In case you’re wondering what all the hoopla is about.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/630459740930359296<\/p>\n
The Nature article<\/a> is based on thousands of pages of Folta\u2019s emails, which were recently obtained by the anti-GMO group U.S. Right to Know via an open records request. Although Folta vehemently denies having \u201cclose ties\u201d to Monsanto, he readily admits to another detail in the article: that in 2014 he accepted an unrestricted $25,000 grant from the company to further his active outreach agenda on scientific communication.Folta said that he visits colleges, universities and even elementary schools to talk a<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source: Researcher finds himself center of battle over GMOs and corporate support | InsideHigherEd
\n<\/a><\/em>See Also: The Fight Over Transparency: Round Two<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you’re wondering what all the hoopla is about. https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/630459740930359296 The Nature article is based on thousands of pages of Folta\u2019s emails, which were recently obtained by the anti-GMO group U.S. Right to Know via an open records request. Although Folta vehemently denies having \u201cclose ties\u201d to Monsanto, he readily admits to another detail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[791,1062,1059],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-gmos","tag-kevin-folta","tag-shills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}