Complex sentence: The outreach program is an established program in science communication for scientists, it is not used in "defending genetically modified food" as Lipton claims, and such deliberate misinterpretations of the outreach program have been likened to McCarthy-Era tactics.
Split into simpler sentences: The outreach program is an established program in science communication for scientists, and it is not used in "defending genetically modified food" as Lipton claims. Such deliberate misinterpretations of the outreach program have been likened to McCarthy-Era tactics.