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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, [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-13/does-the-world-s-top-weed-killer-cause-cancer-trump-s-epa-will-decide Does the World’s Top Weed Killer Cause Cancer? Trump’s EPA Will Decide], ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', July 13, 2017.</ref><ref>Paul Thacker, [http://progressive.org/magazine/how-the-biotech-industry-cultivates-positive-media/ Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media—and Discourages Criticism], ''The Progressive'', July 21, 2017.</ref> In a report that examined corporate attacks on science, Congress found that to discredit the World Health Organization (WHO), Monsanto "turned to industry trade groups, such as CropLife and industry front groups, such as Genetic Literacy Project and Academics Review as platforms of support for industry spokespersons."<ref>U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space & Technology: "Spinning Science & Silencing Scientists: A Case Study in How the Chemical Industry Attempts to Influence Science, " February 2018 [https://democrats-science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/documents/02.06.18%20-%20Spinning%20Science%20and%20Silencing%20Scientists_0.pdfSpinning Science & Silencing Scientists: A Case Study in How the Chemical Industry Attempts to Influence Science]," congressional committee report, February 2018.</ref>

The Genetic Literacy Project's website is owned by the public relations company: ESG MediaMetrics.<ref>GM Watch, October 15ICANN, 2018 [https://www.gmwatchsourcewatch.org/enimages/news8/latest-news84/18507-the-three-stooges-of-science-denial-the-genetic-literacy-project-sense-about-science-and-statsGLP_ICANN_WHOIS.pdf GeneticLiteracyProject.org WHOIS], website registration information, accessed October 19, 2018.</ref>The website for ESG Mediametrics has been removed, but archived version of the firm show that its clients include Monsanto, the Vinyl Institute, and Merisant, a Monsanto spin-off that manufactured artificial sweeteners.<refname="GMWatch">GM Watch, October 15, 2018 [https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18507-the-three-stooges-of-science-denial-the-genetic-literacy-project-sense-about-science-and-statsThe Three Stooges of Science Denial: The Genetic Literacy Project, Sense About Science, and STATS], ''GM Watch'', October 15, 2018.</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 2017Greenpeace, [http://www.polluterwatch.org/jon-entineJon Entine], ''Polluter Watch'', accessed February 2017.</ref> However, an 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 BooksContact], organizational website, 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 archived 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]," The New York Review of BooksWayback Machine, accessed February 9, 2006.</ref> Reporters with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that STATS was a stealth defender of the chemical industry that did not disclose funders and was associated with [[Center for Media and Public Affairs]] (CMPA) which had contracted with tobacco companies2017.<ref>Meg Kissinger and Susanne Rust, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 22, 2009 http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195297.html/</ref>

In the ''New York Review of Books'', Michael Massing wrote, "[T]he [[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]," ''The New York Review of Books'', February 9, 2006.</ref> Reporters with the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' reported that STATS was a stealth defender of the chemical industry that did not disclose funders and was associated with [[Center for Media and Public Affairs]] (CMPA), which had contracted with tobacco companies.<ref>Meg Kissinger and Susanne Rust, "[http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195297.html/ BPA industry fights back], ''The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', August 22, 2009.</ref>  The group regularly denies having any ties to Monsanto. However, in late 2017 documents were released as part of a lawsuit against [[Monsanto]] regarding the possible carcinogenicity of the pesticide glyphosate.<ref>Carey Gillam, "How Monsanto Manufactured Outrage At Chemical Cancer Classification It Expected", Huffington Post, September 19, 2017.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-monsanto-manufactured-outrage-at-chemical-cancer_us_59c17c88e4b0f96732cbc9f3How Monsanto Manufactured Outrage At Chemical Cancer Classification It Expected]," ''Huffington Post'', September 19, 2017.</ref> One document detailed Monsanto's battle plan against the World Health Organization, which was planning to classify glyphosate as a possible carcinogen. On page five, Monsanto's plan listed strategies and tactics for discrediting the World Health Organization before it released it's its ruling, and named several "industry partners" they would work with that included , including Biofortified AKA [[Biology Fortified, Inc.]], [[Sense About Science]], Genetic Literacy Project, and [[Academics Academic Review]]/.<ref>Monsanto: Glyphosate IARCMONSANTO, Draft dated February 23, 2015. [http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/72-Document-Details-Monsantos-Goals-After-IARC-Report.pdfMonsanto: Glyphosate IARC], internal corporate report draft dated February 23, 2015, released by Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman PC. </ref>

GLP Executive Director [[Jon Entine]] is a former journalist. HuffPo The ''Huffington Post'' 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.<refname="HuffPo">Paul D. Thacker, HuffPo, accessed August 2017, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-kloors-endearing-love-affair-with-gmos_us_596fc0c8e4b062ea5f8eea33/Keith Kloor’s Endearing Love Affair With GMOs], ''Huffington Post'', July 19, 2017.</ref> When Folta's emails became public that showed , showing he was being funded by Monsanto, he contacted [[Keith 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,” " [[Keith Kloor]] wrote to [[Jon Entine]], “You . "You are in the emails.”"<ref>Paul D. Thacker, name="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 pages where [[Rebecca Goldin]] is cited as called "Rebecca Goldin is Research Director for the Genetic Literacy Project and Director of Research for the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University. ," adding, "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/Bacterial genetics helps defeat antibiotic-resistant "super-bugs]," organizational article, February 4, 2013.</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/Privacy and our genes: Is deCode’s DNA project ‘Big Brother’ or the gateway to a healthier future?], organizational article, June 24, 2013.</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/ZqDa1STATS], organizational website, archived January 13, 2013.</ref>

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U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space & Technology: "Spinning Science & Silencing Scientists: A Case Study in How the Chemical Industry Attempts to Influence Science"<ref>U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space & Technology: "Spinning Science & Silencing Scientists: A Case Study in How the Chemical Industry Attempts to Influence Science" February 2018 https://democrats-science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/documents/02.06.18%20-%20Spinning%20Science%20and%20Silencing%20Scientists_0.pdf</ref> 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> The Three Stooges of Science Denial: The Genetic Literacy Project, Sense About Science, and STATS<ref>GM Watch, October 15, 2018 https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18507-the-three-stooges-of-science-denial-the-genetic-literacy-project-sense-about-science-and-stats</ref>===Related SourceWatch Articles===

=== References External Resources===<references* U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space & Technology: "[https://democrats-science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/documents/02.06.18%20-%20Spinning%20Science%20and%20Silencing%20Scientists_0.pdf Spinning Science & Silencing Scientists: A Case Study in How the Chemical Industry Attempts to Influence Science]," February 2018. * Greenpeace, [http://www.polluterwatch.org/jon-entine Profile of Jon Entine], ''Polluter Watch'', accessed March 2018. * US Right to Know, [https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-industrys-master-messenger/ Jon Entine and Genetic Literacy Project Spin Chemical Industry PR], accessed March 2018. * US Right to Know, [https://usrtk.org/food-for-thought/trevor-butterworth-spins-science-for-industry/ Trevor Butterworth and Sense About Science USA Spin Science for Industry], accessed March 2018. * Paul D. Thacker, [https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/30/pharmaceutical-industry-fake-news-tobacco/>The pharmaceutical industry is no stranger to fake news] (links Trevor Butterworth to GLP), ''STAT'', January 30, 2018.

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