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GLP podcast/video: ‘Paraquat Papers’ — Latest pesticide scandal wrongly links weedkiller to Parkinson’s

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Thousands of pending lawsuits allege that the weedkiller paraquat causes Parkinson's Disease (PD), a connection its manufacturer tried to hide ...
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Remember the questionable study claiming glyphosate boosts cancer risk 41%? Lead author reasserts her claim, EPA refutes it, and we take a second look

Geoffrey Kabat | 
Sheppard and her co-authors are intent on favoring data that appears to support the existence of a risk from glyphosate ...
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Anti-glyphosate activist Carey Gillam ‘collaborated’ with attorney charged in extortion plot

Alex Berezow | 
In a press release, the [Department of Justice] said that one of the lead plaintiffs' attorneys, Timothy Litzenburg, who helped ...
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Podcast: Meet Mary Mangan—the biologist who crashes anti-GMO events and debunks junk science on Twitter

Cameron English, Mary Mangan | 
Mangan discusses her unique approach to spreading science literacy ...
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Time Magazine’s coverage of glyphosate-cancer trial is ‘crying out for balance,’ biologist says

Grant Jacobs | 
TIME magazine has a story on DeWayne ‘Lee’ Johnston who took Monsanto to court claiming RoundUp caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma ...
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Viewpoint: Challenging the hypocrisy of GMO critic Carey Gillam

Carey Gillam is a former journalist for Reuters, and is currently the research director for US Right to Know (US ...
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Viewpoint: How anti-GMO activist-journalist Carey Gillam primes the glyphosate litigation pump

Geoffrey Kabat | 
The Guardian published an article by Sam Levin and Carey Gillam [on October 7] about the “new era of cancer lawsuits ...
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Ex-Reuters reporter Carey Gillam: Anti-Monsanto crusader or obsessed anti-GMO activist?

Corbin Hiar | 
[Carey Gillam] the longtime reporter, who now works for a consumer advocacy group, is pegged by her detractors as an activist at ...
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Viewpoint: Activists promotion of ‘fog of misinformation’ about GMOs challenges science communicators

Mary Mangan | 
Activists spend all day peddling nonsense. If they spent that kind of time on constructive issues…sigh. [A] local radio station ...
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Review of Whitewash (or Hogwash?): Carey Gillam’s glyphosate book betrays science, undermines our understanding of cancer

Mary Mangan | 
Last fall a new book hit the shelves, timed to coincide with public hearings on the European Union’s re-authorization of ...
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