Translating Activist Spin: How They Lie to the Public
Two weeks ago now an activist brochure was distributed through the internet, promoted as exposing "alarming" levels of glyphosate in common grocery store items. The report did not provide adequate methods, statistics, or evidence of replication, and therefore does not qualify as work that can be trusted. I have spoken with the laboratory that did the work. They claim to have done the test correctly, but did not provide evidence of that or any statement of the numbers of replicates. They won't do that because the data belong to a paying client. And of course, the paying client has no interest in transparency, as that would let the air out of the fear balloon. My comments and criticisms were all correct and within the bounds of conventions of analytical chemistry. Others have been much more critical and feel that there's no way these results should ever be trusted. Bottom line-- it is unacceptable to scare the public with false statements about un-trustabl