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Monsanto Employee Admits an Entire Department Exists to Discredit Scientists
Published: May 28, 2015
Christina Sarich, Natural Society
Dare to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits that there is an entire department within the corporation with the simple task of discrediting and debunking scientists who speak out against GMOs.
The WHO recently classified glyphosate, a chemical in Monsantos best-selling herbicide Roundup, as carcinogenic news that is really heating things up with biotech. So Monsanto has been demanding that the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) retract their statements about the poisonss toxicity to human health.
The company demands this even though a peer-reviewed study published in March of 2015 in the respected journal, The Lancet Oncology, conducted a analysis proving that glyphosate was indeed probably carcinogenic.
Monsantos vice president of global regulatory affairs Philip Miller told Reuters the following in interview:
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We question the quality of the assessment. The WHO has something to explain.[/font]
It has already been explained, Mr. Miller. The study states:
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Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide, currently with the highest production volumes of all herbicides. It is used in more than 750 different products for agriculture, forestry, urban, and home applications. Its use has increased sharply with the development of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant crop varieties. Glyphosate has been detected in air during spraying, in water, and in food. There WAS limited evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of glyphosate.
Glyphosate has been detected in the blood and urine of agricultural workers, indicating absorption. Soil microbes degrade glyphosate to aminomethylphosphoric acid (AMPA). Blood AMPA detection after poisonings suggests intestinal microbial metabolism in humans. Glyphosate and glyphosate formulations induced DNA and chromosomal damage in mammals, and in human and animal cells in vitro. One study reported increases in blood markers of chromosomal damage (micronuclei) in residents of several communities after spraying of glyphosate formulations. [/font]
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villager
(26,001 posts)For whom "science" means "only a pro-Monsanto conclusion is acceptable?"
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)All you have to do is post anything about GMOs..and poof! They appear.
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
think
(11,641 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)PatrickforO
(14,608 posts)you dislike and mistrust Monsanto!
Seriously, companies like Monsanto aren't the only ones who have internal or pay external 'merchants of doubt' to discredit real science.
I mean, think about it. A few years ago we had to be careful when talking about climate change, because our listener might not 'believe' in it. Now, people seem to be coming around, and there is LOTS of popular resentment against these corporations that are increasing profits at our expense as workers, as consumers and as citizens of this planet.
We simply cannot allow the neoliberal capitalists to destroy our earth just to turn a short term profit.
It's gotta stop.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Ronnie the Raygun was their Better Living Thru Chemistry mouth piece. Well,had a Chem TA that used to write bullshit articles for GE and the joke was do you really believe this crap. Answer,nope,but it helps pay for my Masters.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Monsanto OWNS the USDA and the FDA.
See: MIchael Taylor...Presidential appoint to run the FDA
SEE" Tom Vilsack...former Iowa governor...Appointed to OBama's cabinet in 2008...BIG fan of monoculture, factory pigs, and Monsanto corn.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,041 posts)As a scientist, I find this disgusting practice by Monsanto - but I am not at all surprised.
DeeDeeNY
(3,357 posts)This is truly frightening
MisterP
(23,730 posts)http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising
bbbbut they just want people to RESPECT science like in the 40s and 60s! before 'Nam! but still after Trinity!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)They're working both sides of the process.
Monsanto Is Funding a Free 'Reporting Boot Camp' for Food Writers
http://www.eater.com/2015/5/22/8640973/national-press-foundation-npf-monsanto-food-journalism-boot-camp
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Mounting a conference sponsored by a highly polarizing company with an aggressive PR agenda might not appear to be the most logical course of action for a journalism nonprofit. Not all of NPF's programming involves sponsorship from related companies, but this isn't the first time the organization has chosen to get in bed with ethically squicky sponsors: in 2010, the organization came under fire for taking money from pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer to underwrite a multi-day conference training journalists to write about cancer, and an upcoming NPF reporting conference on retirement is sponsored by Prudential, a company that sells retirement-related financial products like life insurance and pension investments.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Check. Check.
I think most us can spot them.