“The underlying justification for this ‘transparency’ proposal is a caricature of how science really works,” Mr. Michaels said at a recent hearing. can be best described as ‘weaponized transparency.’”It is no coincidence, he said, that the term “secret science” was also used in the 1970s when the tobacco industry was trying to forestall critical research about smoking. emailed Ms. Eskenazi requesting “the original data” from her research, citing “uncertainty around neurodevelopmental effects associated” with pesticides she has studied. may try to undermine her study’s repeated findings that some pesticides may be harming children. “I knew this was going to come sooner or later,” she said.

Source: New York Times August 24, 2018 13:00 UTC