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The Puppetmasters of Academia (or What the NY Times Left out)

September 8, 2015
Food Industry Enlisted Academics

by Jonathan Latham, PhD “Reading the emails make(s) me want to throw up” tweeted the Food Babe after reading a lengthy series of them posted online by the NY Times on Sept 5th. The emails …

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Commentaries, Environment, Science Media

Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation

May 12, 2015
White Cloud Mountains, Idaho, George Wuerthner

By George Wuerthner A growing debate has serious consequences for our collective relationship to Nature. Beginning perhaps twenty years ago, a number of academics in disciplines such as history, anthropology, and geography, began to question …

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Environment, News, Science Media

What Happened to Obama’s Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity?

April 20, 2015
US EPA, Washington DC

By Jonathan Latham, PhD Pretty much every branch of the US government has had trouble implementing President Obama’s flagship scientific integrity policy. In 2011, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) appointed the scientist Dr. …

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Commentaries, Science Media

Edward Snowden’s Testimony to the European Parliament on NSA Spying and its Consequences

March 11, 2014
Edward Snowden Barton Gellman/Getty Images

Independent Science News has decided to reprint (1) in full the March 7th testimony of Edward Snowden to the European Parliament. Snowden’s testimony is vitally important for every citizen in every country to understand, yet it …

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Biotechnology, Commentaries, Science Media

Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism

January 7, 2014

by Jonathan Latham, PhD Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. Such journalism is, most …

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