Gallery“It must be as if the study had never happened,” said French MEP Corinne Lepage, who also challenged EU science adviser Anne Glover over her conflicts of interest with industry. (more…)
GMO food safety – Seralini and Zhu: Double standards?
Criticism of Food and Chemical Toxicology’s retraction of the Séralini study on GM maize and Roundup continues to grow, as biologist Dr Frédéric Jacquemart accuses the journal of double standards. (more…)
GallerySéralini retraction is black mark on scientific publishing – Georgetown professors
Hundreds of studies should be permanently removed from the scientific literature, but the Séralini study is not one of them, say two professors at Georgetown University Medical Center. (more…)
Science study controversy impacts world health
Growing up with the aspiration of becoming a scientist, I was told that those who pursued this occupation held themselves to higher ethical standards than other vocations. (more…)
Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent
That a former Monsanto scientist should find himself in charge of a specially-created post at the very journal that published two landmark studies questioning the safety of that company’s products should surprise no one who is aware of the
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GalleryLet’s give the scientific literature a good clean up
Food and Chemical Toxicology took the unusual step in November 2013 to retract a paper (Séralini et al., 2012) that it had published a year before. The paper’s strengths and limitations for measuring potential adverse effects of a kind
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GalleryMexican scientists criticise journal’s retraction of study on GMO
A group of Mexican scientists criticized on Wednesday a journal specialising in toxicology for giving in to “pressure” from multinational companies to withdraw a study of the French researcher Gilles-Eric Séralini on the toxicity of transgenic maize in rats.
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GalleryEnd double standards in evaluating GMO safety studies – say scientists
The controversy about the Séralini et al. study, which reported negative health effects of Monsanto’s NK603 GM maize and Roundup herbicide fed to rats over the long term, is still going on. According to a new review published in Environmental
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GalleryDid journal editor read the Seralini paper before retracting it?
In defending his retraction of the Seralini paper, the journal’s editor makes a series of damaging admissions.
The Editor-in-Chief of Food and Chemical Toxicology, A. Wallace Hayes, has come under severe criticism after retracting from his journal the paper by
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ENSSER Comments on the retraction of the Séralini et al. 2012 study
Open letter to A. Wallace Hayes, editor of Food & Chemical Toxicology
ENSSER (European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility), 30 Nov 2013 (more…)
