over the benevolent, benign Monsanto corporation? Glyphosate can't be carcinogenic. Monsanto would never expose us to a carcinogenic. You people just don't recognize the inherent goodness of corporations.

You anti-vaxxer, woo-woo losers are just too stooopid to understand science.

the key quote is a bit "off" to me:

so i can certainly see referring to the Company as theirs. I think you're reading into that too much...

Where does the quotation end, after "department" or after "theirs"?

indicate that does not work at DU: the brackets and the bracketing language would simply all just disappear.

My guess is that the direct quote closes after department and opens again after the parenthetical ends, but the "open" quote marks are missing.

Did that prevent you from understanding the intent?

DU didn't strip anything, the author/editor made a mess of the most critical lines of the whole piece. Which means I won't use a reference to it as evidence. Too easy to pick apart.

I probably should just have omitted my comment about brackets because I did not mean to suggest DU had stripped anything. I meant only that brackets are the normal way of showing something is not part of a direct quote, but using the normal way doesn't work at DU.

I didn't get that - thanks for clarifying

I'd take those things into consideration before discrediting the story.

"Theirs" could be his way of referring back the members of the department, even if, technically, the correct pronoun in that event would have been "its," since he used "department" not "members."

Not saying the story is gospel, either. Just saying I would not throw it out on the basis of whether he perfectly match his pronoun to a noun while giving a speech.

The original source for this story appears to be Stephanie Hamilton at Kos. The piece in the OP for the thread by Christina Sarich plagiar... er, quoted heavily without attribution from Hamilton, and added some errors in the process. In the original it is clear that the person who attended the talk is Hamilton (with the location/date not given beyond "recently&quot and Hamilton wrote

If you think there was an actual problem, though, you may want to add that info to the OP?

However, notice that there is still the "department" (singular noun) and "theirs" (plural pronoun) issue the other poster raised.

"I love Big Brother." Winston Smith, 1984.

to find that gambling is going on in here!

Seriously, is this a surprise? Monsanto is Evil.

But, yes, it probably is a surprise to some people. Some people took the word of studies done or commissioned by the tobacco industry, too.

Americans, including me, are a lot more naive than I used to think.

I wonder how much do they pay the pro GMO shills who troll the boards. Probably a substantial amount as well.

The original source for this story appears to be Stephanie Hamilton at Kos. In it appears a clearer version of the "money" quote, that makes it clearer both who heard this statement as well as how little of it was a direct quotation.

"The WHO has something to explain."

"Likely, this is the first time a Monsanto employee has publicly admitted that they have immense political and financial weight to bear on scientists who dare to publish against them. Of course they don't list this discrediting department anywhere on their website.

The company will stop at nothing to discredit and devalue the contributions of unimpeachably respected Lancet and the international scientific bodies of WHO and IARC, among others.

The stakes are high – after all, an entire industry of GMO seed (for which they currently hold more than a three-fourths monopoly share) is based on being Roundup ready. Glyphosate is their hallmark product, and it accounts for billions in sales when you account for the seed they sell to go with their best-selling herbicide.



https://www.facebook.com/Save.Hawai.from.Monsanto

But, yeah.. "Yay Big Corp Poisons for Profit Big Ag "

it's just that some scientists come out with the wrong answers!

and repeat talking points over, and over, and over, and over. Oh yeah, and over and over.