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  1. Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism
    Total Information Control

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. Such journalism is, most people agree, essential to any equitable and open system of government. The science media has somehow escaped serious attention. This is unfortunate because no country in the world has a healthy science media.
  2. Genes, Cells and Brains
    The Promethean Promises of the New Biology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    An argument exposing how the bioscience industry has repeatedly failed to produce on its promises.
  3. Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
  4. Merchants of Doubt
    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
  5. Public Library of Science (PLOS)
    Resource Type: Website
    The PLOS mission is to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Everything that we publish is open-access – freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing research encourages progress, from protecting the biodiversity of our planet to finding more effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.
  6. Retraction Watch
    Resource Type: Website
    Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
  7. Science Daily
    Resource Type: Website
    Your source for the latest research news.
  8. Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".


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