Genes are not the only organisms being manipulated. When it comes to telling the truth, reports by bio-industry funded, yet official-sounding organisations leave a lot to be desired.

Should you believe any report sponsored by the industry that stands to benefit from that same report? Hmmm.

Most of us "believed" the tobacco industry for twenty years whilst their scientist cronies repeatedly told us not to worry about the effects of smoking. "There is no evidence linking smoking to lung cancer" was their mantra, whilst we dragged and inhaled for way longer than we should have. [SourceWatch]

Don't Big Pharmaceutical companies always tell the truth? I wonder where the idea for the movie, The Constant Gardener came from? [The Nation] John le Carré author of the 2001 novel says in the book's afterword "By comparison with the reality, my story [is] as tame as a holiday postcard."

Oil companies ever disputed climate change? Ask ExxonMobil which climate change denialists they've been funding. [Guardian]

Should I also mention the revelation, just a few days ago, that 150 US scientists were pressured to change their reports on global warming to fit the Bush administration's climate change scepticism.... [New Scientist]

I could also go into Nazi Minister of Truth and Enlightenment (and Propoganda), Joseph Goebbels, and his big-lie theory that a lie repeated often enough will ultimately be believed as the truth, but think that I've already set the tone...