Hi Wharf Rat; Re: "Read more: motherearthnews.com  ":
It's indicative of your science that you quote Mother Earth News. You get your facts from left wing political magazines. What's more, the article doesn't even give us the name of the "French researchers", LOL. Instead, it quotes an anti-GMO activist: "Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union". And what is Consumer's Union? It's a grab bag of trendy lefty campaigns: consumersunion.org
And exactly what happened to that research by the "French Researchers" that the article doesn't name? Here's Scientific American on the subject:
Study Linking Genetically Modified Corn to Rat Tumors is Retracted
Scientific American, November, 2013
Bowing to scientists' near-universal scorn, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology today fulfilled its threat to retract a controversial paper claiming that a genetically modified (GM) maize causes serious disease in rats, after the authors refused to withdraw it.
The paper, from a research group led by Gilles-Eric Séralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen, France, and published in 2012, showed “no evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data,” said a statement from Elsevier, which publishes the journal. But the small number and type of animals used in the study mean that “no definitive conclusions can be reached.” The known high incidence of tumors in the Sprague–Dawley strain of rat ”cannot be excluded as the cause of the higher mortality and incidence observed in the treated groups,” it added.
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scientificamerican.com
So here it is. You're on our board quoting politically motivated research, reported in "Mother Earth News" that, six months later, Scientific American notes suffered "near universal scorn" from scientists. This is your science in a microcosm. And it's pretty easy to predict what you're going to do now. You're going to ignore this post, and go back to claiming that Republicans are anti-science, while ignoring the beam that is in your eye.
-- Carl |
