Re: Reader Beware: Glyphosate_Suppression_of_Cytochrome

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In Agriculture the buzzword for years now has been "sustainable agriculture," which is often linked with "no-till" farming.
  I once saw a no-till rig being set up, for planting barley. There were cutters and seeders etc. and also the biggest tank of Roundup I've ever seen....and I mean big, like a 10,000 gallon tank!
Obviously the whole rig had huge tires and was pulled by a monster tractor.
  When I was an Ag student, a long time ago, the professors used to routinely mock me for being so interested in organic gardening. Now they're all into sustainable, and from what I've seen of it, it is an interesting mix of organic farming along with massive amounts of Roundup.
  As for those peer-reviewed "science journals"......I am routinely asked to write for these things, and I'd be happy to do so, except that they generally charge you $2,000 (or more) to publish your article, even in just an on-line version. Money talks. Be skeptical, very much so.

Tom Ogren
San Luis Obispo

-----Original Message-----
>From: loisdan@juno.com
>Sent: Apr 29, 2013 12:27 PM
>To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [GWL] Reader Beware: Glyphosate_Suppression_of_Cytochrome
>
>Jeff and Duane,
>
>I just read this article
>http://www.nature.com/news/investigating-journals-the-dark-side-of-publis
>hing-1.12666 the other day and am appalled to find out that legitimate
>researchers are being duped into paying to be included in
>not-so-peer-reviewed "science journals." Similarly, it appears that
>anyone with any agenda can get published in certain open access journals,
>or create his/her own.
>
>This is very distressing to garden communicators who are trying to
>present science-based articles on sustainable gardening practices to the
>general public. Talk about a fact-checking nightmare! If the scientists
>don't even know that their work has not really been subject to
>peer-review, then how are we to figure that out?
>
>Regards,
>Lois
>
>On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:42:41 -0400 "Duane Campbell" <dcamp911@gmail.com>
>writes:
>> You might also want to look at:
>> 
>>
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tamar-haspel/condemning-monsanto-with-_b_31
>62694.html
>> 
>> If MDPI articles are peer reviewed, they do it awfully fast.  And 
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