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May 3 10 tweets 7 min read
Monsanto’s Ghostwriting to Influence Science and Media disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/monsantos-gh…
While most ghostwriting scandals in science involve physicians, #Monsanto ran a unique and sophisticated campaign to promote GMO technology and attack critics /1 Image
When the World Health Organisation was going to find the herbicide #glyphosate linked to cancer, #Monsanto started a ghostwriting campaign to counter.

Monsanto's William Heydens “Manuscript to be initiated by [Monsanto] as ghost writers." /2 Image
Documents uncovering this corruption became available through Freedom of Information FOIA and litigation, and were later publicised.
Thanks: @baumhedlund @USRightToKnow @garyruskin @careygillam @industrydocs @GMWatch @EXPOSEDbyCMD /3
Monsanto published many of their ghostwritten studies in Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology, and in Critical Reviews in Toxicology. @drdavidmichaels has referred to this publications as "corporate vanity journals." disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/monsantos-gh… /4
The society that publishes Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology used to hold their meetings in the offices of Keller and Heckman, the law firm for tobacco and chemical companies.

This journal has also published studies denying the dangers of fossil fuel combustion. /5 Image
Media promote ghostwritten studies: In one example, Monsanto gave Politico's @MarksSimon access to documents for a story alleging the WHO left out a critical study by Greim on glyphosate. In reality, Monsanto fooled Politico and ghostwrote the Greim study. /6
The Greim study was later promoted by two Monsanto front groups: Genetic Literacy Project, and the American Council on Science and Health. (Both groups were later exposed for #Monsanto funding) /7 Image
Monsanto also found a kind messenger in Kavin Senapathy. She has moved on to promote #GMO messaging in #scicomm media outlets such as @undarkmag disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/monsantos-gh… /8
Monsanto had a very layered approach to front groups and Senapathy is a member of both Biofortified and a former writer for the Genetic Literacy Project.

Monsanto's strategy against the WHO lists both as allies. /9 Image
Many of the documents referenced in this piece are now archived at @industrydocs

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