Previously, it was reported that 14 Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) requests had been filed seeking the correspondence of academic scientists and professors who were actively involved in outreach and public education about genetically engineered crops.
A second wave of FoIA requests seeks information about the totality of published academic research on genetically engineered (GMO) crops. The requests are exhaustive, covering all of the background research, grant proposals, experimental design and data, and results and conclusions of nearly 2,000 studies that have been conducted on GMOs. The total number of FoIAs filed is still being determined, but sources have confirmed that they were filed by the U.S. Right Two Know (USR2K) organization, a nonprofit funded by the cattle manure-based fertilizer industry.
In an interview, the director of USR2K Vary Flusterin explained their motivation. “We’re interested to understand the dynamics of how scientific hypotheses are formed, experiments are designed, and results are collected, analyzed, interpreted and published.” He added, “The scientists keep saying that the scientific literature demonstrates that there is a consensus about the safety of GMOs, but I can’t understand how all these data points add up. It’s time to go back to school.”
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Professor Kævin Momsauron at the University of Barad-Durida called it invasive and unnecessary. “We teach about how science works in our introductory shill classes. First you start with your conclusion, and after you find a corporation that is willing to pay you oodles of money, you publish your conclusions and then scrape some data off your shoe that you can make into graphs to support your conclusion. I offered to help Vary understand the scientific process but he keeps talking about multiple testing corrections and randomized, blinded controls. He’s totally lost!”
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