Clara Fuentes, who handles Science Review at the Biochemical Pesticides Branch in the Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division of the Environmental Protection Agency, doesn't seem to like our dispatch no more.
On October 8th we got the following email:
What was the controversial topic that set her off? Hard to say. Here is the list of articles in the newsletter she replied to:
Like all branches of government, the EPA is diverse so it may be that in the interests of being balanced they hire entomologists who are shills for Organic Peanut or Big Insomniac. That would certainly be a reason to dislike the American Council on Science and Health because we pull no punches when it comes to getting sleep. Maybe she is secretly campaigning for Dr. Ben Carson and doesn't like that we criticize him for embracing supplements. Maybe she is a freedom-loving progressive and doesn't like that we lauded New York state for mandating vaccines.
Maybe she is both for Big Peanut and against Big Government. Nothing says free-market capitalism like a peanut wearing a top hat and a monocle selling other peanuts.
Or perhaps she is an entirely different kind of nut. It will have to remain a science mystery.