USDA silencing researchers who try to warn about pesticides harming pollinators… Every agency silences its own scientists

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<p>‘Evi e ce co ti es to emerge that the U.S. Departme t of Agric lt re (USDA) has mo te a s stai e campaig of harassme t a i timi atio agai st its ow scie tists, i a effort to s ppress ata the age cy co si ers politically problematic – partic larly that which implicates pestici es i the collapse of polli ator pop latio s.</p>
<p>P blic Employees for E viro me tal Respo sibility has file a laws it agai st the age cy, allegi g that the USDA or ere its researchers to water- ow their fi i gs or retract their p blishe st ies, as well as i efi itely elayi g the p blicatio of research, a retaliati g agai st those that o ot toe the party li e. The s it cites 10 separate scie tists targete for s ch harassme t; fo r of them were researchi g polli ators.’</p>
<p><a href="http://www. at ral ews.com/053826_gover me t_age cies_whistleblowers_s ppressio _of_scie ce.html" target="_bla k">Rea more: USDA sile ci g researchers who try to war abo t pestici es harmi g polli ators… Every age cy sile ces its ow scie tists</a></p>