11 March 2014 - The pesticide producers are one of the most powerful industries on the planet, the influence they possess is enormous. You have probably heard that an Elsevier journal has retracted the Seralini study which showed evidence of harm to rats fed a GMO diet, despite admitting they found no fraud or errors in the study. This journal had also just recently appointed an ex-Monsanto employee as an editor - one could only guess the value of this strategy for the pesticide industry. Expect Seralini to sue as this story develops, as it appears he has a very strong case. Alas, the scientific ground on which the genetic engineering of plants is built may now be shakier than ever, thanks to GMO promoting scientists like Dr. Pamela Ronald. A recent article in Independent Science News1 questions whether shell be able to salvage her career, as two of her scientific papers (published in 2009 and 2011 respectively) were recently retracted. With the loss of her credibility, and the domino effect these retractions are likely to cause within the scientific field, the entire chemical technology industry stands to suffer a great blow to its scientific integrity. Her media persona... is to take no prisoners, Jonathan Latham, PhD writes.2 After New York Times chief food writer Mark Bittman advocated GMO labeling, she called him a scourge on science who couches his nutty views in reasonable-sounding verbiage. His opinions were almost fact- and science-free continued Ronald. In 2011 she claimed in an interview with the US Ambassador to New Zealand: After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of two billion acres planted, GE crops have not caused a single instance of harm to human health or the environment. She may have to turn down her criticism a notch, considering the fact that not one but two of her own studies were found to contain sizeable scientific errors, rendering her findings null and void. Questions have also been raised about a third study published in 2011, according to the featured article. READ MORE: articles.mercola/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/11/retracted-gmo-studies.aspx
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 05:12:33 +0000
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