Good lord! The @guardian is printing propaganda piece by anti-science activist @careygillam (whose work is funded by anti-vaccine/organic lobby group) as if it was real news... This is the sort of crap that gives liberal media a bad name. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/a… @guardianeco
Here's where Carey Gillam gets her money - USRTK, which is mostly funded by Organic Consumers Association. OCA was the body that spread the anti-vaccine scare in the US last year among target minority communities. marklynas.org/2016/08/anti-g…
Here's details of Carey's main donor at USRTK: usrtk.org/donors/ OCA has pumped in $500,000 so far into the anti-GMO campaign, mainly aiming to target public sector scientists with bullying FoIA requests to try to silence them.
Here's just one of OCA's anti-vaccine pieces - there are many: organicconsumers.org/news/lead-deve… Tries to scare girls into not vaccinating for HPV, raising their later risk of cervical cancer.
So, @guardian - if you want to be taken seriously by people who care about science, please do some due diligence. Even if a piece pushes your anti-industry buttons and contains the word Monsanto, doesn't mean it isn't just scaremongering garbage.
I really appreciate the @guardian in so many ways - but please please don't become a kind of Fox News for lefties... truth matters, and should not be sacrificed for political tribal loyalties.
This is now being reported as fact in other media: nypost.com/2018/04/30/pes… It's a kind of laundering process where activist propaganda becomes 'news' by virtue of being published somewhere reputable.
