ABOVE: WIKIMEDIA, UNMADINDU
Update (October 28, 2021): PLOS One has retracted a 2019 study led by Caleb Harper over issues confirmed in a post-publication assessment. According to the retraction notice, five of the six authors disagreed with the retraction and stand by their findings, while one could not be reached.
In August, the MIT Media Lab came under fire for its financial ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, the lab is under scrutiny for allegedly promoting its Open Agricultural Initiative with misleading claims and for dumping wastewater containing 20 times the legal limit of nitrogen near Middleton, a suburb of Boston.
The Open Agricultural Initiative, led by architect Caleb Harper, has been featured in a number of media outlets with the focus on its “food computers,” elaborate, mini greenhouses that appear to grow crops with little air and no soil or sunlight. However, the food computers appear ...
