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USRTK is an organic industry front group. From [1]:
Just that, no other donors listed. We don't need to WP:ATT this to Forbes, since they are completely open about it. USRTK exists solely to pursue political actions at arms length, and there is no significant source of funding other than OCA/OCF, whose own funding is obscure but whose foundation was fully funded by the industry.
This is not controversial, as far as I can see, they don't do anything to deny it or even try to hide it. Guy ( Help!) 16:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Tryptofish: regarding [2], is the controversy in the sources cited "over his rebuttals to critics" or because he accepted tens of thousands of dollars of industry payments which were not disclosed until his emails were FOIAed? [3] ("his university now intends to donate the Monsanto grant money to a food pantry." [4]) EllenCT ( talk) 20:06, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
I propose "There has been controversy over his rebuttals to critics of GMO food, who have alleged that he has financial conflicts of interest, and who have been criticized in turn for their claims," be changed to, "Folta gave a series of talks and podcasts promoting GMO food, including Monsanto products, while claiming to be an independent expert after having accepted a $25,000 grant from Monsanto for travel, food, and equipment in support of the talks. He did not disclose the payment until it was discovered by anti-GMO activists who obtained his emails through a Freedom of Information Act request. His university attempted to return the money but donated it to charity after Monsanto refused to take it back." EllenCT ( talk) 04:53, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
I just remembered that there has already been a marathon discussion about how to write this in the lead: pretty much all of Talk:Kevin Folta/Archive 2. I went back and reviewed that. And I came away thinking that we should (a) not try to reinvent the wheel, and (b) keep it short and simple, with details lower down on the page. Therefore, I would prefer to go back to:
-- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:26, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Due to some topic bans, the population of editors taking part in this discussion going forward has changed somewhat. I wonder whether now there might be consensus to go with the sentence that I posted at the top of this sub-section? I would prefer it, and I think that it's probably better to include it than to omit it entirely from the lead. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:00, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
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I've removed a quote that was attributed to Henry I. Miller from the COI section [7]. While it is true that there is an archive of the article used as a source, the problem is an unusual one - the reason why Forbes removed all of their articles by Miller (including this one) is that Miller was found to have published material written by Monsanto and publishing it under his own name [8]. This creates two problems - we need to question the reliability of Miller in regard to GMOs in general, but more importantly we need to be very cautions about using him in regards to accusations of conflicts of interest. - Bilby ( talk) 08:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
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USRTK is an organic industry front group. From [1]:
Just that, no other donors listed. We don't need to WP:ATT this to Forbes, since they are completely open about it. USRTK exists solely to pursue political actions at arms length, and there is no significant source of funding other than OCA/OCF, whose own funding is obscure but whose foundation was fully funded by the industry.
This is not controversial, as far as I can see, they don't do anything to deny it or even try to hide it. Guy ( Help!) 16:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Tryptofish: regarding [2], is the controversy in the sources cited "over his rebuttals to critics" or because he accepted tens of thousands of dollars of industry payments which were not disclosed until his emails were FOIAed? [3] ("his university now intends to donate the Monsanto grant money to a food pantry." [4]) EllenCT ( talk) 20:06, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
I propose "There has been controversy over his rebuttals to critics of GMO food, who have alleged that he has financial conflicts of interest, and who have been criticized in turn for their claims," be changed to, "Folta gave a series of talks and podcasts promoting GMO food, including Monsanto products, while claiming to be an independent expert after having accepted a $25,000 grant from Monsanto for travel, food, and equipment in support of the talks. He did not disclose the payment until it was discovered by anti-GMO activists who obtained his emails through a Freedom of Information Act request. His university attempted to return the money but donated it to charity after Monsanto refused to take it back." EllenCT ( talk) 04:53, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
I just remembered that there has already been a marathon discussion about how to write this in the lead: pretty much all of Talk:Kevin Folta/Archive 2. I went back and reviewed that. And I came away thinking that we should (a) not try to reinvent the wheel, and (b) keep it short and simple, with details lower down on the page. Therefore, I would prefer to go back to:
-- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:26, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Due to some topic bans, the population of editors taking part in this discussion going forward has changed somewhat. I wonder whether now there might be consensus to go with the sentence that I posted at the top of this sub-section? I would prefer it, and I think that it's probably better to include it than to omit it entirely from the lead. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:00, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
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I've removed a quote that was attributed to Henry I. Miller from the COI section [7]. While it is true that there is an archive of the article used as a source, the problem is an unusual one - the reason why Forbes removed all of their articles by Miller (including this one) is that Miller was found to have published material written by Monsanto and publishing it under his own name [8]. This creates two problems - we need to question the reliability of Miller in regard to GMOs in general, but more importantly we need to be very cautions about using him in regards to accusations of conflicts of interest. - Bilby ( talk) 08:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)