[7] However, NAS president Frank Press reported Benbrook's termination was related to repeated warnings over his public comments on incomplete research that did not reflect the views of the academic professional reviewers at the Academy.
[4] Between 2012 and 2015, Benbrook was an adjunct research professor at Washington State University on contract with the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources(SCANR).
The study group claims to be researching correlations between Midwest pesticide use and health issues for women and children to promote a shift to organic production methods.
[19] One of Benbrook's best-known studies is one published in 2012, funded by the organic industry,[9] which concluded that genetically modified foods have resulted in increased pesticide use, purportedly because weeds are developing resistance to glyphosate.
[26] More recently, in December 2013, Benbrook was the lead author of a study which reported that organic milk contained significantly higher levels of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
[29][30] Benbrook was a signatory on a 2013 statement issued by the minor anti-GMO group the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility which asserted that there is no consensus on the safety of genetically modified food.
Adding, "Quite simply, the money trail behind Benbrook’s latest work can be directly traced to the organic industry that greatly profits from any bad news about Monsanto, glyphosate or GMOs.
[35] In 2015, Benbrook and Philip Landrigan co-authored a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine urging the United States government to conduct new assessments of the safety of glyphosate, which had been declared a probable human carcinogen earlier that year.