The legal attack hit Kevin Folta in early February. After receiving a FOIA request from US Right to Know---a nonprofit dedicated to exposing "the failures of the corporate food system"---the ...

A federal judge yesterday ruled in favor of the New York Times Co. — and the role of the Fourth Estate more broadly — in a defamation case brought by University of Florida horticultural sciences ...

A scientist named Kevin Folta at the University of Florida has been one of a broader group of public researchers who have come under hostile, Freedom Of Information Act scrutiny with the goal of ...

A U.S. federal court judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a University of Florida professor against a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter. In the suit, UF horticultural sciences ...

Even the best scientific innovation can be flattened by public distrust. That was the major reminder from Kevin Folta, Ph.D., a professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida, to ...

In 2015, Eric Lipton, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, published a long expose on the front page of the New York Times that delivered on its headline: “Food Industry Enlisted ...

If you're a scientist and public communicator, you are putting yourself in professional and personal danger. And as Kevin Folta's case shows, things are only getting worse. Social media in general, ...

A University of Florida professor, who has been a longtime defender of genetically modified foods, has sued the New York Times and one of its reporters for libel. Kevin Folta, UF's horticultural ...

Recently, University of Florida plant geneticists Zhonglin Mou and Kevin Folta, along with their team of graduate students, announced a new method to fight common diseases in fruit plants. Their ...

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A University of Florida professor widely known for his scientific defense of genetically modified foods has sued Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Eric Lipton and the New York Times claiming he was ...