One of the world's top bee scientists has been
suspended for publishing research on bee-killing pesticides.
Jonathan Lundgren was an award-winning scientist for 11 years with the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. But once he started publishing data linking
pesticides to bee and butterfly die-offs, he was ordered to stop talking.
When he refused, he was suspended.
Now Jonathan is fighting back. He's filed a whistleblower complaint
to make sure that corporations can't get away with gagging science.
This isn't the first time we've seen corporate-influenced
governments trying to silence bee scientists.
In the U.K., the government silenced scientists who disagreed with a decision to
lift a ban on bee-killing pesticides. Big Ag lobbyists wanted the ban lifted, but
when the scientists wouldn't go along with it, the government
simply told them not to publish their views.
But this time the corporations picked on the wrong scientist.
Jonathan Lundgren is refusing to back down.
Now a judge has ruled that Jonathan's whistleblower complaint may go forward --
meaning he has a real chance of getting justice and showing how corporations
are exerting undue influence over government research.
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