![]() ![]() “I was approached by the manufacturer and asked to study the effects of atrazine, the herbicide, on frogs. According to Scientific American, “In a number of cases, experiments that had the implicit go-ahead from the seed company were later blocked from publication because the results were not flattering.” For example, University of California, Berkeley Professor Tyrone Hayes explains: Similar things appear to have happened in the agrichemical industry. We have already discussed how industry can suppress adverse studies and findings, with some examples from the pharmaceutical industry. Rather, this is merely an effort to sketch the tactics that have been employed by the agrichemical industry. It is outside the scope of this report to recount all of instances in which these tactics have been used. What follows is a discussion of a few ways that science can be swayed, bought or biased by the agrichemical industry. That appears especially true for the agrichemical industry. ![]() But in the aggregate, they can have a powerful effect on what is known and what is not known. Powerful corporations can procure it in many ways, some subtle, some not. ![]() It is presumed by many that science proceeds like an arrow straight towards the discovery of truth, without bending due to any economic forces that may bear upon it. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 12, “ Seedy Business: What Big Food is hiding with its slick PR campaign on GMOs,” by Gary Ruskin, co-director of the public watchdog group US Right to Know. ![]()
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