[CPEO-MEF] perchlorate story re-writtten

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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)."

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


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Lenny Siegel
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