House committee to grill NIH over financial support for UN IARC agency accused of science bias

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is beingย calledย … to explain why it gave tens of millions of dollars to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a United Nations agency that has been accused of โ€œquackeryโ€ and โ€œcherry pickingโ€ its facts.

The NIH agreed to appear before Rep.ย Jason Chaffetzโ€™s House Oversight Committee โ€” but only on the condition that the hearing is closed-press and off-limits to the public…

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Congress simply wants the NIH to explain its support and staff involvement with an agency that has been widely criticized for its shoddy science and plagued by questions of bias…

Because of the IARCโ€™s flawed assessment …ย glyphosateโ€™s re-approval is now threatened in Europe, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has delayed what should have been an easy re-approval. Losing glyphosate would be aย massive blowย to American farmers, consumers and the agricultural economy.

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Read full, original post:ย NIH needs public examination after giving millions to rogue UN agency

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