Benbrook is well-known to be a consistent, ideological, ineducable and disingenuous antagonist of genetic engineering.
Benbrook omits any discussion of these issues or of alternative parameters to measure environmental impact.
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Benbrook makes assumptions relating to herbicide use on U.S. crops that are inconsistent with actual (or recommended) practice.
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The data on which Benbrook relied do not, in fact, support his conclusions.
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This most recent Benbrook article would likely have failed peer review by the vast majority of experts in this field.
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Attempting to lend verisimilitude to his analysis, Benbrook states repeatedly that his analysis is based on official, government (USDA) pesticide usage data.
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The latest salvo in the GM wars was launched by professor Benbrook.
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News coverage of the Benbrook study was motley and often highly politicized.
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From his new perch in academia, Benbrook has sought credibility by managing to get one of his ideological screeds into a peer-reviewed journal.
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While he did use a USDA dataset, its limitations required Benbrook to rely on his interpretations of herbicide application, which as discussed above, are inaccurate.
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Worst of all is Pollack's unprofessional decision to quote Charles Benbrook, a paid advocate of organic food and farming (both of which specifically reject genetic engineering).
In an e-mail to CNN.com, Jean Sherwin of Benbrook, Texas, expressed outrage that the liberal group MoveOn.org challenged Petraeus' veracity in a Monday advertisement in The New York Times.
In fact, there have been numerous analyses by other researchers that have examined this issue in peer reviewed papers, a fact apparently missed by both Benbrook and the peer-reviewers of his manuscript.
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While at his previous position at the U.S. Organic Center, which is ideologically and intractably (and irrationally) opposed to genetic engineering, Benbrook authored many other papers with similar claims about genetic engineering.
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According to Benbrook, the negative effects of genetic engineering have resulted from the widespread adoption by farmers of crops such as corn and soybean engineered to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate.
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Former University of California Davis scientist Steve Savage, who had nice things to say about Benbrook, put the organic advocates claims in a different perspective, and reached a far different conclusion.
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In the press release for his article, Benbrook claimed that his was the first peer-reviewed paper to examine changes in pesticide use due to the cultivation of genetically engineered crops in the United States.
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He is wrong on all counts and, as with other false alarms about the hazards of genetic engineering sounded in recent years, there is both more and less to the Benbrook story than meets the eye.
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Benbrook also fails to mention that by improving weed control and reducing the need for ploughing, genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant crops enable many farmers in North and South America to adopt and maintain no- or reduced-tillage production systems, which results in important reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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