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Paul D. Thacker
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If you ever worried that science was being warped by corporate interests, this backpedal by AAAS in giving an award to pesticide researcher should lay that to rest.

Answer seems to be "yes."

@dannyhakim @EricLiptonNYT @lizabio @cgseife @sfoucart @JeanneLenzer1 @mara
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@dannyhakim @EricLiptonNYT @lizabio @cgseife @sfoucart @JeanneLenzer1 @mara @fastlerner Nina Federoff is the former President of AAAS. She is now an advisor to a law firm that lobbies for the agrochemical industry and a critic of #GMO reporting "Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media—and Discourages Criticism" progressive.org/magazine/how-t…
@dannyhakim @EricLiptonNYT @lizabio @cgseife @sfoucart @JeanneLenzer1 @mara @fastlerner Nina Federoff also appeared at the release of the "junk science" book by the American Council on Science and Health, a front group for the chemical industry and #Monsanto acsh.org/news/2017/06/2…
@dannyhakim @EricLiptonNYT @lizabio @cgseife @sfoucart @JeanneLenzer1 @mara @fastlerner When Ketchum PR, which runs #GMO Answers, held a one day symposium at the National Press Club, Nina Federoff was one of their chosen speakers. "Monsanto’s Media Machine Comes To Washington" huffingtonpost.com/entry/monsanto…
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1/6 Emails shows #Monsanto orchestrated a behind the scenes retraction of Seralini's paper on #GMOs.

David Saltimiras w/ #Monsanto started "the last rites of Seralini" with an email to Sir Colin Berry.

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@NaomiOreskes @sejorg @TimothyAWise @industrydocs @sfoucart @fastlerner 2/6 The campaign to get the paper retracted ran for months. Saltimiras then writes his #Monsanto colleagues that the journal editor can't do anything w/ blog and web postings and needs "formal letters to the Editor."

Guess what Monsanto did? Wild guess....
@NaomiOreskes @sejorg @TimothyAWise @industrydocs @sfoucart @fastlerner 3/6 BTW, let's pause for a moment to see how the "science media" covered this retraction.

Story at NBC news gives you a taste of the pile on against Seralini w/o any mention that this was a corporate orchestrated hit on a scientist. nbcnews.com/science/journa…
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