In this month’s “Better Know a Scientist”, I’m interviewing Dr Nir Oksenberg. He works in a lab that actually makes transgenic crops! Nir’s career seems to have taken a very windy road: he completed his PhD at UCSF studying a…
Tag: FOIA
What is a Conflict of Interest?
Over the course of the past few months, several GMO researchers and/or advocates had their emails seized under Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA). The requests to view the emails came from US Right to Know (USRTK), an organization who is…
April Fools: FoIA requests expand to all published academic GMO research
Editor's Note: The following post was part of our 2015 April Fools prank on our readers. A lot of people had fun reading and joking about it. If you were worried about so many researchers being harassed you can now…
Silencing Public Scientists
Written by Kevin Folta Last week I received a FOIA request that all of my emails bearing certain terms were going to be obtained and turned over to an activist group. US-RTK, a San Francisco-based activist group, namely Gary Ruskin,…
USRTK wants the Emails of Public Scientists
This is troubling news for academic scientists. An organization called "US Right to Know" has issued at least a dozen legal requests to the home universities of public scientists who have made efforts to educate the public about genetically engineered…