Monthly Archives : July 2017

Remember that Time Someone Rich and Famous Promised to Stalk You for the Rest of Your Life?

Yesterday, I began to tell a story about character assassination. It’s a story about how I came to be the focus of one crusading quasi-journalist and a group of GMO opponents unhappy with my reporting and writing on the topic of agricultural biotechnology. What I have experienced these past few years is not uncommon for…Continue Reading…

Dispatch from the Science Wars

1. Earlier this year I wrote a feature story about science distortion by activists. I compared the truth-warping tactics of Donald Trump to that of anti-vaccine and anti-GMO campaigners. I discussed the methods used by the GOP to demonize Hillary Clinton over decades and how that laid the foundation for Trump’s “crooked” Hillary narrative in…Continue Reading…