(NaturalNews) A hilarious new
parody story on NewsParody.com carries the announcement: "University of Florida announces SALE on academic scientists: buy one, get one FREE!"
University of Florida President Kent Fuchs promised Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and other chemical giants “direct influence over our university scientists and the academic credibility that comes with them.” He explained that University of Florida scientists are ready to serve as “on-call puppets” for whichever corporations provide the requested “unrestricted grants” to the university and its professors.
When accused of dignifying bribery and payola in academia, Fuchs insisted, “Bribes aren’t bribes if we call them unrestricted grants.”The article refers to the
Kevin Folta scandal, where Univ. of Florida scientist Kevin Folta, an apologist for GMOs and an attack dog against clean food activists, was
exposed for having secret financial ties to Monsanto. He lied about having such ties, repeatedly insisting that he was an "independent" scientist who just happened to promote GMOs, all while "volunteering" to post biotech propaganda to the
GMO Answers website.
The New York Times helped break the story and exposed some of Folta's emails, but other media outlets like
The Atlantic were
scammed by Kevin Folta and have still failed to correct their published articles to reflect Folta's exposed financial ties.
The University of Florida has so far utterly failed to discipline Kevin Folta and even appears to welcome the practice of selling its scientists to the biotech industry. Money talks, as they say, and "science walks."
Click here to read the full parody article on NewsParody.com.
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