial Review and</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Toronto Globe R.O.B. (Report on Business). He is also author and editor of seven</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">books and has appeared as a guest commentator on hundreds off TV and radio shows, on every major US news network, and on many international programs, and has been profiled on ABC News 20/20. Jon has been a scholar since 2003 at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., where he writes on science and society.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before launching his consulting and writing career, Jon spent 19 years as a network news producer, winning 20 awards, including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced news magazine programs at ABC News and CBS News, an entertainment special for NBC, and was Tom Brokaw's long-time producer</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">at NBC News, where he was also the executive in charge of documentaries. Jon has served as a lecturer at various universities, including Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, NYU and most recently Miami (Ohio), where he was scholar-in-residence. Jon graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1974 with a degree</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in philosophy and earned a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Journ=</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the Environmental Protection Agency, atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides in the world. The odorless white powder is used on dozens of crops, including more than half of the country’s corn, 90 percent of its sugar cane and two-thirds of its sorghum. It’s applied to control a wide range of broadleaf and yield-robbing grassy weeds that would otherwise choke a crop and starve it of nutrients, but do not harm the plant itself. It’s considered so comparatively gentle that it can be applied even after a crop’s first shoots appear above the ground.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently, Australia’s Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts—it’s EPA—carefully reviewed Hayes latest study, from 2010, finding the lab work flawed and recommending no change to its conclusion that atrazine is safe as used. The EPA concurs. Donald Brady, director of the EPA’s Environmental Fate and Effects Division, stated in a publicly released letter that the agency “could not properly account for the sample sizes and study design reportedly used by the Berkeley researchers.” That’s bureaucratize and science-speak for saying Hayes peddles junk science.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ELLE bites back against biotech apologist Jon Entine's attack on the magazine's recent piece on GM.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTE: For more on Entine and his connection to biotech interests see our piece:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Manufactured scientific debate, third-party experts, and Jon Entine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/14800</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let's Discuss (Again): The GMO Food Debate</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because the issue of the safety of genetic modified food is such a deeply contentious one, when ELLE published Caitlin Shetterly’s story "Bad Seed," we expected that some might object that it unfairly maligned GMOs. And Jon Entine, the author of Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health, has done that in Slate.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In our piece, Shetterly recounts how she and her allergist came to believe that genetically altered corn was the probable cause of the debilitating, allergic illness that afflicted her, one marked by a profusion of a kind of white blood cells called eosinophils. Her point of view was clear, but at the same time she—and ELLE—were committed to airing both sides of the GMO debate.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Entine, however, ignored passages in the piece that didn’t fit his thesis that so-called “lifestyle magazines” like ELLE “credulously stoke conspiratorial fears” about GMOs. </span>For example, Shetterly included the perspective of Amal Assa’ad, MD, a professor at the University of Cincinnati medical school, who dismisses Shetterly’s anxiety over GMO’s safety “as almost magical thinking.” The story continues: “What’s wrong with chemicals?” [Assa’ad] asked. “We’re so afraid of chemicals because they are man-made, right? A lot of chemicals have helped us—a lot of medications are chemicals.” If anything, GMO foods have been a boon to mankind, Assa’ad said. GMO seeds “produce better crops that have increased production, that are resistant to pesticides—crops that can feed the rest of the world.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine also communicated with Shetterly’s sources, some of whom took issue with how their opinions were portrayed. After reviewing the work of Shetterly and ELLE’s fact-checker—who examined the transcripts of interviews with each source and/or confirmed their statements via email or by phone—<b>we stand by our story.</b></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two of the people who complained when contacted by Entine are (or were) doctors affiliated with the University of Cincinnati medical school’s Center for Pediatric Eosinophilic Disorders. Allergist Karl von Tiehl, for example, told Slate that his “voice was used inappropriately to imply that there is a scientifically substantiated link between GMO foods and eosinophilic disorders in humans.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But, in fact, Shetterly stated, precisely, that Von Tiehl did not know if such a link existed:</span> Von Tiehl doesn’t know if GMO crops are the culprit, but he says, “you’re eating what somebody in some office has decided is good for you rather than what your grandma would have told you is good for you.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the course of reporting the piece, Shetterly spoke with a number of researchers and medical professionals who told her they couldn’t go on the record about their doubts about GMOs because they feared being sued by a biotech or agriculture company, or losing grant money provided by the private sector. Von Tiehl—who also told Entine that ELLE’s article wrongly suggested that he thinks “there is something scary or obviously wrong or concerning about GMO foods”—was one of those who worried about his legal exposure.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CS: Do you read labels and see all those hidden places where GMO corn is like xanthan gum, citric acid, ascorbic acid, natural flavorings? [GMO corn is used to make all those substances.] Would you not buy those things?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">KVT: I can’t answer that question for legal reasons.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CS: Really?...</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">KVT: I can’t tell you how I have personally changed my diet.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CS: Because you’re afraid of being sued?</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">KVT: Because I’m afraid of being sued by big agribusiness.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for Entine, he clearly believes that the science proves that GMOs are harmless, which is also the position of the FDA, which we acknowledge in our story. Based on the Slate piece and his body of work, we presume that Entine would take issue with any article that devotes sustained attention to questioning GMOs. And that’s his prerogative, of course.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’d stop here, but Entine got a little ad-hominem—or should I say ad-feminen—in his rebuttal of our piece. Writing that, in the same issue in which Shetterly’s piece appeared, our editor in chief Robbie Myers “bragged” about women’s magazines’ commitment to serious journalism, Entine wrote, “If ELLE has the journalistic integrity that it claims for itself, Ms. Meyers [sic.] would withdraw the Shetterly piece and publish an article that sets the record straight.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since we’re setting the record straight, Entine also runs a consulting business called ESG MediaMetrics. “We manage and create reputations,” its website says. “We bring to every challenge our vast experience as active journalists, public relations and media specialists, international scholars, and advisers for Fortune 500 corporations.” In other words, he’s a hired gun who, it happens, counts Monsanto—one of the biggest producers of GMO seeds in the world—as a “select client.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Or at least that’s what his website said until at least February of last year, when Mother Jones reporter Tom Philpott wrote a piece about Entine called “The Making of an Agribusiness Apologist.” Philpott directly asked Entine about the Monsanto connection. “Nine years ago,” Entine responded in an email, “I did a $2,000 research project for v-Fluence, a social media company formed by former Monsanto executives. That’s the entirety of my Monsanto relationship.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Okay, but if they were really “former” Monsanto execs, perhaps Entine shouldn’t have “bragged” on his website that Monsanto was among his “select clients.” Or perhaps the most principled act with regard to Shetterly’s piece would have been for Entine to disclose his former connection to Monsanto when he attacked ELLE's journalistic integrity.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Anti-GMO Scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini, Activist Jeffrey Smith Withdraw from Food Biotech Debate</b></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Genetic Literacy Project reports, over the weekend, the cartoonish <b>‘March Against Monsanto’</b> played out in many cities across the United States and the world, invariably to small crowds—although the organizers and anti-biotech NGOs did their best to claim inflated numbers in an attempt to garner headlines.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the biggest disappointments for organizers was in foodie central, Denver, where an estimated two hundred people (organizers had predicted 5,000) turned out to hear anti biotech author and activist <b>Jeffrey Smith</b> rail against Monsanto.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s the same Jeffrey Smith who earlier last week withdrew from the planned “Great Biotechnology” debate scheduled for June 4 at the CATO Institute in Washington, DC. The event was shaping up to be a genuine first—a civil discussion between pro-science advocates sympathetic to the role of biotechnology in food and farming and dedicated opponents who believe transgenic foods are a violation of nature and harmful to humans and animals.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith, if you’re not familiar with him, founded an organization known as the Institute for Responsible Technology. He’s written two anti-biotech self-published books and produced a documentary narrated by the wife of Dr. Mehmet Oz, whose show he has appeared on numerous times to rail against Monsanto and crop biotechnology.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oz often characterizes Smith as a “scientist.” However his employment history reflects no formal training in any aspect of science, let alone biotechnology. Keith Kloor, who writes a respected blog for Discover, refers to him as a prototypical purveyor of pseudo-science. “He is the equivalent of an anti-vaccine leader, someone who is quite successful in spreading fear and false information,” Kloor writes.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Kloor notes, Smith’s Wikipedia bio seems a fair representation of his cult following and importance among anti-GM campaigners:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A variety of American organic food companies see Smith “as a champion for their interests”, and Smith’s supporters describe him as “arguably the world’s foremost expert on the topic of genetically modified foods”. Michael Specter, writing in The New Yorker, reported that Smith was presented as a “scientist” on The Dr. Oz Show although he lacks any scientific experience or relevant qualifications. Bruce Chassy, a molecular biologist and food scientist, wrote to the show arguing that Smith’s “only professional experience prior to taking up his crusade against biotechnology is as a ballroom-dance teacher, yogic flying instructor, and political candidate for the Maharishi cult’s natural-law party.” The director of the Organic Consumers Association says Smith is “respected as a public educator on GMOs” while “supporters of biotechnology” have described him as “misinformed and misleading” and as “an activist with no scientific or medical background” who is known for his “near-hysterical criticism of biotech foods.”</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When I was putting together this panel, I had originally sought out the Center for Food Safety and the Union of Concerned Scientists to participate, but they declined. In controversies, you don’t get to choose your opposition; the public does that for you. So I turned to Smith to represent the “other side.” For whatever reason, Smith has become wildly popular among the antis, and his books—however dubiously written and sourced—are cited as canon by rank and file protestors.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite his questionable reputation among serious scientists (he is often referred to in conversations with top geneticists as a ‘scam artist’) over the course of the months planning this event we talked many times. I found Smith to be engaging, witty, and in his own way very smart. I too wondered if he was a huckster, cashing in on his new celebrity; I can say, honestly, I found him nothing if not sincere. At every step along the process, he demonstrated integrity. I believe his understanding of science, risk and genetics are frighteningly thin, but I don’t believe the misinformation he is spouting is entirely calculated. I like him to this day, and hope at some point we can re-engage in a civil and open discussion.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith and I are communicators, although of two very different kinds. As we were planning the event, we agreed it would be best to bring scientists into the mix. He opted to recruit French professor Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen, whose paper released last fall claiming that rats fed Monsanto’s genetically modified corn developed multiple cancerous tumors turned him into a global celebrity among anti-biotech campaigners. The anomalous study wassavaged by mainstream scientists and rejected by every major independent research organization in the world that reviewed it. It was rife with methodological problems and obvious ideological biases.  Nonetheless it has become a poster child for “GMOs will kill you” and Monsanto conspiracy theorists. Seralini, who agreed to join us via Skype, was the best the anti-biotech campaigners had to offer.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To counter Seralini, I originally recruited Anastasia Bodnar, a biotechnologist with a degree in sustainable agriculture who previously was a President’s Management Fellow and worked at the National Institutes of Health. Most notably she is co-director of the non-profit Biology Fortified a site popular among young sustainability focused scientists, geneticists and food experts.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, because of a work conflict, she had to pull out. On short notice, I recruited a more than capable replacement in Kevin Folta, Interim Chair of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida. He’s published two seminal texts on genomics and dozens of articles, and actively engages biotech issues in public. Like Bodnar, he is one of an emerging group of post-ideological scientists who understand the constructive potential of biotechnology.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith pulls out; Seralini follows</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The debate began to unravel just two weeks before the scheduled event. Smith objected to the unexpected substitution of Folta, who is an active online presence, engaging and debating campaigners and carefully laying out counter, science-based arguments. Smith immediately balked at the substitution. According to Smith, Folta had “crossed the line” in some criticisms of him, although he didn’t provide any examples. His nerves clearly jangled, Smith ultimately decided he was not comfortable with Folta, and said he would not debate. He then said he had too many commitments, and could not prepare for the event even if he had wanted to. He then promptly flew off to Denver to address a relative handful of fellow anti-Monsanto conspiracy theory protesters missing out on the opportunity to talk with tens of thousands of people through this Internet streamed debate.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seralini’s withdraw was equally messy. After Smith’s decision, he suddenly decided that my previously published criticisms of his studies were “libelous” and that he would never be involved in a debate with me. In fact, I had posted a number of articles inForbes about the Seralini Affair seven months ago; he was well aware of those, as he had reference them in communications in the weeks prior to his pullout.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why the sudden turnaround? Seralini sent a torrent of bizarre notes, saying he would not debate Folta because he was not a toxicologist and only a toxicologist would fairly review his work. Folta, of course, is a prominent plant geneticist who reviews and edits scholarly work across disciplines.   The Great Debate was never going to focus entirely on Seralini’s controversial study; it was about the future of food and the farm. But the hubristic French scientist apparently had been expecting to turn the debate into the Eric Seralini Show; when he finally realized he’d have to debate science—and the broad issues of biotechnology and world food security—he panicked and withdrew.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s only a guess, but I believe Folta scared the bejeebers out of him. Folta is a dogged defender of science, with a nuanced understanding of the benefits and the challenges that accompany this powerful but complicated technology. He’s not afraid to go on the web or into public hornet’s nests to make the case for science.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Folta and I, with CATO’s support, are committed to going on with the public event. We will present both sides of the issue—in fact we will go out of our way, for the sake of a vigorous public discussion, to “make the case against biotech crops.” This is a debate worth having. We may yet also add a third presentert. Stay tuned for updates Please do check out the event on Tuesday, June 4, 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern Time. It will be streamed live on CATO’s site as well as on the Genetic Literacy Project.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To protect profits threatened by a lawsuit over its controversial herbicide <b>atrazine,</b> the GM seed and chemical company Syngenta launched an aggressive multi-million dollar campaign that included hiring a detective agency to investigate scientists on a federal advisory panel, looking into the personal life of a judge and commissioning a psychological profile of a leading scientist critical of atrazine. The Switzerland-based pesticide manufacturer also routinely paid “third-party allies” to appear to be independent supporters, and kept a list of 130 people and groups it could recruit as experts without disclosing ties to the company. At the same time, the company provided strict parameters for what these experts would say.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/atrazine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atrazine is a highly toxic pesticide that easily contaminates groundwater and is a reproductive toxin, causing frogs to develop both male and female sexual characteristics. It's banned in the EU, though still used in the United States.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta's "Supportive Third Party Stakeholders Database" of people the company believed it could call upon to promote atrazine, has been published on the Internet by investigative reporter Clare Howard.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/716045-100reporters-syngenta-clare-howard-investigation.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The organisations and individuals listed will be familiar to followers of the GM debate. They include:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmentalist-turned-corporate-spokesperson Patrick Moore</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vivian Moses of CropGen</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GM promoter for the US government, Nina Fedoroff</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Beachy, founding president of the Monsanto-sponsored Danforth Plant Science Centre, where environmentalist-turned-GM-promoter Mark Lynas was recently an invited speaker</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Gibo of the University of Toronto, listed in the database as a "monarch specialist". Gibo was an "expert" of choice who was quoted to criticise and neutralise the Losey study, which showed that Bt crop pollen was lethal to monarch butterflies: http://www.gene.ch/genet/1999/May/msg00083.html</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta also believes it has "supportive third party stakeholders" in:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two main US regulatory agencies: the US Food and Drug Administration (Monica Revelle); and the USDA (four experts).</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Learned scientific societies, including the American Dietetic Association, the Society of Toxicology, and the Society for In Vitro Biology.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Soybean Association, which lobbies for GM crops.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for Science in the Public Interest</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Quack"-hunting and anti-environmental regulation organisations Quack Watch, the National Council Against Health Fraud, and Michael Fumento's Myth Busters.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*The public research institute CSIRO.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also among Syngenta's third party supporters is the president of the Cato Institute. This was the institution that recently planned to host a "debate" on GMOs. Speakers against GM were planned to be Prof Gilles-Eric Seralini, whose study found that GM maize and Roundup at very low doses caused organ damage, tumours and premature death in rats over the long term, and author/broadcaster Jeffrey Smith.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seralini and Smith were to be pitched against Jon Entine -- a fellow of the pro-corporate think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and critic of the precautionary principle, who would share the platform with a second pro-GM speaker.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seralini and Smith withdrew from the debate, leading to much gloating from Entine.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://onforb.es/16hamxt</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, in spite of Entine's claim to want to "present both sides of the issue" (http://onforb.es/16hamxt) in the debate, his history suggests that the last thing he is interested in is a balanced discussion.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Entine was a vociferous critic of Seralini's GMO and Roundup study. He published several attack pieces on Seralini -- probably more than any single author.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/science/item/164-smelling-a-corporate-rat</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These articles are dishonest in the extreme. For example, Entine described Seralini's findings as "anomalous" even though Seralini's was the only long-term toxicity study ever carried out on this particular GM maize and the herbicide it is grown with. It's hard not to produce "anomalous" findings if there is only one experiment!</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2013/05/29/anti-gmo-scientist-gilles-eric-seralini-activist-jeffrey-smith-withdraw-from-food-biotech-debate/</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has reportedly also been working to discredit Seralini on Wikipedia. We were alerted by Wikipedia users to the fact that Entine was one of the early editors on a one-sided and originally potentially libellous Wikipedia article called "The Seralini affair", which denigrated Seralini's study and Seralini himself.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine, under the Wiki user name "runjonrun", was active in vandalising the article by rapidly deleting balancing information, for example, about the scientific support for Seralini's study and the conflicts of interest among critics of the study.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S%C3%A9ralini_affair&offset=&limit=500&action=history</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a previous Wiki spat, "runjonrun" had revealed his true identity as Jon Entine after upsetting other Wiki users by allegedly contravening Wiki conflict of interest guidelines and vandalising articles without justification:</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Runjonrun</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGOWatch&diff=292041817&oldid=251632062</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine's defence of the toxic products of corporations didn't begin with GMOs, however. Documents revealed in the atrazine lawsuit revealed that Entine was one of the "third party outreach" people that Syngenta's PR contractor, the White House Writers Group, was in communication with over a pesticides conference that the AEI hosted.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/c/c2/Syn_email_WHWG_Roundup_memo.pdf</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine authored a book which was published and promoted by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), one of the organisations on Syngenta's list of supportive third party stakeholders. Entine's book, called 'Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health', defended industrial and agricultural chemical use. The book included two case studies, one of them on atrazine. Syngenta has funded the ACSH.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/02/atrazine-syngengta-tyrone-hayes-jon-entine</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Entine has also worked with Jay Byrne's PR firm v-Fluence, which was set up by former Monsanto executives.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/science/item/164-smelling-a-corporate-rat</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clearly what passes for scientific debate is often nothing of the sort. It's corporate interests trying to defend their toxic products against the findings of honest scientists.</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GMWATCH.ORG|BY CLAIRE</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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