Democracy Now! today http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracynow/dn2014-0221-1.mp3 http://dncdn.dvlabs.com/ipod/dn2014-0221.mp4 http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/21/silencing_the_scientist_tyrone_hayes_on
has an interview with Tyrone Hayes regarding Syngenta's attempts to suppress then smear his research on atrazine. The Hayes interview starts ~31 min into the audio, and runs ~17 min. DN! does not (as I post) have a transcript up, but usually does within ~12 hr of end-of-broadcast (0900 EDT). However, DN's piece is following up Rachel Aviv's recent non-paywall-ed New Yorker article http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?printable=true¤tPage=all In both, Hayes alludes to something that I believe should be foregrounded by the open-science/reproducible-research community: the utility of OSRR and "radical openness" in resisting denial-of-science attacks, esp corporate file-drawer-ing. OSRR probably won't help avert deployment of the more egregious tactics of evil institutions like Syngenta/Novartis, e.g., - orchestrated harassment (including physical stalking and threats) - scientific astroturfing (by the US "science for hire" industry, e.g., American Council on Science and Health) - manipulation of regulators (notably, US EPA) - manipulation of academics (notably the University of California at Berkeley) and many of them are hopefully US-specific (esp those flowing from corporate control of US universities, regulators, and media). That being said, Syngenta/Novartis is a Swiss company, and neoliberal tactics often flow from the US to the EU (esp the UK). FWIW, Tom Roche <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
