Saturday, June 28, 2014

French scientists revive assault on pesticide, GM corn

Seed Daily via AFP: Scientists who wrote a contested study linking pesticide-treated, genetically-modified corn with tumours and liver and kidney disease in lab rats returned to the attack on Tuesday, republishing their work online.

Denying accusations of bad science, the team said their work, which was withdrawn by the journal which first printed it, had been republished in Environmental Sciences Europe, owned by Germany's Springer group.

The raw data has now been placed in the public domain for others to scrutinise, the researchers said. "Censorship of research into the risks of a technology so intertwined with global food safety undermines the value and credibility of science," the team said in a statement....

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