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*The 2012 Seralini study, the best scientific work done on a GMO to date and one of the best scientific studies of recent years, has been republished by Environmental Sciences Europe. The new publication includes expanded material, a reply to the media smear campaign against the study, and a commentary on how the original publication was censored by an anti-scientific cabal presided over by a Monsanto commissar.
This makes two duly constituted peer review processes the study has passed, while its retraction by Food and Chemical Toxicology was the result of a secret conclave among the editors and could muster only the most bogus rationale. Scientists around the world welcome this vindication.
*More proof from Argentina that glyphosate causes cancer. A new report from the health ministry of the Cordoba province documents high rates of tumors and cancer deaths in the agricultural depratments of the province. These areas are dominated by poison-based industrial soy production, with massive applications of glyphosate.
The government is doing its usual thing of emphasizing the broadest numbers it can in order to submerge the significant figures for the plantation zones. As Damien Verzenassi, medical doctor and one of the organizers of field studies in villages among the plantations, says, “They keep demanding studies on something that is already proven and do not take urgent measures to protect the population. There is ample evidence that the agricultural model has health consequences, we are talking about a production model that is a huge public health problem”.
*It’s not just in Western countries that surveillance bureaucracies see domestic spying and subversion on behalf of international corporations to be their primary task. In a report recently leaked to the press, India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) attacks domestic anti-GMO critics and activists for being enemies of the commodification economy, and therefore of India. The nature of the allegation itself proves the opposite. Since globalization seeks the global dictatorship of a handful of multinational corporations, almost all of them based in the US and Europe, nothing could be more alien to India and the well-being of the Indian people than this corporate domination. Conversely, nothing is more treasonous than the actions of those who want to hand over domestic economies and polities to these corporations.
That’s just as much true in the US as it is in India. Corporations have no home and are the enemies of all of humanity.
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Republished Seralini GMO-rat study was not peer-reviewed, says Journal editor, according to retractionwatch.com – In our coverage Tuesday of the republication of the controversial retracted study of GMOs and rats by Gilles Seralini and colleagues, we wrote this about a strange passage in an editor’s note on the paper:.. Also reported by Nature. If you want to remain a credible source and not just a proliferator of propaganda you should make a correction. The Seralini paper underwent one peer- review, the editors for which subsequently retracted the paper. As such, it is no longer peer reviewed science.
Comment by Cin An — June 27, 2014 @ 11:03 am
It passed peer review, and could only be retracted in violation of COPE rules and on the basis of a direct lie told by Food and Chemical Toxicology editor Wallace Hayes, who fraudulently claimed that it was an “inconclusive” cancer study rather than the strong toxicology study which it was and is. Hayes simply regurgitated on command one of the tedious canned lies endlessly used to slander this excellent science.
Environmental Science Europe, according to the account you yourself cite, performed its own review of the original review, which has never credibly been called into question in the first place. So what did any of us on the side of science say which was inaccurate? The Seralini study was simply censored and legalistically made an unstudy by brute force. But we who actually respect science, and that’s one of the values of this site, weren’t fooled by the ploy of Monsanto’s FCT commissar, which anyone can read about in the links I’ve given. Here’s a few of them again.
http://earthopensource.org/index.php/news/148-former-monsanto-employee-put-in-charge-of-gmo-papers-at-journal
http://earthopensource.org/index.php/news/147-the-goodman-affair-monsanto-targets-the-heart-of-science
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15193-conflicts-of-interest-at-food-and-chemical-toxicology-and-elsevier
Meanwhile, I remember the site you mention from its silly attempt to rehabilitate the hack publicist Pam Ronald when she, unlike Seralini, really was unmasked as an incompetent researcher.
http://retractionwatch.com/?s=pam+ronald
http://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/can-the-scientific-reputation-of-pamela-ronald-public-face-of-gmos-be-salvaged/
Ronald passed the buck for her own screwups to junior (Asian) scapegoats, and your corporate “science” media happily helped her do it. So we see the pro-corporate bias of “Retraction Watch”.
Comment by Russ — June 27, 2014 @ 11:44 am
[…] studies becomes more insane all the time. Food and Chemical Toxicology, the same journal which unsuccessfully tried to censor and suppress the 2012 Seralini study, has dropped even the slightest pretense […]
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