2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 19 Dec 2004 20:17:01 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] perchlorate story re-writtten
 
Controversy cut from news story

Reporter's article on perchlorate study was modified, deleting details of controversy


By DAVID DANELSKI Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA) December 19, 2004


When nationally known science writer Rebecca Renner opened the September 2002 issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, she found her article about perchlorate drastically rewritten.


Gone was the context and controversy about the rocket-fuel chemical that has polluted drinking-water supplies, milk, lettuce and other foods.

"It was outrageous," she said.

Renner, who had been assigned to write a news story about a study of 37 healthy adults exposed to perchlorate, didn't learn who helped make the changes to her article until last week.

The study's co-author, a paid consultant for the perchlorate industry, had assisted one of the journal's editors in rewriting Renner's work.

The editing work was described in a letter from the consultant's boss to the Perchlorate Study Group, a consortium of perchlorate consumers and producers. The letter sought compensation for "editing the EHP news article (Renner, 2002)."



For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_edited19.5824b.html


-- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org

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