1.Monsanto goes after peer reviewers
2.AGENT ORANGE VICTIMS SUE MONSANTO
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1.SPIN OF THE DAY: We're Here, We're Peers, Get Used to It
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/November_2004.html
"More than 20 chemical companies," including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, "have taken the unusual step of issuing subpoenas to five peer reviewers of a scholarly book." The book, "Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution," presents evidence that, "in the late 1960s and early '70s, chemical-industry leaders failed to inform the government about a link that had been found in experiments with rats between exposure to a chemical called vinyl chloride monomer and cancer." The director of the University of California Press, which published the book, called the companies' actions "really pretty sleazy. ... They're trying to discredit the peer-review process." Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education (reg. req'd.), November 5, 2004
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2.WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH:
AGENT ORANGE VICTIMS SUE MONSANTO
By Tom Fawthrop
Vietnamese Association of Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) filed a class action law suit in a New York court, against Monsanto and 36 other manufacturers of Agent Orange. Today in Vietnam, there are 150,000 other children, whose parents allege their birth defects are the result of exposure to Agent Orange during the war, or the consumption of
dioxin-contaminated food and water since 1975.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11638