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Shock troops check ‘poor’ GM study
More on the Seralini Affaire (see hyperlink tag for complete background details)
…”The editors of Food and Chemical Toxicology, which has a relatively low impact factor of 2.999, did not respond to invitations to comment.
Both the Sustainable Food Trust and CRIIGEN have posted detailed responses to the criticisms on their websites.
Professor Seralini dismissed most of the concerns as “non-serious, erroneous, false or stupid”. He told Times Higher Education that he was surprised by the “violent and rapid [reaction] by scientists” and questioned the motives and expertise of his detractors, adding that most of them “have not published any peer-reviewed scientific papers on mammalian or human pathophysiological and toxicological studies”.
He said his study was “the most comprehensive lifelong mammalian toxicological study ever performed on an agricultural GMO and a pesticide in formulation with its adjuvants”, and had used the same experimental design as a previous, shorter safety study conducted by the GM maize’s manufacturer.
“If 10 rats is a too small number per group to [draw conclusions about] safety, then the [GM maize] and most agricultural GMOs should be forbidden,” he said” …@ Times Higher Education – Research intelligence – Shock troops check ‘poor’ GM study:
2012-10-06 18:22:29
Source: http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2012/10/shock-troops-check-poor-gm-study.html
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