Is the USDA silencing scientists?

EXCERPT: On Wednesday, PEER [Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility] filed a federal whistleblower complaint on Lundgren's behalf. According to his complaint, the suspension was part of a campaign of harassment that started last spring after two incidents. First, Lundgren talked to a journalist about the risks of a new genetic-engineering technique pioneered by the agribusiness-behemoth Monsanto. Then he peer-reviewed a report by the Center for Food Safety that criticized the overuse of neonicotinoids, which are ubiquitous in American agriculture and linked to widespread declines in pollinators.

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Is the USDA silencing scientists?

Brandon Keim
The Atlantic, 3 Nov 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/is-the-usda-silencing-scientists/413803/

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