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NEW. "US Intelligence Agency’s Classified Analysis Offers Detailed Scientific View That COVID-19 May Have Come From Wuhan lab."

"Docs are labeled with the classification, “secret/noforn” – or, not releasable to foreign nationals." (s. #USRightToKnow
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Denying Science, Manufacturing Doubt: Monsanto/Bayer's Promotion and Defense of Glyphosate/Roundup - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, December 16, 2022) A report released last week — Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide — exposes not only Bayer/Monsanto malfeasance in its “promotion” of its glyphosate-based herbicide products, including the notorious Roundup®, but also, the broader landscape of corporate efforts to white- or green-wash products that companies know are harmful to people and the environment. The report was issued by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK, a nonprofit investigative research group focused on promoting transparency for public health), Friends of the Earth (FOE), and Real Food Media. It carries the pithy subtitle, “A case study in disinformation, corrupted science, and manufactured doubt about glyphosate,” a description cited by the Friends of the Earth press release as “at the core of the pesticide industry’s public relations playbook.” Beyond Pesticides welcomes this report, which comports with much of our previous coverage of the pesticide industry’s egregious misbehavior, and of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide. FOE calls the report the “first comprehensive review” of the Bayer/Monsanto “defense strategy” employed in attempts to deny science, manufacture doubt, and discredit critics who have researched, reported on, and/or advocated against the company’s flagship glyphosate products because […]

#USRightToKnow report Merchants of Poison: How #Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic #Pesticide exposes corporate malfeasance & #greenwashing. #roundup #glyphosate #pesticides #herbicides #environmentalprotection #environment #cancer #Bayer #health #EPAfail

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How the pesticide industry tried to stop a bill to protect bees in Maryland Emails obtained by USRTK provide a rare window into the pesticide industry’s playbook for trying to keep neonics on the US market.

This is happening all over the US! 😱 Grassroots efforts CAN thwart industry's playbook for keeping toxic #pesticides on the market, despite the deadly impact on #pollinators.#garyruskin #USRightToKnow #abbehamilton #neonics #neonicban #insectapocalypse

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