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Title: How Monsanto Stifles Scientific Dissent - The Eyeopener
Published: 2013-12-03
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz20IqmAmhA
Title: How Monsanto Stifles Scientific Dissent - The Eyeopener
Published: 2013-12-03
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz20IqmAmhA
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in September of last year an international research team led by doctor Ericson alleni of the university of Cain published a landmark study in the journal of food and chemical toxicology the study titled bunker toxicity of around upper beside in a round of tolerant genetically modified maize purported to show adverse health effects on groups of rats fed Monsanto's roundup herbicide roundup ready corn including liver congestion is2/34
necrosis tumors and early death the researchers followed two hundred rats over two years divided into ten groups each of ten males and ten females three of the groups were fed Monsanto's patented NK six oh three GMO corn alone three groups were fed the corn treated with roundup herbicide three groups were fed roundup treated water but no GMO corn and a control group was fed neither GMO3/34
corn nor roundup herbicide the team's results indicated that the rats fed the round up or the GMO corn separately or combined were more likely to experience a range of ill health effects than the non GMO control group shareholder association you want these figures show with a large tumors each step represents a lot too much which commits a seventeen millimeters by seventeen millimeters for a ride these4/34
measurements a colossal to %HESITATION city would equate to a tumor this size have seen on a human it is unknown and in the home support crew after having started using humor as it can be said that ninety four percent of them take effect in the memory which would equate to breast cancer in a woman we're faced with renal tumors from the males but not only some5/34
males also suffer from mammary tumors this points towards a homeowner the fact that isn't affected by the Dutch tellingly the adverse health effects did not start to appear until the fourth month of the study while the previous industry sponsored feeding trial on the same court variety only lasted three months that study did find signs of toxicity as well but those results were dismissed as not biologically6/34
meaningful the surly paper in its results deemed surprising because it goes against all of the industry sponsored research showing the supposed safety of GMOs caused an immediate stir in the scientific community and online up until now one could have thought that the main cause of death for the test of grants was coming from the pesticide added to the call but what the study highlighted and this7/34
for the first time ever is the fact that the trends genesis itself could have killed the rats what this means is that just by interfering with the genome of the plant in order to modify it we are faced with Rita because but no this is enough to make us read set up all the scientific precepts that led to the creation but it was not long at8/34
all before the biotech industry PR machine wanted to damage control mode and began smearing the study the European food safety authority found numerous problems with the French study from not enough control rats to sub standard analytical methods at the university of California at Davis toxicologist Allison and internet question the researchers motives I think it was a lot of cynical ploy to exploit the scientific to really9/34
depth create fear in the minds of consumers the desperation became apparent when the European food safety authority was tasked with examining the study that threatened to expose the shoddy approval process that the E. FSA itself would use to conclude in two thousand nine that the NK six oh three Mays was as safe as conventional ways as a researcher and author of seeds of destruction William angle10/34
points out in a new op ed if I say argued that silly me had used the wrong kind of rats not enough rats and that the statistical analysis was inadequate by the standards all toxicity studies on glacial Satan GMO should be retracted because they use the same type an approximate number of rats as those in the surly niece study amazingly despite this concerted PR campaign to11/34
smear the surly study seven expert witnesses were unable to rebut the study in a Filipino courtroom in October a Filipino court of appeals upheld the decision to ban BT eggplant from the country despite the efforts of seven industry witnesses attempting to rebut the substance of surly niece findings perhaps this is why the journal of food and chemical toxicology took the unprecedented decision to retract the study12/34
last week unprecedented because it goes against the journal's own express principles and guidelines for such attractions the publisher of the journal also VA is a member of the committee on publication ethics whose criteria for tracking a paper are clear evidence that the findings are unreliable due to misconduct example data fabrication or honest error plagiarism or redundant publication unethical research the editor of the journal doctor a13/34
Wallace haze himself admits that the paper meets none of these criteria in his own statement on the retraction he admits that he found no evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data yet still the papers being retracted because the results presented while not incorrect or inconclusive apparently a new standard for article retraction that seems to apply especially to articles critical of the GMO industry in14/34
general and Monsanto products in particular it is not at all unfair to be cynical about this retraction either on a radio program late last month doctor E. N. Clark pointed out a surprising connection between the journal and Monsanto that might account not only for the retraction of the several in the paper but also the recent retraction of a similar study from Brazil that demonstrated the toxic15/34
effects on mice of the bacillus thuringiensis insecticide that forms the basis of the BT GMO crops then early in twenty thirteen after the two papers been accepted and published a wholly new position hold a deputy editor in biotechnology was created at this journal and it was filled by an allergy specialist or Richard Goodwin by any %HESITATION and as it happened the specialist had worked for Monsanto16/34
in regulatory sciences from nineteen ninety seven until July of twenty well for then within months of his arrival journal the two papers %HESITATION which identify possible concerns with GM corn weren't retracted and most recently the one from Shirley the former Monsanto scientists should find himself in charge of a specially created posted the very journal that published two landmark studies questioning the safety of that company's products17/34
should surprise no one who is aware of the Monsanto revolving door this store is responsible for literally dozens of Monsanto officials lobbyists and consultants finding themselves in positions of authority in the government bodies that are supposedly there to regulate the company and its actions this list of officials includes Linda Fisher a senior EPA official who later became Monsanto's VP of government and public affairs Michael Taylor18/34
Obama's deputy FDA commissioner who also served as Monsanto's VP for public policy and US Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas who served as a corporate lawyer from Monsanto in the nineteen seventies these positions of influence have been used to help Monsanto and its biotech peers obtain an FDA ruling which asserts the GMO foods are not substantially different from non modified foods we approval for their products from19/34
regulators by self sponsoring studies with almost identical methodologies to the several in the study that was just attracted and pass favorable legislation like the Monsanto protection act preventing the company from being taken to federal court in the event the GMOs are discovered to be harmful to human health but lesser known as section seven three five of the bill officially titled the farm assurance provision but since20/34
nicknamed the Monsanto rider or the Monsanto protection act the provision protects large biotechnology companies like Monsanto from being taken to federal court should a genetically modified organism be discovered as being harmful to the consumer some Congress people argue that the provision was unnecessary concession in order to pass the spending bill to prevent a total shutdown of the federal government in his newly created position as associate21/34
editor for biotechnology former Monsanto employee Richard E. Goodman has now overseeing the retraction of two papers that had been critical of his former employer yet this fundamental conflict of interest is nowhere commented on in reportage of the surly niece studies retraction sadly this is par for the course when it comes to the so called science behind the safety of GMOs time after time shoddy and poorly22/34
designed toxicity studies that show the safety of these products are given the seal of approval by bought and paid for regulators and independent studies that show contrary findings are subjected to arbitrary and nonsensical principles that supposedly undermine their validity as a recent article in GM watch points out numerous GM related studies have been retracted in the past few years for misleading and downright fraudulent research the23/34
list of frauds and abuses continues to mount from concerns over the introduction of BT brinjal in India to the mysterious appearance of GMO wheat in supposedly non GMO crops in the western United States to the appearance of unapproved GM corn in shipments of supposedly non GMO corn to China just this week these types of problems have led to the outright refusal of a growing number of24/34
countries to accept genetically modified crops but in a world where the issue of containment of GMO crops is increasingly called into question and where even the ability to label GMO foods may be stripped from the people altogether thanks to over arching closed door agreements like the trans Pacific partnership currently under negotiation between the U. S. and eleven of its Pacific Rim counterparts these issues are becoming25/34
increasingly pressing and of critical science like that conducted by surly niece team can be so easily sidelined dismissed and retracted what does that say about the system that is currently in place to ensure the validity and accuracy of food toxicity studies as a team of independent scientists and researchers from across the world wrote an open letter last year during the eruption of the Serling the affair26/34
when those with a vested interest attempted so on reasonable doubt about inconvenient results or when governments exploit political opportunities by picking and choosing from scientific evidence they jeopardize public confidence in scientific methods in institutions and also put their own citizenry at risk safety testing science based regulation and the scientific process itself depend crucially on a widespread trust in a body of scientists devoted to the public27/34
interest in professional integrity if instead the starting point of a scientific product assessment is an approval process rigged in favor of the applicant backed up by systematic suppression of independent scientists working in the public interest then there can never be an honest rational or scientific debate many was brought to you by the subscribers of boiling frog post dot com for more information on this and other28/34
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