Charles Benbrook
FOIA emails reveal anti-GMO, pro-organic spin ‘A team’ led by Tom Philpott and Michael Pollan
A trove of new emails tied to former professor Charles Benbrook shines an ethically harsh light on the journalistic ethics ...
FOIA: Organic industry, Chuck Benbrook orchestrated anti-GMO “independent” research, marketing
FOIA released emails show that the former university professor whose research is the lynchpin of the anti-GMOs industry's public case ...
FOIA: For $100,000 Charles Benbrook offered to ‘ramrod’ ‘independent’ anti-GMO research for Australian activists
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New York Times publishes emails of Charles Benbrook, paid organic consultant who produced ‘industry talking points’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Charles M. Benbrook, formerly ...
Anti-GMO scientist claims biotech industry launders messages through scientists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biotech industry’s web ...
Georgia’s Wayne Parrott: ‘Time to end transparency double-standard targeting biotech scientists’
I have long been a firm believer that any public scientist who cannot explain, defend and justify his/her work to ...
Marion Nestle: ‘Conflicted studies conflicted if biotech or organic lobby pays for them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On August 6, the New ...
Big Organic and Big Ag both fund expenses, research as GMO debate intensifies
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Charles Benbrook funded by Big Organic to publish on issues central to their anti-GMO market strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor’s Note: For more ...
Yale professor dissects flawed anti-GMO commentary in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A recent commentary published ...
Landrigan and Benbrook get it wrong on GMOs in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an opinion piece was ...
Are GMOs and herbicides safe? New England Journal of Medicine commentary casts doubt
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this commentary to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note: For a profile ...
GM labeling proponents target glyphosate use in farming
Proponents of mandatory labeling of food products targeted U.S. agriculture's increasing use of glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide ...
The Case for GMOs and Sustainability
From conventional breeding to mutagenesis, none of our foods that we eat today is the product of Nature’s way. But ...
Viewpoint: Consumer Reports should stick to advice about cars and toilets; Its policy advocacy is misguided
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. The editors of the ...
‘GMO free’ myth busting: Labeling movement leading farmers to use more toxic chemicals
The 'non GMO' movement has been a boon to some farmers, who have dumped GMOs to grow conventional non GMO ...
5 questions answered on glyphosate
The world’s most widely-used herbicide has been getting a lot of attention lately. Last month, an international agency declared glyphosate, ...
Reflections on the Great Biotech Debate: Dissecting the arguments
Intelligence Squared, an organization that organizes public debates across the globe, holds them in traditional Oxford debating style which pits one team ...
GMO DEBATE RECAP: Battle over Biotechnology—Public backs GM research and farming
I was really excited to watch the Intelligence Squared debate. I've been looking forward to it for seemingly ages. Bottom ...
In wake of GMO debate defeat, antis throw leaders under the bus?
Within minutes after the routing of anti-GMO scientists Margaret Mellon and Charles Benbrook at Wednesday's Intelligence Squared debate--the motion in favor of ...
Battle over Biotechnology: Pro and anti GMO scientists square off
Intelligence Squared will be hosting the first high profile debate among scientists over genetically modified food in years. Viewers can ...
GLP’s Jon Entine cautions National Academy of Sciences about views of anti-science NGOs
The GLP's executive director speaks at the National Academy of Sciences, which embarks on a comprehensive study of the “purported” ...
Study claiming organic food more nutritious ‘deeply flawed’, say independent scientists
Are organic foods better for you? A new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition appears to indicate so ...
In hyped claim organic milk is healthier, activist science meets bungled reporting
Last week, the web erupted after organic researcher Charles Benbrook promoted a new study as the long-awaited proof of the ...
Is there really a science-based GMO controversy? False balance captures Discover magazine
Discover's cover story on the anti-biotech movement gives unwarranted weight to anti-GM activists and in the process raises questions about ...
Scientists challenge organic backer Benbrook claims that GM crops increase pesticide spraying
The ongoing hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetic modified crops ...
