<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 11.00.10586.35"></HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000"
bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document
color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>
<TABLE id=backgroundTable
style="HEIGHT: 100% !important; WIDTH: 100% !important; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"
cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=center><!-- // Begin Template Preheader \\ -->
<TABLE id=templatePreheader style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fafafa"
cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=600 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD class=preheaderContent vAlign=top><!-- // Begin Module: Standard Preheader \\ -->
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #505050; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"></DIV></TD>
<TD vAlign=top width=180>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #505050; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><!--
-->Is this email not displaying correctly?<BR><A
title=http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=67b03e588c&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=67b03e588c&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>View it in your browser</A>.<!--
--> </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Module: Standard Preheader \\ --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Template Preheader \\ -->
<TABLE id=templateContainer
style="BORDER-TOP: #dddddd 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #dddddd 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #dddddd 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #dddddd 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fdfdfd"
cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=center><!-- // Begin Template Header \\ -->
<TABLE id=templateHeader
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" cellSpacing=0
cellPadding=0 width=600 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD class=headerContent
style="FONT-SIZE: 34px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #202020; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><!-- // Begin Module: Standard Header Image \\ --><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=b0d5471ab6&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=b0d5471ab6&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank></A> <!-- // End Module: Standard Header Image \\ --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Template Header \\ --></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=center><!-- // Begin Template Body \\ -->
<TABLE id=templateBody cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=600
border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD class=bodyContent style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fdfdfd"
vAlign=top><!-- // Begin Module: Standard Content \\ -->
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">
<H1
style="FONT-SIZE: 28px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; DISPLAY: block; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%">Media
Take Diet Advice From Coke-Funded
Academics</H1></DIV></DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">
<DIV id=attachment_5576096 class="wp-caption alignright"
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; WIDTH: 360px; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=686226710c&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=686226710c&e=c9c3a92938"></A>
<P class=wp-caption-text><EM>Coca-Cola’s use of
healthcare professionals to market its products used to
be more overt.</EM></P></DIV>
<P>Readers of <STRONG>USA Today</STRONG>, the <STRONG>LA
Times</STRONG> and <STRONG>Atlantic Monthly</STRONG>
might expect that prominent university professors quoted
as independent experts on obesity would relay objective
information based on the best science. They would be
wrong.</P>
<P>Over the past few months, through excellent
investigative work, journalists Anahad O’Connor and
Candice Choi unmasked a scheme that should look <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c1b0acaf52&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c1b0acaf52&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>familiar</A> to anyone following health
and environmental news: corporations paying front groups
and scientists to spin the media and public in order to
protect their products.</P>
<P>In this latest example, Coca-Cola—facing <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=af94a6ff9a&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=af94a6ff9a&e=c9c3a92938">slipping
sales</A> and increasing pressure to regulate its
products that are <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=e94a12aaac&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=e94a12aaac&e=c9c3a92938">fueling</A>
the <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=43b04d4a4d&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=43b04d4a4d&e=c9c3a92938">nation’s</A>
<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=f404050883&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=f404050883&e=c9c3a92938">obesity</A>
<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=106eca9b0e&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=106eca9b0e&e=c9c3a92938">epidemic</A>—launched
a new front group led by prominent professors. As
O’Connor reported in the <STRONG>New York Times</STRONG>
(<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=6147ce49da&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=6147ce49da&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>8/9/15</A>):</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Coca-Cola, <SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">the world’s
largest producer of sugary beverages</SPAN>, <SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626">is backing a new
“science-based” solution to the obesity crisis: To
maintain a healthy weight, get more exercise and worry
less about cutting calories.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">The beverage giant has
teamed up with influential scientists who are
advancing this message in medical journals, at
conferences and through social media. To help the
scientists get the word out, Coke has provided
financial and logistical support to a new nonprofit
organization called the Global Energy Balance Network,
which promotes the argument that weight-conscious
Americans are overly fixated on how much they eat and
drink while not paying enough attention to
exercise.</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">This despite evidence
that exercise, while beneficial for other reasons,
by itself has </SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2960be248f&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2960be248f&e=c9c3a92938">minimal
impact</A> <SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">on weight. But
as we’ve seen </SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=94b2fa77f9&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=94b2fa77f9&e=c9c3a92938">again</A><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626"> and </SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=a1d614ddec&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=a1d614ddec&e=c9c3a92938">again</A><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626">, facts and science don’t matter
when it comes to protecting corporate profits.
</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">In the case of Global
Energy Balance Network, Coke funded the group to the
tune of $1.5 million and claimed minimal involvement.
However, as Choi </SPAN>reported<SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626"> for the <STRONG>Associated
Press</STRONG> (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=f4e844665d&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=f4e844665d&e=c9c3a92938">11/24/15</A>),
</SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2bac0ca68a&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2bac0ca68a&e=c9c3a92938">internal
emails</A><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626"> show that Coke
executives were actually heavily involved: “They helped
pick the group’s leaders, edited its mission statement
and suggested articles and videos for its website.” The
<STRONG>Times</STRONG> pointed out that “the network’s
website, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=3e11437b35&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=3e11437b35&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>gebn.org</A>, is registered to Coca-Cola
headquarters in Atlanta, and the company is also listed
as the site’s administrator.”<BR></SPAN></P>
<DIV id=attachment_5576095 class="wp-caption alignright"
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; WIDTH: 325px; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=d417a824a2&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=d417a824a2&e=c9c3a92938"></A>
<P class=wp-caption-text><EM>Coke-funded academic James
O. Hill wants people to see Coke as “a company that
brings important and fun things to them.”</EM></P></DIV>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">The investigation
revealed that Coke was also providing substantial
funding to the two professors who led the </SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=45e5b2c575&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=45e5b2c575&e=c9c3a92938">now-collapsed</A><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626"> front group: the president
</SPAN>James O. Hill and vice president Steven N.
Blair.</P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">James O. Hill is a
professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University
of Colorado and director of their Center for Human
Nutrition. According to emails uncovered by
<STRONG>AP</STRONG>, </SPAN>Hill <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=bf7079ff14&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=bf7079ff14&e=c9c3a92938">wrote
privately</A> to a Coca-Cola executive:</P>
<P style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626">I want to help your company avoid
the image of being a problem in peoples’ lives and back
to being a company that brings important and fun things
to them.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">In 2014, Coca-Cola gave
an “unrestricted monetary gift” of $1 million to the
University of Colorado Foundation “for the purposes of
funding” the Global Energy Balance Network, according to
the </SPAN><STRONG>Times</STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626">.<BR></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">According
to </SPAN><STRONG>AP</STRONG>:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">Since 2010, Coke said
it gave $550,000 to Hill that was unrelated to the
[Global Energy Balance Network] group. A big part of
that was research he and others were involved with,
but the figure also covers travel expenses and fees
for speaking engagements and other
work.</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">Steven N. Blair is a
professor at the Arnold School of Public Health, in the
departments of exercise science and epidemiology and
biostatistics at the University of South Carolina.
He announced the Global Energy Balance Network with the
following “misleading” claim, according to the
</SPAN><STRONG>Times</STRONG>:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">Most of the focus in
the popular media and in the scientific press is,
<SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">“</SPAN>Oh they’re eating
too much, eating too much, eating too much<SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626">”</SPAN> — blaming fast food,
blaming sugary drinks and so on…. And there’s really
virtually no compelling evidence that that, in fact,
is the cause.</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">He also received more
than $3.5 million in funding from Coke for research
projects since 2008, the </SPAN><STRONG>Times</STRONG>
reported.</P>
<H3
style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; DISPLAY: block; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626"><B>Go-To Sources for Media
</B></SPAN></H3>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">Coca-Cola’s vision for
Global Energy Balance Network, <STRONG>AP
</STRONG></SPAN>reported<SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">,
was for the group to “</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626">quickly establish itself as the
place the media goes to for comment on any obesity
issue.” </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">The front group was
well-positioned to achieve that vision, since professors
Hill and Blair were already well established as experts
on obesity. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">An </SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=a8bb107323&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=a8bb107323&e=c9c3a92938">analysis
of media coverage</A><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626"> by
Gary Ruskin, my co-director at US Right to Know, found
</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">30 news articles
quoting Hill or Blair, written after they received
funding from Coca-Cola, in which journalists failed to
disclose this funding.<BR></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">The articles appeared in
influential outlets, including the </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: #262626"><STRONG>New York Times</STRONG>,
<STRONG>Washington Post</STRONG>, <STRONG>LA
Times</STRONG>, <STRONG>USA Today</STRONG>,
<STRONG>Boston Globe</STRONG>, <STRONG>Atlantic
Monthly</STRONG>, <STRONG>US News & World
Report</STRONG>, <STRONG>Newsweek</STRONG> and
<STRONG>NPR</STRONG>. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">In one
example</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">, a 2014
<STRONG>LA Times</STRONG> story (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c17cfdc4aa&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c17cfdc4aa&e=c9c3a92938">5/9/14</A>)
by Mary MacVean</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">,
</SPAN>Hill is featured as the voice of criticism for
the documentary <EM><A title=#/page/home
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="mip://0e4a1ea8/default.html#/page/home">Fed
Up</A></EM>.</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">“It’s a very myopic
view of how obesity develops, and it offers no real
solutions,” was the assessment of James O. Hill, a
pediatrics and medicine professor at the University of
Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Hill said that
he objected to the lack of attention to physical
activity in the film and that the assessment of
caloric sweeteners as the major problem in Americans’
diets was mistaken.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">“I’m not arguing that
the food environment is unimportant. I’m not arguing
sugar is not important,” Hill said. “I think the food
industry has some responsibility,” but he believes the
food industry and scientists need to join forces to
find solutions. </SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">The pattern is typical
of Hill’s quotes in the media: comments about the
importance of physical activity over diet as the key to
weight loss, with no mention of funding from Coca-Cola.
</SPAN></P>
<H3
style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; DISPLAY: block; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><STRONG>‘Rent-a-Scientist’</STRONG></H3>
<DIV id=attachment_5576094 class="wp-caption alignright"
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; WIDTH: 360px; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9d5c5c88a2&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9d5c5c88a2&e=c9c3a92938"></A>
<P class=wp-caption-text><EM>Image: USRTK</EM></P></DIV>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">The Coke story is just
the latest “Rent-a-Scientist” example of corporations
quietly paying professors who appear in the media as
independent experts, pushing points of view that happen
to benefit the corporations from which they take money.
</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">Earlier this month, a
</SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=163d2ead61&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=163d2ead61&e=c9c3a92938">Greenpeace
sting operation</A><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626"> caught
Princeton professor William Happer and Penn State
professor emeritus Frank Clemente agreeing to take
corporate cash (and conceal the payments) to write
papers extolling the benefits of coal and carbon
emissions.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">That scandal followed
the revelation that Wei-Hock Soon, a scientist at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims
global warming can be explained by variations in the
sun’s energy, described his work as “deliverables” for
corporate funders, as Justin Gillis and John Schwartz
reported in the </SPAN><STRONG>New York
Times</STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626"> (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c9a0070e69&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c9a0070e69&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>2/21/15</A>)<BR></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">In September, emails
</SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9936963486&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9936963486&e=c9c3a92938">obtained
by my group</A><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626"> US Right to
Know linked Monsanto money to two professors who
frequently appear in the media as independent experts on
GMOs, as Eric Lipton reported in the </SPAN><STRONG>New
York Times</STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626"> (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9ddf3ca59c&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9ddf3ca59c&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>9/5/15</A>).</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">A </SPAN><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=1d63e421c8&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=1d63e421c8&e=c9c3a92938">media
analysis</A><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626"> on that issue
found 28 media stories quoting or written by
</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">University of
Florida professor Kevin Folta or University of Illinois
professor emeritus Bruce Chassy after they received
Monsanto funding, but without disclosing the
funding.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">All these cases
highlight that reporters need to do a better job
researching their sources and disclosing the financial
ties between corporations and academics. As Ruskin wrote
for US Right to Know (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2fd176cc7f&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2fd176cc7f&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>12/14/15</A>):<BR></SPAN></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">If a professor takes
money from one of these soda companies, that is
crucial context for their views on obesity, and
journalists disserve their readers by failing to
report it. Readers need to know who pays sources to
evaluate the legitimacy and biases of these sources.
</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #262626">The net effect of
quoting these professors without disclosing their
Coca-Cola funding is to unfairly enhance their
credibility, while undermining the credibility of
public health and consumer
advocates.</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<HR>
<P><I>Stacy Malkan is co-director of <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=a1bacd0ba1&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=a1bacd0ba1&e=c9c3a92938">US
Right to Know</A>, a nonprofit consumer group. She is
also the author of </I><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=99fc531f39&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=99fc531f39&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of
the Beauty Industry</A><I>.</I></P>
<P><EM>Read the original post <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=07f67f3518&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=07f67f3518&e=c9c3a92938">here</A>.</EM></P></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Module: Standard Content \\ --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Template Body \\ --></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=center><!-- // Begin Template Footer \\ -->
<TABLE id=templateFooter
style="BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fdfdfd" cellSpacing=0
cellPadding=10 width=600 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD class=footerContent vAlign=top><!-- // Begin Module: Standard Footer \\ -->
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD id=social
style="BORDER-TOP: #f5f5f5 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #f5f5f5 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #f5f5f5 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #f5f5f5 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fafafa"
vAlign=middle colSpan=2>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #707070; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 125%"><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9544fade2e&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9544fade2e&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>FAIR's Website</A><BR><BR>FAIR counts on
your support to do this work — <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=5365edb41a&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=5365edb41a&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>please donate today</A>.<BR><BR> <A
title="http://Twitter Account not yet Authorized"
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="mip://0e4a1ea8/Twitter Account not yet Authorized">Follow
on Twitter</A> | <A title=#
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="mip://0e4a1ea8/default.html#">Friend on
Facebook</A> | <A
title=http://us10.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=67b03e588c&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://us10.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=67b03e588c&e=c9c3a92938">Forward
to a Friend</A> </DIV></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top width=370><BR>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #707070; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 125%"><EM>Copyright
© 2015 Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, All rights
reserved.</EM> <BR><!--
-->You are receiving this email because you signed up
for email alerts from Fairness & Accuracy In
Reporting. <BR><STRONG>Our mailing address is:</STRONG>
<BR>
<DIV class=vcard><SPAN class="org fn">Fairness &
Accuracy In Reporting</SPAN>
<DIV class=adr>
<DIV class=street-address>124 W. 30th Street, Suite
201</DIV><SPAN class=locality>New York</SPAN>, <SPAN
class=region>NY</SPAN> <SPAN
class=postal-code>10001</SPAN></DIV><BR><A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8cf7adc7d2
class=hcard-download
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8cf7adc7d2">Add
us to your address book</A></DIV><BR><!--
--></DIV><BR></TD>
<TD id=monkeyRewards vAlign=top width=170><BR>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #707070; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 125%"></DIV><BR></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD id=utility
style="BORDER-TOP: #f5f5f5 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fdfdfd"
vAlign=middle colSpan=2>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #707070; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 125%"> <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8cf7adc7d2&e=c9c3a92938&c=67b03e588c
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8cf7adc7d2&e=c9c3a92938&c=67b03e588c">unsubscribe
from this list</A> | <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/profile?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8cf7adc7d2&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/profile?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8cf7adc7d2&e=c9c3a92938">update
subscription preferences</A><!--
--> | <A
title=http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=67b03e588c&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=67b03e588c&e=c9c3a92938">view
email in browser</A><!--
--> </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Module: Standard Footer \\ --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Template Footer \\ --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
<DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><IMG
src="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=67b03e588c&e=c9c3a92938"
width=1 height=1> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>