GalleryFor decades, science has invited itself onto our dinner plates. This book asks it to sit down to dinner. International industries have systematized the use of chemicals: spreading them on the fields and using them in the breeding, processing,
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Culinary pleasures or hidden poisons?
GalleryCRIIGEN withdraws from French government project on GMO risks
Today the independent scientific research organisation CRIIGEN announced its formal withdrawal from the French government’s Risk’OGM project. Risk’OGM was intended to follow up the findings of CRIIGEN researchers, led by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini, that GM maize NK603 and the Roundup herbicide it is
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GalleryEditor of Food and chemical Toxicology is obliged to give Prof. Séralini’s team right of reply after retracting NK603 and Roundup study
The editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) uses double standards when it comes to publishing in favour of the industry, Prof. Séralini’s team say. Now the journal’s publisher Elsevier has compelled him to publish a right of reply
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GalleryThe dirty details behind the attacks on Seralini’s notorious GMO rat study
Remember the GMO rat study finding that rats fed GMOs developed tumors and died prematurely? After Seralini’s long term toxicity study results were publicized with displays of rats showing huge tumors, a tsunami of outrage from pro-GMO related scientists got favorable mainstream media
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Gallery“They [GMOs] make animals seriously ill”
Professor Gilles -Eric Séralini is a biologist at the University of Caen and author of a controversial study on the impact of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). While in Brussels, he answered our questions. (more…)
GallerySéralini releases statement on retraction and correspondence with ethics watchdog
Prof Séralini’s team has condemned the breach of scientific ethics by the editor of the journal that retracted their study; they have also released their correspondence with the scientific publishing ethics watchdog COPE. (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…)
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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