Knight Science Journalism’s Paul Raeburn has weighed in on the increasingly sordid Mike Adams fiasco.
He writes: An anti-GMO activist has compared some science journalists and publications to the Nazis, saying they are “Monsanto collaborators who have signed on to accelerate heinous crimes being committed against humanity under the false promise of ‘feeding the world’ with toxic GMOs.”
Inย the post on hisย Natural Newsย blog,ย Mike Adamsย also writes that ” it is the moral right โย and even the obligation โย of human beings everywhere to actively plan and carry out the killing of those engaged in heinous crimes against humanity.”
It is not known whether Adams is behind a separate website that appeared calledย Monsanto Collaborators, which listed more than a dozen science writers as collaborators, includingย Keith Kloor,ย Jon Entine,ย Brooke Borel, and others. It also listedย Discover,ย National Geographic, MIT’sย Technology Review, andย Forbes.com, among others, as “publisher collaborators.”
NOTE: The GLP has been able to confirm that Adams is indeed the mastermind and financier behind the Monsanto Collaborator’s website. The story has now taken an even more bizarre twist, as Adams, facing multiple investigations from law enforcement officials, including the FBI, is now trying to make it appear that not only did he not oversee the project, but that it was a set up by Monsanto in a twisted plot to discredit anti-GMO critics.
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This is Adams’ย latest, twisted postย on NaturalNews:
UPDATE 2: After careful analysis, I have come to the conclusion that the Monsanto Collaborators website is a bait-and-switch trap engineered by the biotech industry in an effort to lure in support from GMO skeptics and then discredit them with some sort of insane “call to action” of some kind.ย Click here to see the evidence and reasoning on this. Because of this, I am recommending that members of the GMO skeptics communityย refrain from linking to or endorsing the Monsanto Collaborators website.
Additionally, immediately upon publication of this article, the usual GMO corporate shills immediately began to spread utterly false and defamatory information about what this article actually stated, inventing false quotes and intentionally citing sentences out of context. We expect nothing less than lies and fabrications from the GMO crowd, of course, but they have taken it to a whole new level in their attempts to silence this powerful story that tells the truth about the agricultural holocaust that has already killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
I have always stated in this story, as you can see below: “For the record, in no way do I condone vigilante violence against anyone, and I believe every condemned criminal deserves a fair trial and a punishment that fits the crime. Do not misinterpret this article as any sort of call for violence, as I wholly disavow any such actions. I am a person who demands due process under the law for all those accused of crimes.”
Adds Raebun: Kloor has been most responsible for calling attention to Adams, reporting in May on his Discover blogย Collide-a-Scapeย that Adams appeared as a guest onย The Dr. Oz Show on May 13.Kloor also reported in that post that Adams had threatened Jon Entine, who wroteย a profile of Adamsย headlined, in part, “Most ‘dangerous’ anti-science GMO critic?”, which appeared on the website ofย The Genetic Literacy Projectย and was cross-posted toย Forbes, where Entine is a contributor. Entine says Adams threatened him and Forbes with legal action over what Adams said were inaccuracies in the profile.
NOTE: Mother Jones reported on this story as well although it providesย no response to his allegations. Further, at the bottom of the page carrying the article it goes on to note, if you like this story you might also be interested in:ย Monsanto GM Soy Is Scarier Than You Thinkโฆ 5 Ways Monsanto Wants to Profit Off Climate Changeโฆ and other reports attacking Monsanto. One has to wonder whether Mother Jones is part of the problem that encourages the Mike Adamses of the world?ย A more responsive and responsible reaction from the progressive community can be found in this post in Forward Progressive by Manny Shewitz.
Read the full, original article:ย Are these science writers and publications facing death threats for covering GMOs?
