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Activists misuse open records requests to harass researchers

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imageA researcher buried in records requests can’t attend to actual science. Man image via www.shutterstock.com

This winter, Kevin Folta, a plant molecular biologist with the University of Florida’s (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), became the target of a sweeping public records request from US...

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