The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen
Author:Mitchel Cohen [Cohen, Mitchel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science, Environmental Science, law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Medical, Public Health, political science, Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Technology & Engineering, environmental, General, Agriculture & Food Policy, Social Science, Conspiracy Theories, chemistry
ISBN: 9781510735149
Google: qmiCDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-01-08T23:47:46.340812+00:00
IARC Pushes Back
In October 2016, in another exclusive scoop,34 Kelland portrayed IARC as a secretive organization that had asked its scientists to withhold documents pertaining to the glyphosate review. The article was based on correspondence provided to Kelland by a pro-industry law group.35
In response, IARC took the unusual step of posting Kellandâs questions and the answers they had sent her,36 which provided context left out of the Reuters story.
IARC explained that Monsantoâs lawyers were asking scientists to turn over draft and deliberative documents, and in light of the ongoing lawsuits against Monsanto, âthe scientists felt uncomfortable releasing these materials, and some felt that they were being intimidated.â The agency said they had faced similar pressure in the past to release draft documents to support legal actions involving asbestos and tobacco, and that there was an attempt to draw deliberative IARC documents into PCB litigation.
The story didnât mention those examples, or the concerns about draft scientific documents ending up in lawsuits, but the piece was heavy on critiques of the IARC, describing it as a group âat odds with scientists around the world,â which âhas caused controversyâ with cancer assessments that âcan cause unnecessary health scares.â The IARC has âsecret agendasâ and its actions were âridiculous,â according to a Monsanto executive quoted in the story.
The IARC wrote in response37 (emphasis in original): âThe article by Reuters follows a pattern of consistent but misleading reports about the IARC Monographs Programme in some sections of the media beginning after glyphosate was classified as probably carcinogenic to humans.â
The IARC also pushed back on38 Kellandâs reporting about Blair, noting the conflict of interest with her source Tarone and explaining that the IARCâs cancer evaluation program does not consider unpublished data and âdoes not base its evaluations on opinions presented in media reports,â but on the âsystematic assembly and review of all publicly available and pertinent scientific studies, by independent experts, free from vested interests.â
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