Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity

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44. Okay,

First, the Protocol is hard to locate on Google because we use English and the Protocols tend to be replicated over the internet in the language of whatever country the scientist is in. So in France, maybe the term to look for would be "Protocole International," etc.

One of the main provisions of the International Protocol happens to be that the
"ludicrous" factor is not allowed. My "mercury replaced by formaldehyde" study I keep referring to in this forum is one example. A study done overseas has to be logically meaningful. If the parameters are nonsensical, the study is not allowed.

The cherry picking of data, so pervasive inside US research labs, is not allowed. So we have these big American companies that are doing studies to prove their pesticide is "safe" and they simply toss out data that would cause some amount of concern over the product's safety. That is not just frowned on overseas - it ends up costing a company found guilty of doing this some huge fines.

The American companies don't even abide by the terms of US Code rules and coda regarding ethics and data participants. Remember a few years back (maybe ten years ago?) when Sen Barbara Boxer went on a full scale attack as she had found out that a company in Florida was offering video cam recorders to families willing to have their living quarters sprayed with their "safe" products. Then all the people had to do wa to record the health of their children over a two year time period. Since chem components found in insecticides are often carcinogenic, and such chems don't cause the cancer for many years, the company doing this thought they'd get away with it, and perhaps they would have, but anti-pesticide activists called the Senator's office and she got the practice to stop.

One last comment: in most foreign countries, when a product is to be evaluated by the government, it is actual governmental researchers that evaluate the product. It is not possible for Monsanto to tell some governmental agency in another country what is or isn't in the product. The nation's alb does a gas spectrometry evaluation of the product and doesn't allow the company to make up what it wants to tell the government.