University of California favors corporations over facts

Chronicle of Higher Education - The University of California at Berkeley cut laboratory financing this week for a professor who has complained for years about corporate-led retaliation for his association of health risks with a widely used herbicide.

“We’re dead in the water,” Tyrone B. Hayes, a professor of integrative biology, said after being told by his department chairman that the account containing his laboratory funds—needed to pay for basic functional operations, such as the care of test animals—had been frozen.

The chairman, John P. Huelsenbeck, confirmed that Mr. Hayes has had his research activities “paused,” though he said he couldn’t provide details, and a university spokesman said he was unaware of any formal punitive action.