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Bt pesticide resistance
Gordon Couger wrote:
Elaine has no connation with Oregon State University other than a courtesy card giving her library privileges and one professor allows her to use his equipment, Then do you think this is wrong? Linkname: DR ELAINE INGHAM URL: http://www.westnet.com.au/satlink/KA...ham%202003.htm size: 495 lines [...] In 1986, Elaine moved to Oregon State University, and joined the faculty in both Forest Science and Botany and Plant Pathology. For several years, Elaine's "home" department was Botany and Plant Pathology. In 1991,because the number of samples from outside Elaine's immediate program being sent to her for analysis were becoming a large component of what she was doing, Elaine opened a service through the University called the Soil Microbial Biomass Service. The Service offered researchers and commercial clients the ability to have soil samples analyzed for soil foodweb organisms. During this time, Elaine became known as an energetic and easy-to-understand speaker who explained what life in the soil was all about, and she started speaking to groups throughout the United States about the Soil Foodweb. By 1995, the number of samples coming into the Soil Microbial Biomass Service was close to 8,000 samples a year, and the amount of lab space required to process this number of samples was greater than originally planned. The head of Elaine's department asked that the commercial portion of the Biomass Service be taken off-campus. Thus, in the fall of 1996, Soil Foodweb Inc. became a commercial enterprise. With the move into a private lab, Elaine's focus turned more to grower-related issues, focusing on the expense of intensive chemical use as well as the damage these chemicals inflict on beneficial organisms in the soil and on foliage. The research and practical understanding and application of soil organisms continue at Soil Foodweb Inc., while much of the academic side of her work remains at the University. In December 2000 a new Soil Foodweb lab was opened in Australia, at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia so that growers down-under could have overnight access to the assays they need to improve plant production without the use of high levels of inorganic chemicals. The Lab Director at the Australia lab is Merline Olson, Certified Soil Foodweb Advisor. [...] her paper was not published until after the fact, what the EPA calls peer review does not meet the standards of any other peer reviewed journal It was peer reviewed first by teh journal it was published and later by EPA for their purposes. and the results claimed by statistics used in the paper were not supported by the data in the paper according to 3 professors that teach statistics. Do you have a ref for that please? |
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