By Jenny Thompson, Director, Health Sciences Institute
Is our government treating its own scientists like terrorists?
For years researchers at federal agencies like the FDA and USDA have warned that they’re being bullied, demoted and even fired for trying to bring you life-saving health information.
Especially when their studies could harm the bottom lines of billion-dollar drug, food and biotech companies.
President Obama vowed to put a stop to it — but dozens of scientists are learning the hard way just how much a politician’s promise is worth.
A prominent USDA scientist has been suspended and even yanked off an airplane for trying to expose the risks of genetically-modified foods.
And it looks like his shocking story is just the tip of the iceberg.
But he learned fast just who our government health agencies are set up to serve.
When Lundgren published a study on neonicotinoids — a type of pesticide that’s been linked to brain damage and has been killing off bees — our government started treating him like a Soviet spy!
The USDA poured through his emails, launched a six-month investigation into his lab, started denying his research requests, and even demanded that he stop talking to the media.
They said he had no right to publish such “sensitive” information.
Excuse me? Sensitive to who? Trust me, this information was only “sensitive” to companies like Bayer and Syngenta that are making billions selling this stuff.
But when Lundgren tried to take on Monsanto and the powerful GMO industry, things really boiled over.
Lundgren was on his way to a National Academy of Sciences meeting to talk about how GMOs are endangering American farmland and our nation’s food supply, when he was ordered off the airplane!
You would have thought he was working for ISIS instead of taxpayers like us!
The USDA made some lame excuse about how Lundgren’s paperwork wasn’t in order. And if you believe that, they have some tainted beef they’d like to sell you.
Make no mistake about it. The USDA was trying to stop Lundgren from saying anything that would harm companies like Monsanto that spend millions lobbying the federal government.
And that’s not exactly a new tactic. Just a few months ago, I told you how 10 USDA scientists were censured and ordered to retract studies about the risks of GMOs and Monsanto’s GMO-ready weedkiller Roundup.
And if there’s any good news here, it’s that Lundgren isn’t taking this sitting down.
When the USDA suspended him in August, the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a whistle-blower complaint on his behalf.
AS PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch put it, “If you want to prosper at USDA, don’t make waves. When you do what Jonathan is doing, you do so at your own peril.”
I guess nothing scares our government more than people willing to tell the truth.
And the USDA isn’t the only government agency where scientists are being intimidated or told to keep quiet.
Two years ago, the EPA appointed a “scientific integrity” official who was supposed to make sure scientists were free to conduct their research without industry interference or bullying.
So far, there have been 40 EPA staff complaints and only three “minor” ones were resolved. The majority of them — 23 — were dismissed outright.
As an EPA whistle-blower said, the grievance process doesn’t exist to protect scientists. It’s to “keep complaints from going outside the government’s control.”
Take a moment to write your members of Congress and demand better protections for government scientists who are supposed to keep us safe.
Otherwise these agency officials will continue to use censorship to protect big corporate contributors, and not you and me.
You know, the ones who pay their salaries with our tax dollars.
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Yes, I will contact my congressman
Good luck. Mine just spouted back Montsano rhetoric in his reply. Name is John Boozeman from Arkansas. These people get so much money from companies and most have forgotten who elected them although I did not vote for this man. start at top and clean house in DC. And do it quickly!!!!! Tom Cotton is no better.
Yes we do pay there salaries, and it’s way past time they start working for their pay and doing the job they are paid to do. Corp. America has got to be stopped when it comes to the health of the people. They are damaging the health of helpless babies and causing death. These GMO’s need to be exposed, The very people who push these chemicals on us need to be locked up for INTENT TO DO BODILY HARM, PREMEDITATED MURDER and polluting the earth. They are criminals. MONSANTO and all companies involves with them need to be held accountable the damage done. Crime has gone up, partly and largely because of the chemicals in the food causing unbalance in the body and brain..Perscription drugs are just that DRUGS. They are doing great damage. Let these scientist do there job of making the public aware, protecting the people.
I am aware of GMO & others,
But tell me why We don’t hear about Chem-trails, & what is being sprayed on our earth ? Don’t the big shots know they breath the same air as all humans? & where do they buy their food free of GMO ?
I know. somebody needs to ask Trump what he plans to do about teh chemtrails.
Here’s a great way to tell if a conspiracy theory is true:
If it would negatively affect the very rich and powerful, it’s most certainly not true. Chemtrails. Don’t the big shots know they breathe the same air as all humans? Yep. That’s why chemtrails are not real.
Aircraft fuel is composed primarily of hydrocarbons, which give carbon dioxide and water vapor as their main combustion products. Contrails (your “chemtrails”) are formed when these hot exhaust gases mix with rarefied cool air. In a process similar to cloud formation, the water freezes quickly, forming a white haze of microscopic ice crystals which is essentially an elongated cloud. Learning is fun.
But the rich and powerful can afford breathing machines that block out the chemtrails or they can live around a bunch of plants. theres ways around it.
these biotech, and pharmaceutical company lobbyists need to be stopped. can we pleas see some conservative lawmakers shut them down and prosecute them for suppressing real cures and natural alternative therapies. These evil corporations have caused suffering, death, and environmental suffering to the entire human race. WAKE UP CONSERVATIVES!!!!!!!!! I DID.
Absolutely true. Our country is in big trouble starting w POTUS.
The problem will never be resolved…..Most of Congress has already been bought off by Big Pharma…This corruption is all part of Gov’t corruption in D.C…..The DISTRICT OF CORRUPTION…..Too many jobs and too much money would be lost…..I don’t know how these people can even live with themselves….All for the big bucks….They’re all in on this, and only We The People will pay the ultimate price……These animals, (my apologies to all animals) just don’t care if we survive or die, as long as the big money keeps rolling in…They’re all pathetic excuses for human beings…..I hope to seek the truth on their final judgement day.
You are right, Phil. “For the love of money is the root of all evil.” Our current government is a prime example of that. I fully believe that now we must return to our ancestral roots of self-sufficiency where our freedom and prosperity are our own responsibility. The government can no longer be trusted or believed or relied upon for anything.
Sonny – you it the nail squarely on the head. They have had a natural cure for most cancers in other countries for years but between the big “Pharms” , the government and our controlled media, they have let thousands of people die to protect the almighty dollar. Sick!
Yes I at 78 y/o know self sufficiency grow my own food recycle, make do, have medical training, know self defense etc but age is going to catch us at some point. Maybe an answer for some would be a commune/family type arrangement with all members providing their best skills and we older ones teaching the skills we learned 75 years ago. Dream on Grandma!! I can grow beef and prep it for eating, milk a cow, raise food etc but I don’t know many who are interested in learning and when needed is not time to learn.
Louise, I like your comments, they seem to make sense. However, I don’t understand enough about what GMO is. What is the purpose of GMO? What happens to make GMO? Is all GMO bad for our health? Or just the ones with GMO that will kill insects that eat the plant and suppose not to kill us? Or is it the Roundup they can spray on the GMO plants that will invade our food and will harm or kill us?
I would like to see information about GMA process, there must be many different things done for some reason, is it all about increase harvest?
I am almost 68, still full of energy, despite certain health problems (irreversible, unfortunately) triggered by our medical gurus.
I would be more than happy to learn from people who have desire to share their wisdom and experience. I am being deprived of my rights to choose food that taste and smells like in my childhood. Here, in my new country there is no meet or chicken that resembles the taste I still have in my brain. I support your wonderful idea of a community that can sustain itself and can enjoy the fruits of their own labor. In Germany, for example, 39% of population are involved in Agriculture. In our country only 3% in 2000.
Yelena
You hit the nail on the head about our government trustworthiness Sunny! I can’t think of one single thing I would trust our government heads to do for me! Every time they try to do something, they screw it up! Our only hope is to keep them out of the loop on everything!
Term limits are the best answer for now, but not the complete answer. This sore of coerscion exists in medican research as well; just look what happens to researchers in vaccines! They are threatened and their date is changed just like the climated data is being.
Both the USDA and the FDA are virtually owned by big agra and big pharma.
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Anyone who can’t see it is blind/
BTW: the free email letters from HSI are well worth reading.
I read both articles from HSI every day, five days a week for seven or eight years now… Very informative, always depressing, but very informative… They have us all by the Gonads and won’t let up.
Are any conservatives doing what Bernie’s doing?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/17/warren-and-sanders-grill-obama-nominee-fda-chief/75957610/
Obama and his Cronies don’t want anyone over the age of 60yrs to survive at all, costing to much money to keep us around.
Not only that but, our elected Official’s don’t want to stir up trouble in Washington because they want to stay in office for their own benefit, free health coverage, NO END to THEIR RETIREMENT MONEY (SAME AS BEING STILL IN OFFICE) needless to say, “OUR GOVERNMENT” is and has been for years, CORRUPT TO THE CORE with their interest being themselves only. We have had enough from them, time we elect non politicians and President with our interest at heart.
Amen to all the above!!! Big Agra and Big Pharma are evil, creating human engineered products antithetical to what The Lord created for our physical well-being.
All you have to do is watch the never-ending TV ads by law firms who represent victims of drugs approved by the FDA. The drug companies work with the FDA to get their drugs released before adequate long-term testing has been done. It’s the same with the USDA. Unfortunately, the politicians in congress are getting their cut, so why would they object? I personally, do extensive research about a natural alternative to any drugs I’ve been prescribed, plus preventive supplements/herbs to hopefully keep from ending up with certain conditions. This type of thinking by millions of Americans really causes the FDA/USDA to try to silence those who are researching drug alternatives. It’s criminal.
I find it interesting that many people who are really nothing more than the average ‘joe’ when they get elected to congress, frequently are extremely wealthy when they finally leave congress, often decades later. How does that happen??? We all know the answer. Isn’t it interesting that the founders of our country were wealthy, successful individuals who offered themselves for real public service – they were giving to their country, not looking for what they could get from their country? How many members of congress can say they HONESTLY ran for office to give, rather than to receive? Try suggesting term limits!! This is the only way to keep anyone in congress from getting himself/herself ‘indebted’ to any agency, ie. FDA, organization, group, corporation, etc. The longer these people ‘serve’, the more they become part of the corruption.
I thought we live in the U.S.A. NOT IN A COMUNIST COUNTRY
Amen! Obama and his comunist crony capitalism has to stop before all the babies die!
The USDA and the Big Pharma are “murders”. They know the drugs will give people side affects but they couldn’t care less because as long as their pockets are full that’s what they care. If you’re dying, their heads just turn to the side (not interest it).
I have one question, people can vote these congressmen out of office but they don`t. WHY?
It seems that the voters are part of the problem.
Are political leaders and government agencies are too easily bribed by special interests to do what is right. Enough said!
to all, the rich have controled the world from begining of time, and still do.. all the complaining won’t change a thing. so save your efforts.. thats the way it is.
It will do no good to contact Vermonts Leahy, Sanders, and Welch as it might put a crimp in their “income”!
Sanders doesn’t take money from the pharma or chem industries.