Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29512
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2 pages., "Scientists must ask seed companies for permission before publishing independent research on genetically modified crops. That restriction must end."
A version of this article appears in print on September 6, 2015, Section A, Page 1 of the New York Edition of the New York Times with the headline, "Emails reveal academic ties in a food war.", Examines lobbying activities of firms and interest groups in the debate over bioengineered foods - and involving third-party scientists "and their supposedly unbiased research." Includes examples of interactions and financial support for university scientists by commercial firms.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12108
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Online from Radio Free. 3 pages., Author reports on helping the U.S. Senate draft and pass the Physician Payments Sunshine Act a decade ago. It requires companies to report monies and gifts they give physicians, which are known to influence what doctors prescribe or promote. "We need a 'sunshine law' for science that would expose all sorts of conflicts of interest and industry manipulation that skew research on food, synthetical chemicals, pesticides, air pollution, genetic technology, and the climate."
Vallas, Steven P. (author), Kleinman, Daniel (author), Kinchy, Abby (author), and Necochea, Raul (author)
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Book chapter
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2004
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06735
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Pages 217-238 in Nico Stehr, Biotechnology: between commerce and civil society. Transaction Publishers,New Brunswick, New Jersey., Reveals evidence of feeling among scientists of self-interest and entitlement, fueled by commercialization of the university.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: C25472
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Retrieved March 7, 2007, Issue report prepared by a multi-disciplinary team from six universities, the Wallace Center and the Farm Foundation. 4 pages.
