How the ghouls of Monsanto influenced science and the media -
Monsanto ran a sophisticated ghostwriting campaign to defend glyphosate and attack its critics
Last week, the award-winning investigative journalist Paul Thacker gave a presentation at Carleton University on Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence both science and media, detailing Monsanto’s ghostwriting campaign which kicked off in 2015 to attack the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, after it found glyphosate was a “probable carcinogen.” Thacker followed this up by publishing an article on his talk at The DisInformation Chronicle. Below is a condensed version of that piece.
Monsanto ghostwrote research and essays to promote the safety of the pesticide glyphosate and to attack the World Health Organization. Monsanto front groups then published these essays and the studies ran in journals that have argued tobacco, asbestos, and fossil fuels are safe.
Even before the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found glyphosate to be dangerous, internal emails show that Monsanto scientists began discussing how to undermine the findings. “[W]e would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak,” wrote Monsanto's chief of regulatory science, William Heydens. “Recall that is how we handled Williams Kroes & Munro, 2000.” The Williams, Kroes and Munro 2000 paper appeared in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (RTP) and concluded, “Roundup herbicide does not pose a health risk to humans.”
A year after Monsanto began plotting their 2015 attack on IARC, the journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology (CRT) published a special issue titled “An Independent Review of the Carcinogenic Potential of Glyphosate.” But emails show Monsanto directed and edited the studies…
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopol...the-media/
https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20021
Monsanto ran a sophisticated ghostwriting campaign to defend glyphosate and attack its critics
Last week, the award-winning investigative journalist Paul Thacker gave a presentation at Carleton University on Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence both science and media, detailing Monsanto’s ghostwriting campaign which kicked off in 2015 to attack the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, after it found glyphosate was a “probable carcinogen.” Thacker followed this up by publishing an article on his talk at The DisInformation Chronicle. Below is a condensed version of that piece.
Monsanto ghostwrote research and essays to promote the safety of the pesticide glyphosate and to attack the World Health Organization. Monsanto front groups then published these essays and the studies ran in journals that have argued tobacco, asbestos, and fossil fuels are safe.
Even before the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found glyphosate to be dangerous, internal emails show that Monsanto scientists began discussing how to undermine the findings. “[W]e would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak,” wrote Monsanto's chief of regulatory science, William Heydens. “Recall that is how we handled Williams Kroes & Munro, 2000.” The Williams, Kroes and Munro 2000 paper appeared in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (RTP) and concluded, “Roundup herbicide does not pose a health risk to humans.”
A year after Monsanto began plotting their 2015 attack on IARC, the journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology (CRT) published a special issue titled “An Independent Review of the Carcinogenic Potential of Glyphosate.” But emails show Monsanto directed and edited the studies…
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopol...the-media/
https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20021