… so Monsanto lobbied for a retraction of the evidence.
In September 2012, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) published the findings of the first long-term study of rats fed genetically modified corn. The study’s authors, led by Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen, France, concluded that the GM corn caused cancerous tumors in the test rats.
A week ago, the publisher of FCT announced it was retracting the study. Not because of fraud or misrepresentation of data. But because, upon further review, the journal’s editors had decided the study was “inconclusive”.
If there was no evidence of fraud or misrepresentation, why did FCT retract the study? Because, the journal said, “there is legitimate reason for concern about both the number of animals tested in each group and the particular strain of rat selected.” But in 2004 the FCT published a study by Monsanto finding the same strain of GMO corn (NK603) safe after measuring its effects on only ten Sprague-Dawley rats for three months only.
No the reason the article was retracted was because Monsanto didn’t like it, so they got one of tehir alumni in to FCT as an editor and BOOM, the story is gone.
It is sad that Monsanto does not deal GMO with an even hand because then if there were some good in it we might be able to trust them. But we can’t because they obscure the truth, pay for lies and fail to put people before profit. (Last year they made over 2 Billion bucks!)
OCA: Who smells a rat?
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