11-25-2013, 02:54 AM
The year old CBS News article pointed at by Oneself is the discredited Seralini study. Just one point, the study touted a number of tumors in the rats studied, but they used a strain of rat that is known to be prone to tumors! The European science agencies reacted like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Séralini_affair
quote:
The EFSA [European Food Safety Authority] reviewed the 2009 Séralini paper and concluded that the authors' claims were not supported by the data in their paper, that many of their fundamental statistical criticisms of the 2007 paper also applied to the 2009 paper, and that there was no new information that would change the EFSA's conclusions that the three GM maize types were safe for human and animal health, and for the environment.[29] The French High Council of Biotechnologies Scientific Committee[30] (HCB) also reviewed the Séralini 2009 study and concluded that it "..presents no admissible scientific element likely to ascribe any haematological, hepatic or renal toxicity to the three re-analysed GMOs."[31] The HCB also questioned the authors' independence, noting that, in 2010, the Séralini web page still showed a 2008 Austrian anti-GM article which had been previously withdrawn by the authors themselves as flawed. Food Standards Australia New Zealand concluded that the results from the 2009 Séralini study were due to chance alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Séralini_affair