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The '''Genetic Literacy Project''' is associated with the [[Statistical Assessment Service]] (STATS) and the [[Center for Media and Public Affairs]] (CMPA). Its executive director is [[Jon Entine]]who promotes GMOs. Bloomberg and The Progressive have reported that lawyers suing Monsanto state in court documents that companies funnel money to the [[Genetic Literacy Project]] in order to "shame scientists and highlight information helpful to Monsanto and other chemical producers.” <ref>Peter Waldman, Bloomberg Businessweek, Does the World’s Top Weed Killer Cause Cancer? Trump’s EPA Will Decide, July 13, 2017 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-13/does-the-world-s-top-weed-killer-cause-cancer-trump-s-epa-will-decide</ref><ref>Paul Thacker, The Progressive, July 21, 2017 http://progressive.org/magazine/how-the-biotech-industry-cultivates-positive-media/</ref>
The Genetic Literacy Project has attempted to deny their affiliation with [[Statistical Assessment Service]] (STATS) and the [[Center for Media and Public Affairs]] (CMPA).<ref>Polluter Watch Page for Jon Entine, accessed February 2017, http://www.polluterwatch.org/jon-entine</ref> However, archived page of the Genetic Literacy Project list the same address and phone number for [[Statistical Assessment Service]] (STATS) and the [[Center for Media and Public Affairs]] (CMPA).<ref>Website for Genetic Literacy Project in Wayback Machine, accessed February 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20130109205913/http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org:80/contact/</ref> In the New York Review of Books, Michael Massing wrote "the [[Center for Media and Public Affairs]] was set up with conservative foundation money in the mid-1980s as part of a growing effort by the right to portray the American press as liberal and out of touch with mainstream America."<ref>Michael Massing, "[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2006/02/09/the-enemy-within-an-exchange/ ‘The Enemy Within’: An Exchange
==Employees==
Executive Director [[Jon Entine]] is a former journalist. HuffPo released Entine's emails with [[Kevin Folta]] where they discussed funding from Monsanto and ways to discredit GMO critics. Folta was later discovered to be acting as a third party scientist for Monsanto.<ref>Paul D. Thacker, HuffPo, accessed August 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-kloors-endearing-love-affair-with-gmos_us_596fc0c8e4b062ea5f8eea33/</ref> When Folta's emails became public that showed he was being funded by Monsanto, he contacted Kloor to preemptively release the emails "but selectively." After Kloor wrote the story for Nature, he then warned [[Jon Entine]] of the [[Genetic Literacy Project]]. "You and I should also talk,” Kloor wrote to Entine. “You are in the emails.”<ref>Paul D. Thacker, HuffPo, accessed August 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-kloors-endearing-love-affair-with-gmos_us_596fc0c8e4b062ea5f8eea33/</ref>
The website for the Genetic Literacy Project also has several instances pages where [[Rebecca Goldin]] is cited as "Rebecca Goldin is Research Director for the Genetic Literacy Project and Director of Research for the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mathematics, and a B.A., cum laude from Harvard University."<ref>[[Rebecca Goldin]], Genetic Literacy Project, February 4, 2013 https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/02/04/bacterial-genetics-helps-defeat-antibiotic-resistant-super-bugs-2-2/</ref><ref>[[Rebecca Goldin]], Genetic Literacy Project, June 24, 2013 https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/06/24/privacy-and-our-genes-is-decodes-dna-project-big-brother-or-the-gateway-to-a-healthier-future/</ref>
Archived pages of the website for [[Statistical Assessment Service]] (STATS) carry an emblem for the Genetic Literacy Project, in the upper left corner.<ref>Website for [[Statistical Assessment Service]] (STATS) http://archive.is/ZqDa1</ref>
* Web: [http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/ http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/]
== Articles and Resources == Greenpeace Polluter Watch Profile of Jon Entine<ref>Polluter Watch, Page on Jon Entine, Accessed March 2018 http://www.polluterwatch.org/jon-entine</ref> Jon Entine and Genetic Literacy Project Spin Chemical Industry PR<ref>US Right to Know, Page on Jon Entine, Accessed March 2018 https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-industrys-master-messenger/</ref>
Trevor Butterworth and [[Sense About Science USA]] Spin Science for Industry<ref>US Right to Know, Page on Trevor Butterworth, Accessed March 2018 https://usrtk.org/food-for-thought/trevor-butterworth-spins-science-for-industry/</ref>
Article at STAT, linking Trevor Butterworth with the [[Genetic Literacy Project]]<ref>Paul D. Thacker, The pharmaceutical industry is no stranger to fake news, STAT, JANUARY 30, 2018 https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/30/pharmaceutical-industry-fake-news-tobacco/</ref>
* [[Jon Entine]]
* [[Rebecca Goldin]]
* [[Monsanto]]
* [[Sense About Science USA]]
=== References ===