The Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) an ideologically-focused research groups funded by ‘dark money’ support from the organic industry and tort lawyers cashing on on suits against agro-chemical companies has pushed aggressively to influence the media and the scientific community for the stakeholders funding them.
Until the 1990s, research was often low-budget, done in government agencies or industry funded. But as universities acquired expensive analytical technologies, as industry science was labeled as biased, as foundations and activist groups started to fund their own scientists and as the journal publication process changed to a digital, market-driven model, so did the science, the scientist and the scientific method.
Independent scientists rip Benbrook's co-authored commentary in New England Journal calling for reassessment of dangers of all GMO crops and herbicides