Carey Gillam at Changing Hands - Tempe

Carey Gillam: Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
6:30PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Veteran journalist and researcher Carey Gillam shares the eerily familiar story of the pesticide glyphosate, and how the powerful influence of a multi-billion-dollar industry can keep consumers in the dark.

Fifty-five years after Rachel Carson and Silent Spring awakened the world to the dangers of DDT and unchecked pesticide use, veteran journalist Carey Gillam shares a new story that illustrates how deeply we have failed to heed her warning. In Whitewash, Gillam lays bare disturbing details about the 40-year push to prominence of the world's most popular pesticide: glyphosate, known commonly as Monsanto's Roundup. With Whitewash, the capstone of 20 years of meticulous reporting, Gillam shares an eerily familiar story of how the powerful influence of a multi-billion-dollar industry that works to keep consumers in the dark and regulators in check is possible. Gillam unveils secret industry communications and regulatory documents that reveal corporate ties with an extensive cast of players and efforts to censor or discredit scientists whose research contradicts business interests. It is not a feel-good story. But it's one that needs to be heard.