以前
HPVワクチン騒動から赤狩りを連想・WHOの意見に意を唱える医師達をリストアップするコーネル大のAlliance for Science
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/afternoon-tea-club2/e/8c608dc2118a40b6c96af0693ee903c9
コーネル大Alliance for Science－2014年ビル・ゲイツに5.6百万ドル援助されて発足
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/afternoon-tea-club-2/e/2b89abc1381af1f51acd102a31a0cf0a
と、コーネル大学のAlliance for Scienceについて書きましたが、コーネル大学自体が、モンサント協力大学のようですね。（もちろん、良心的な教授陣はいますけど。）
Independent Science News
The GMO Debate: One Student’s Experience of Pro-GMO Propaganda at Cornell University
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-gmo-debate-one-students-experience-of-pro-gmo-propaganda-at-cornell-university/
My name is Robert, and I am a Cornell University undergraduate student. However, I’m not sure if I want to be one any more. Allow me to explain.
Cornell, as an institution, appears to be complicit in a shocking amount of ecologically destructive, academically unethical, and scientifically deceitful behavior. Perhaps the most potent example is Cornell’s deep ties to industrial GMO agriculture, and the affiliated corporations such as Monsanto. I’d like to share how I became aware of this troubling state of affairs.
Throughout my secondary education, I’ve always had a passion for science. In particular, physics and mathematics captured my fascination. My sophomore AP physics teacher, Mr. Jones, became my main source of motivation to succeed. He convinced us students that our generation was crucial to repairing humanity’s relationship to science, and how we would play key roles in solving immense global issues, such as climate change. Thank you Mr. Jones! Without your vision, I would have never had the chance to attend such an amazing university.
（中略）
Cornell’s GMO Propaganda Campaign
I came back to Cornell a changed person, with a drastically different perspective. I was in for quite a shock, however: I sat in on a course entitled “The GMO Debate”. I was expecting members of an intellectual community coming together, with proponents and critics of GMO food each giving the best verified evidence they had to support their cause. Given all that I had learned about GMO agriculture, I was excited to participate for the “GMO skeptic” side.
The GMO Debate course, which ran in the fall of 2015, was a blatant display of unscientific propaganda in an academic setting. There were a total of 4 active professors in the course, and several guest speakers. They took turns each session defending industrial agriculture and biotechnology with exactly zero critical examination of GMOs. In spite of the course’s name, there was a complete lack of actual “debate”. Here are some of the more memorable claims I heard that fall semester:
- GMO food is necessary to feed the world
- there is no instance of harm from agricultural GMOs
- glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is safer than coffee and table salt
- if you believe in science, you must believe in GMO technology
- the science of genetic engineering is well understood
- “what off-target effects?” … when asked about the proven biochemical risks of GE technology
- Vitamin A rice is curing children of Vitamin A deficiency (even though the IRRI, the research institute responsible for rolling it out, says it won’t be ready for some years: http://goo.gl/mHcsoJ)
- Current pesticides and herbicides don’t pose an ecological or human health risk
- Bt is an organic pesticide, therefore Bt GMO crops are safe and pose no additional risk
- Bt crops work just fine — but we are now engineering insects as a complementary technology — to make the Bt work better
- “Are you scared of GMO insects? Because you shouldn’t be.”
- GMO crops are the most rigorously tested crops in the history of food
- “If [renowned environmentalist] Rachel Carson were alive today, she would be pro-GMO”
It gets better. During the semester, emails were released following a Freedom of Information Act request, showing that all four of the professors in the class, as well as several guest speakers, the head of Cornell’s pro-GMO group “Alliance for Science”, and the Dean of the College of Arts and Life Sciences were all copied in on emails with Monsanto. This was part of a much larger circle of academics promoting GMO crops on behalf of the biotech industry. Jonathan Latham PhD, virologist and editor of independentsciencenews.org, documented this in an article titled “The Puppetmasters of Academia”. I highly recommend giving it a read, for further context.
（全文、リンクからどうぞ。）
参考：
Independent Science News
The Puppetmasters of Academia (or What the NY Times Left out)
by Jonathan Latham, PhD
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/science-media/the-puppetmasters-of-academia-ny-times-left-out/
Independent Science News
HP
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/
Wikipedia
Bioscience Resource Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioscience_Resource_Project
