The anti-GMO movement is nothing but a pseudoscientific scam.

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126. Thank you for revealing your "pro-free market," climate denial, Koch colors so clearly!

In your effort to discredit a Washington State Faculty member who has done responsible research on GMO's, you site a piece written by the President of the ACSH, a right-wing foundation set up to counter environmental researchers with the claim that the environmentalists and "activists" are engaging in "junk science."

So you are solidly on the team of George W. Bush, the WSJ, and the Heritage Foundation -- the only endorsers the ACSH chooses to note on its website.

Bravo! We may disagree, but thanks for coming clean about your sources. I really appreciate that.

You're claiming support from an explicitly anti-progressive, pro-fracking, Koch-funded group. So what are you doing on DU? Trying to reform us dumb progressives?

Below, the ACSH both reveals and brags about its right-wing connections -- and asks for some money to help pay for its important "pro-science, pro-technology and pro-free market approach."


http://acsh.org/about-acsh/

What people are saying about us

“By increasing our understanding of complex issues, you help Americans make sound decisions about their well-being and influence public policy.”

– President George W. Bush

“ACSH knows the difference between a health scare and a health threat.”

– The Wall Street Journal

“On one issue after another in recent years, ACSH has stood as a bulwark against the contemporary Luddites who see the beginning of civilization’s end in every technological advance that reaches the market place.”

– Edwin Feulner, President The Heritage Foundation


Your tax-deductible gift would go to work instantly in promoting a pro-science, pro-technology and pro-free market approach to the important issues related to food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle the environment and human health. Together, we can make our world a better place.






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From Mother Jones:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising

Leaked Documents Reveal the Secret Finances of a Pro-Industry Science Group

The American Council on Science and Health defends fracking, BPA, and pesticides. Guess who their funders are.

SNIP

From Greenpeace:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/front-groups/american-council-on-science-and-health-acsh/

American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)

Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group

$155,000 received from Koch foundations 2005-2011 [Total Koch foundation grants 1997-2011: $155,000]

The American Council for Science and Health is an industry-funded group that works to undermine not only climate change science, but the health threats associated with controversial company products like bisphenol-A (BPA) and atrazine, a pesticide. According to Andy Kroll, writing for Mother Jones, “Elizabeth Whelan, a Harvard-trained public-health scientist, founded ACSH in 1978 as a counterweight to environmental groups and Ralph Nader’s consumer advocacy movement.”

In 1997, ACSH released a position paper titled “Global Climate Change and Human Health,” which claims that cutting greenhouse gas emissions, because it would hurt the economy, would be more detrimental to public health than global warming. “[P]olicymakers can safely take several decades to plan a response, and scientists will have enough time to develop cost-effective and anti-climate-change strategies.”