IARC-gate: How NOT to represent science at the international level

IARC (the International Agency for Research on Cancer) has fallen to a new low on any scale of research integrity. Yesterday it used an anti-industry, anti-pesticides journalist to defend its position on the glyphosate monograph against claims made by scientists, institutions, governments and the media (including this blog). The day after the release of the…

The Vulgar Act of Vilifying Farmers

Today lobbyists from NGOs and the organic industry have vilified conventional farming. Ask any farmer what they think of the image these cosmopolitan zealots have created, and the word “vulgar” comes to mind.