Hotly Debated: 1240 Scientists Demand Seralini GMO Study be Republished, Will NOT Be Suppressed
Over 1240 scientist signatories have demanded that a study previously published on the toxic effects of GMO maize and RoundUp that was retracted by the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) be reinstated. This is a massive backlash against an industry that has tried to silence well-qualified scientists from publishing the truth about GMOs.
These scientists and others plan to boycott Elsevier -a ‘world-leading provider of scientific information – until the journal, FCT, reinstates a study carried out by Gilles Eric Séralini et al., which was been debated throughout scientific and non-scientific circles alike.
Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini is a biologist at the University of Caen. He published a study on GMOs which clearly showed how damaging they were to health, and pointing out that “Agricultural GMOs do not exist independently of pesticides.” That study can be found here.
One scientist said:
“The suppression of scientific evidence for commercial gain should be punishable by criminal charges. The tobacco companies got away with this for nearly 30 years before the world woke up to the problem, and even then the response was insufficient. The risks posed by the epigenetic response of plant DNA to foreign genes is potentially catastrophic, and the precautionary principle should apply. Censoring science is playing with peoples lives.”
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Following is part of the statement published by Elsevier referencing their retraction:
“The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracts the article “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize,” which was published in this journal in November 2012. This retraction comes after a thorough and time-consuming analysis of the published article and the data it reports, along with an investigation into the peer-review behind the article. The Editor in-Chief deferred making any public statements regarding this article until this investigation was complete, and the authors were notified of the findings.”
Seralini has vowed he will republish his study. He believes the study was only retracted due to lobbyist pressure and the symbolic effect the study would have on the industry. With the retraction of this study (and despite others indicating GMO dangers), companies like Monsanto, the makers of RoundUp chemicals, can say, ‘there has never been a study proving GMOs pose a health risk.’ That is quantifiably wrong.
One of the comments posted on the retraction and attempted silencing of the scientists involved in the Seralini study sums up the issue perfectly:
“Our American children have been the unwilling science experiments to GMOs and their health issues have skyrocketed. 1 out of 2 of our children will have Autism in 20 years if we keep going at the rate we are now. Diabetes expenses will eat up all of our federal health care budget in 13 years. Failure to conceive in the US is now at 30%. These and many more health conditions have been linked to GMOs and Glyphosate. Moms Across America are seeing their children get better when they get off GMOs, from autism, allergies, auto immune and asthma.
Seralini’s study was a warning, Moms choose to heed it and be “Better safe than sorry”. We chose raise awareness to fight to get GMOs labeled and eat GMO free and organic or the future of our country and the world. And we will never stop. We will not give up. Because the love for our children will never end. We are supported by Seralini’s undauntable courage and applaud his research.” – ZEN HONEYCUTT
Why did Monsanto want this study to disappear? You can find one reason in this simple statement:
“They [GMOs] make animals seriously ill.”
Monsanto cannot suppress us forever. Join the masses who are telling Monsanto we know the truth about their poison crops, and we won’t be suppressed any longer.
Seralini’s study needs to be on the front of every major news publication when it is republished. The biotech trolls should have a heyday trying to shoot it down a second time.
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You can have 120,000 scientists call for it to be republished, if you can find that many…which I doubt. That still doesn’t change the fact that it was a fraudulent study with biased results.
Comment paid for by Monsanto et al…
Nobody claimed the study was fraudulent. They said it used the wrong rats as well as too few rats. The study was an extension of the same study Monsanto did to prove that gmos were safe.
Monsanto doing its own studies to prove they are safe is not science its Monsanto propaganda, telling the sheeple that they are safe. Personally i will avoid and you all should too . Lable all GMO and allow the sheep to decide whats safe and what isn’t.
There was nothing bias or fraudulent
about the study. Period
Actually, plenty of references say the Seralini study was fraudulent. http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/09/25/scientists-smell-a-rat-in-fraudulent-genetic-engineering-study/
What does it take to convince someone? More studies while Americans serve as guinea pigs without their knowledge or consent? The study was not biased. Are you a Monsanto troll. There is sufficient evidence without it anyways but it just substantiates the others. Oh not to mention possible ecoside and human extinction but I guess that’s okay with you.
“The study was retracted with great violence by the journal which published it after a former employee of Monsanto was introduced onto the editorial board of the journal. He is the former head of GMO toxicology dossiers at Monsanto.”
They go on to say: “This study was withdrawn due to the wrongdoing of lobbyists in the system, under pressure from Monsanto. The arguments of the journal were the same as those of Monsanto. In any case, we stand by our findings! And we will republish [the study]!”
http://www.gmoseralini.org/they-gmos-make-animals-seriously-ill/
Seralini study was horribly flawed. Prejean et al. studied back in 1973 how often these Sprague-Dawley rats developed tumors spontaneously. They had 179 male and 181 female rats. 58 % of male and 34 % of female rats developed tumors in 18 months.
Seralini et al. had 10 male and 10 female rats in the control group. 30 % of male and 20 % female rats developed tumors in two years. These results are due to small sample size. Prejean’s study lasted 6 months less than Seralini’s but they got more tumors. When you have small sample size like in Seralini’s study, the effect of chance is greater.
Prejean et al: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/33/11/2768.full.pdf
1240 “scientist”. There is no ONE evidence against GMO after 30 years. GMO are absolutly the safest technology deveoped by humans. This is the classical masquerade of people depicting themselves as a farmers or scientist to campaing agains GMO.
I would bet that YOU don’t eat them you nasty troll!
where is the link to the list of the 1240 scientists? how do we know the list isnt padded or filled with non-biologists and non doctors
google “project steve” which is a parody response to a similar list by creationists
1240 scientists is not a massive backlash – it is a miniscule proportion of the world’s scientist population of 10 million or more.
Moreover the research has not been “suppressed” – it is still easily available on the ‘net.
The USA Food and Drug Administration refuses to regulate or label GM crops. They claimed in the 1990s that GM crops are “substantially equivalent” to conventional and organic crops and do not need regulation or labeling.
The USDA and the EPA regulate GM crops because of the dangers they pose to farmland, other crops and the environment.
Neither the USDA or the EPA are concerned about the consequences of people or animals eating GM crops, they claim that is not their job.
GM crops now have at least two insecticides growing in them that cannot be washed off or cooked out. They also are immune to at least two herbicides. This allows for weed control by spraying the crops and the soil, which means herbicide residue on and inside the crop, which we and our children are now eating as part of our diet.
We have never had herbicide in our diet before, it is not safe.
RoundUp label – https://www.organicconsumers.org/old_articles/monsanto/roundup.php
No feeding trials are required to be done on GMO foods by the FDA to ensure they are safe to eat.
The Seralini study proves GMO corn sprayed with RoundUp herbicide causes liver and kidney damage – http://www.gmoseralini.org/en/
Go to the Seralini website and view the evidence, the critics and criticisms and Seralini patient refutations of ALL the critics.
See how unsafe and untested GM food crops are!
Just labeling GMO will stop them dead in their contaminated tracks!
http://www.justlabelit.org/
As Always,
For the protection of children,
In the interests of truth and science,
Michael Polidori