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Jon Entine
Entine in 2008
Born (1952-04-30) April 30, 1952 (age 71)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)Science journalist, consultant

Jon Entine (born April 30, 1952) is an American science journalist. After working as a network news writer and producer for NBC News and ABC News, Entine moved into print journalism. Entine has written seven books and is a contributing columnist to newspapers and magazines. He is the founder and executive director of the science advocacy group the Genetic Literacy Project, and a former visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.[1] He is also the founder of the consulting company ESG Mediametrics.[2][3]

Background

Entine was born in

Hartford, Connecticut, in 1974[6] with a B.A. in philosophy.[citation needed
]

Television

In high school, Entine worked as a weekend copyboy for the

Nightline. He took a leave of absence from ABC News in 1981–1982 to study at the University of Michigan under a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in journalism.[citation needed
]

Entine joined

Miss America Pageant, "Miss America: Beyond the Crown" for NBC Entertainment.[citation needed
]

Body Shop controversy

In September 1994, Entine wrote an investigative article titled "Shattered Image: Is The Body Shop Too Good to Be True?" The article caused an international controversy and led to articles in

management ethics studies.[12][13]

Genetic Literacy Project

Entine is the executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), an organization he founded.

labeling GMO foods.[20][21] In a Financial Times article, the Genetic Literacy Project site was described as a provider of information on genomics that is not readily accessible to the general public.[22]

Accusations of being a Monsanto front group

US Right to Know, an advocacy group funded in large part by the Organic Consumers Association,[23][24] raised concerns after the GLP ran a series of articles in 2014 supportive of crop biotechnology after the scientists had been encouraged to do so by American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto.[25] The GLP said the authors were not paid for their articles. Entine remarked that he had total control of the editing process and that there was nothing to disclose.[25]

In 2020 and 2021 the GLP received US$741,183 and US$494,075 in donations, respectively.[26]

Books

Entine has written three books on genetics and two on chemicals. Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution examines the controversy over genetic modification in agriculture.[citation needed]

Entine's first book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It was inspired by the documentary on black athletes written with Brokaw in 1989.[27] It received reviews ranging from mostly positive to highly negative in The New York Times.[27][28][29] Physical anthropologist Jonathan Marks characterized the book as "make-believe genetics applied to naively conceptualized groups of people."[29]

In 2007, Entine published Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People which examined the shared ancestry of Jews, Christians and Muslims, and addressed the question "Who is a Jew?" as seen through the prism of DNA. In a review of this book, geneticist Harry Ostrer wrote that Entine's "understanding of the genetics is limited and uncritical, but his broad, well-documented sweep of Jewish history will inform even the most knowledgeable of readers."[30]

Organizational affiliations

He was previously senior research fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University where he began in 2011[31] and at GMU's STATS (Statistical Assessment Service).[32]

Entine joined the conservative

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research as an adjunct scholar in 2002 and was subsequently a visiting scholar.[citation needed] His research focuses on science and society and corporate sustainability. AEI Press has published three books written and edited by Entine: Crop Chemophobia
: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?, which analyzes the impact of chemicals in agriculture; Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing, which focuses on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds; and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture, which examined the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming.

As of 2016, Entine was a senior fellow at the Institute Food and Agricultural Literacy at

University of California Davis.[1]

In 2012 when asked about affiliations between the agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto and his consulting company ESG Mediametrics, Entine said, "Nine years ago, I did a $2000 research project for v-Fluence, a social media company formed by former Monsanto executives. That's the entirety of my Monsanto relationship."[3]

Bibliography

  • Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It, 2000,
    ISBN 1-58648-026-X
  • Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing, 2005,
    ISBN 0-8447-4218-X
  • Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health, 2011,
    ISBN 978-0-578-07561-7
  • Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution, 2006,
    ISBN 0-8447-4200-7
  • Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People, 2008,
    ISBN 0-446-58063-5
  • No Crime But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extrajudicial Prosecution, 2009,
    ISBN 978-0-692-00282-7
  • Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? 2011,
    ISBN 978-0-8447-4361-5

References

  1. ^ a b "Gary Ruskin and Jon Entine Tangle over the GMO Corporate Connection". Corporate Crime Reporter. 29 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Jon Entine". ESG Mediametrics. Archived from the original on February 12, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Philpott, Tom (February 24, 2012). "The Making of an Agribusiness Apologist". Mother Jones.
  4. ^ Entine, Jon (March–April 2008). "Is DNA Abolishing Differences or Embracing Them?". Ancestry Magazine. pp. 42, 44.
  5. ISBN 9780446408394
    .
  6. ^ Finkelstein, James (December 1974). "Class Notes: 74". Trinity Reporter. Hartford, CT. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
  7. ^ Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport, by Michael Oriard, Univ of North Carolina Press, 2007, pg. 224.
  8. ISBN 9780805837674
    .
  9. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
    . Winter 2001. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  10. ^ Posner, Richard (10 January 1995). "Desnick v. American Broadcasting Corporation". FindLaw.com. 94–2399. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  11. ^ Dixon, Cyril (August 28, 1994). "Besieged Body Shop comes out fighting". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  12. ISBN 9781285734293
    . Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  13. ^ "The Body Shop(A): Anita Roddick's Green Brand?". IBS Case Development Centre. ENT0019C. 2006. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  14. ^ Sentenac, Hannah (2014-03-11). "GMO salmon may soon hit food stores, but will anyone buy it?". Fox News. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  15. ^ a b "Mission, Financial Transparency, Governorship". genetic literacy project. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  16. ^ Richardson, Hillary. "LibGuides: Public Health Research Guide: Genetics and Health". libguides.muw.edu. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  17. ^ "Five myths about gene editing". Washington Post. August 25, 2017.
  18. ^ Anthes, Emily (9 March 2013). "Don't Be Afraid of Genetic Modification". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  19. ^ "GMO FAQS". Genetic Literacy Project. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  20. ^ Revkin, Andrew (November 2013). "A Risk Communicator Says Industry Should Embrace Labeling of Genetically Modified Food". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2020-02-26. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  21. ^ Van Hoewyk, Doug (October 23, 2015). "If GMOs are safe, why aren't they labeled? Straight answer to a valid question". Genetic Literacy Project. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  22. ^ "The secret genomic revolution". Financial Times. March 27, 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  23. PMID 26448065
    .
  24. ^ Lipton, Eric (2015-09-05). "Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show". New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  25. ^ a b Kaskey, Jack (2 October 2015). "How Monsanto mobilized academics to pen articles supporting GMOs". Chicago Tribune.

    The [Genetic Literacy Project] said that such a disclosure isn't necessary because [Monsanto] didn't pay the authors and wasn't involved in writing or editing the articles.

    I got independent articles written by independent professors," Entine said [. . .]. "I ended up working with the professors to edit their pieces and I had total control over the final product. There is nothing to disclose.
  26. ^ Genetic Literacy Project (2021). "Genetic Literacy Project - Annual Report 2021". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  27. ^ a b Nobody Does It Better: A journalist looks at the sensitive issue of how black athletes came to rule American sports, by Jim Holt, New York Times, April 16, 2000.
  28. ^ Bernstein, Richard (January 14, 2000). "Books of the Times: The race to the swift. Or is it the swift to the race?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  29. ^ a b Marks, Jonathan (8 April 2000). "A feckless quest for a basketball gene". The New York Times.
  30. S2CID 28651435
    .
  31. ^ "Founding CHRC Faculty Scholars". [The Center for Health and Risk Communication. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  32. ^ "STATS - Staff". George Mason University. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.

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