NRDC Blogger Knows Little About Science, But Knows How To Smear

By ACSH Staff — Mar 01, 2012
Jennifer Sass can't face off against the American Council on Science and Health, or any expert, when it comes to science, so she has taken to her blog yet again to say anyone who supports science must be a paid shill, this time from the pesticide manufacturer Syngenta.

Jennifer Sass can't face off against the American Council on Science and Health, or any expert, when it comes to science, so she has taken to her blog yet again to say anyone who supports science must be a paid shill, this time from the pesticide manufacturer Syngenta. Since that is not enough red meat for the partisan foundations, political action committees and corporations funding the NRDC's $100 million-per-year operation, she makes sure to throw in that one member of Council team, a medical doctor, went to jail decades ago for signing a piece of paper a week later than he should have.

Then she toots her own horn, saying she causes the pesticide manufacturer "grief." In reality, she causes eye rolls, because she never talks about science, it is all conjecture, manufactured controversy using an unethical public relations company, conspiracy theory and ad hominem. Her work is just one blog post like this after another.

Here is her astute science commentary from the last time the EPA held a public hearing on the pesticide she thinks is turning boy frogs into girl frogs, despite everyone at the EPA saying there is zero evidence of that:

"Again, the toxicology is really very expert, and you know that, and you've heard from the experts actually. So in a lot of them, I just say that I don't have an answer for that and I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with" before she then rambles on claiming that, though she just admitted she has no expertise, she is really, really sure it must be a human carcinogen, because NRDC pays her a six-figure income to waste the time of real scientists saying it is.