Environment & Energy

Judi Lynn

(160,601 posts) Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:14 PM Jun 2015

Monsanto Employee Admits an Entire Department Exists to “Discredit” Scientists

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 Monsanto’s 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 poisons’s 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.’

Monsanto’s 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]

More:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Monsanto_Employee_Admits_an_Entire_Department_Exists_to_Ã¢Â€ÂœDiscreditÃ¢Â€Â_Scientists/44195/0/38/38/Y/M.html

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Monsanto Employee Admits an Entire Department Exists to “Discredit” Scientists (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2015 OP

Do they talk about their online posting brigade? villager Jun 2015 #1

I seem to have spotted some of that brigade here. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #8

Ready to defend the unquestioned corporate line hook and sinker... villager Jun 2015 #9

The link to the source is broken. I used Google URL shortener URL to make a different one: think Jun 2015 #2

I didn't double check that link, very embarrassing. Thank you, so much for making it work. n/t Judi Lynn Jun 2015 #4

Geez, Judi, if I didn't know you better, I'd think PatrickforO Jun 2015 #3

Remember GE in the 50's and 60's, Wellstone ruled Jun 2015 #5

There are more Monsanto in our government than at the Home Office. bvar22 Jun 2015 #6

Wait...I hear footsteps. they are coming! NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #7

K & R DeeDeeNY Jun 2015 #10

I think there's so many "dirty-cop scientists" we oughtta rename dirty cops "ACSH cops" MisterP Jun 2015 #11

This cannot be true! Enthusiast Jun 2015 #12

The Great Monsatan! L0oniX Jun 2015 #13

Plus Monsanto co-sponsors all-expenses-paid "boot camps" for reporters RufusTFirefly Jun 2015 #14

1) Does Monsanto have a big marketing budget? 2) Does Monsanto know about the internet? GoneFishin Jun 2015 #15

villager

(26,001 posts)

1. Do they talk about their online posting brigade?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:15 PM

Jun 2015

For whom "science" means "only a pro-Monsanto conclusion is acceptable?"

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

8. I seem to have spotted some of that brigade here.

Reply to villager (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:11 PM

Jun 2015

All you have to do is post anything about GMOs..and poof! They appear.

villager

(26,001 posts)

9. Ready to defend the unquestioned corporate line hook and sinker...

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #8)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:20 PM

Jun 2015

n/t

think

(11,641 posts)

2. The link to the source is broken. I used Google URL shortener URL to make a different one:

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:20 PM

Jun 2015

http://goo.gl/pk0Bku

Judi Lynn

(160,601 posts)

4. I didn't double check that link, very embarrassing. Thank you, so much for making it work. n/t

Reply to think (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:37 PM

Jun 2015

PatrickforO

(14,586 posts)

3. Geez, Judi, if I didn't know you better, I'd think

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:31 PM

Jun 2015

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)

5. Remember GE in the 50's and 60's,

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:47 PM

Jun 2015

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)

6. There are more Monsanto in our government than at the Home Office.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:57 PM

Jun 2015

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

(60,018 posts)

7. Wait...I hear footsteps. they are coming!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:01 PM

Jun 2015

As a scientist, I find this disgusting practice by Monsanto - but I am not at all surprised.

DeeDeeNY

(3,356 posts)

10. K & R

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:23 PM

Jun 2015

This is truly frightening

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

11. I think there's so many "dirty-cop scientists" we oughtta rename dirty cops "ACSH cops"

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:32 PM

Jun 2015

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health
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)

12. This cannot be true!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:34 PM

Jun 2015

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)

13. The Great Monsatan!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:11 PM

Jun 2015

RufusTFirefly

(8,812 posts)

14. Plus Monsanto co-sponsors all-expenses-paid "boot camps" for reporters

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:32 PM

Jun 2015

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

The Washington, DC-based National Press Foundation announced yesterday that they're taking applications for an upcoming all-expenses-paid journalism conference called "Food, From Farm to Table." The conference promises to "take a holistic look at the issues: hunger, food waste, organic, GMOs, food science, feeding the world’s growing population, and more." That's cool, if you don't mind that one of its major sponsors is Monsanto, that the program includes a visit to the controversial agrobiotech company's research labs, or that this sounds a whole lot more like a press junket than a journalism conference.

...

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)

15. 1) Does Monsanto have a big marketing budget? 2) Does Monsanto know about the internet?