Activists misuse open records requests to harass researchers
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 07:50
in Mathematics & Economics
This winter, Kevin Folta, a plant molecular biologist with the University of Florida's (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), became the target of a sweeping public records request from US Right to Know, an activist group that seeks to expose what it calls "the failures of the corporate food system," after answering questions on a website called GMO Answers.