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…
Read More Better Know a Scientist: Rice Research Scientist Dr Nir Oksenberg
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…
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…
Read More April Fools: FoIA requests expand to all published academic GMO research
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,…
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…
