Two weeks ago, we reported on a bizarre decision by the online news arm of the journal Science: The outlet had reprinted an article from a politically slanted environmentalist website that hyped concern over a particular chemical. The article fell quite short of the high standards we associate with the journal.
Now, Live Science has done something similar, but it’s far worse. Normally a reliable source of information (and an outlet with which ACSH has a reprinting agreement), Live Science published an article that is a dream for anti-pesticide and anti-chemical fearmongers.
The article, written by Christopher Pala, begins with an ominous warning that is far more suitable for the pages of an H.P. Lovecraft story than a science article:
On a former sugar plantation on the dry southeast coast of Kauai, Hawaii, far from the tourist beaches, agrochemical companies are testing a secret cocktail of toxic pesticides on genetically modified corn.
Good grief. Was the “secret cocktail” being sprayed from black helicopters? And why, exactly, is it a problem for chemical companies to conduct field trials with their products? Isn’t that what we want them to do before they sell them on the market?
Read full, original article: Glyphosate And Pesticides: Et Tu, Live Science?
