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If you have a favorable SourceWatch profile: there’s a good chance you are a crank

Anonymous fans of cranks and crankery write nice profiles of anti-vaxxers and germ-theory deniers

5 min readMar 1, 2023

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How #organic crops can crash — and still never fail

Despite massive failures and extensive fraud, people still think some miracle of smaller yields will save the planet

8 min readJan 5, 2022

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How #organic crops can crash — and still never fail

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Organic fraud confirmed [again]

An industry rife with misinformation, grifting credulous consumers

2 min readJul 2, 2022

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Organic fraud confirmed [again]

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British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the anti-vax grifters driving their cred into the ground

I know — your first question is: which one this time?

9 min readMar 1, 2022

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British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the anti-vax grifters driving their cred into the ground

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Crankosphere: manipulating the media discourse, part one

When they can’t win on the science and in the legitimate journals, they write books and do films to connect their claims with red string…

8 min readNov 30, 2021

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Crankosphere: manipulating the media discourse, part one

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Support the Restoration of the American Chestnut

This comment has been submitted to the petition for the approval of the chestnut in the APHIS system. But it might take a couple of days…

6 min readOct 16, 2020

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Support the Restoration of the American Chestnut

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Duped by SourceWatch

Even an “investigative journalist” can’t tell truth from fiction at the site. How can the general public?

5 min readFeb 18, 2020

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Duped by SourceWatch

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Top 5 Craziest Biotech Stories of 2019

Some seasonal snark from Team Science to help you usher in the new year

5 min readDec 19, 2019

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Top 5 Craziest Biotech Stories of 2019

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MAPOLI: “Heed the Science”

Massachusetts politicians are being inundated by misinformers; we need to add voices of support for vaccination requirements

3 min readDec 6, 2019

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MAPOLI: “Heed the Science”

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Full Transparency: I am Paul Thacker’s Fantasy Spy

And how a reporter gave a woman scientist’s information to her top abuser

8 min readOct 1, 2019

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Full Transparency: I am Paul Thacker’s Fantasy Spy

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mem_somerville

Mary Mangan PhD is a genomics scientist, with credentials in microbiology, immunology, plant cell biology, and and molecular biology.

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