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Experts Blast David Robert Grimes for His Failure to Understand Science and Love of Self-Citation disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/experts-blas…
While claiming to debunk conspiracies and speak for science, Grimes ignores published research and channels corporate PR. (Grimes in an ad for Vodafone.) /1

Researchers in toxicology & epidemiology are crying foul and calling for retraction of a recent Grimes essay in JAMA Oncology that dismissed scientific & government evidence of harm from radio frequency radiation.
disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/experts-blas… /2

“I’m surprised a journal published this,” said Ron Melnick, who spent 3 decades at the National Toxicology Program. “It’s not a review. It’s an op-ed. To be less generous, it’s an advertisement.” /3

In reality, David Robert Grimes did an advertisement for Vodafone in 2020, where he downplayed any ill health effects from 5G. But in a recent review of the scientific literature, researchers found “no human experimental studies” on 5G and urged research in this area. /4

Chris Portier, who ran toxicology programs at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences & the NTP said Grimes does a very poor job of actually reviewing the evidence, because he cherry picks information. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/experts-blas… /5

Much of Grimes' essay reads like disinformation we've seen in the past from tobacco, asbestos, climate change and pesticides. In fact, Grimes helped carry a #Monsanto message that #glyphosate was safe. @USRightToKnow @JodiKoberinski @GMOFreeUSA /6

A horde of respected scientists have begun documenting the assault on IARC by apologists for the agrichemical industry such as Grimes. For example, see here in Environmental Health Perspectives: ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/eh… /END