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Re-examining 10 science-challenged studies suggesting GMOs are harmful

Layla Katiraee | 
The blog "10 Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Can Be Harmful To Human Health" is now a fixture on cyberspace. A ...
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Viewpoint: 6 debunked anti-GMO talking points activists should abandon for good

Agnès Ricroch | 
The public still accepts some blatant untruths about biotechnology, food safety, and sustainability ...
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Viewpoint: Activist campaign against synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and GMOs a pending ‘disaster’ for our food supply

Bill Wirtz | 
‘Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.’ Those were ...
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Podcast: Biologist Rob Wager takes on anti-GMO scientists at 1st International Conference on Agroecology

Kevin Folta, Robert Wager | 
Economic growth fueled by market reforms has cut poverty in the developing world drastically over the last 30 years. But ...
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Viewpoint: How the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. fails viewers in its misleading coverage of GMO crops and glyphosate

Robert Wager | 
There is no excuse for such misinformation from Canada's ‘National News Agency.' ...
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Pseudo-science alert: For $9,500, Politico provides disinformation about crop biotechnology, GMOs and pesticides

Andrew Porterfield | 
When Politico strays from politics into agricultural biotech, its naiveté and lack of science expertise shows through ...
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Séralini pseudoscience syndicate: Lessons learned from decade-long assault on biotechnology orchestrated by French geneticist

Marc Brazeau | 
A look at Séralini's modus operandi can equip journalists and other interested observers to turn a critical eye on Séralini ...
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Another 2-year GMO corn and Roundup study finds no evidence of increased cancer, again repudiating Séralini’s retracted 2012 study

Pablo Steinberg | 
In 2012, a controversial study on the long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and the glyphosate-tolerant genetically modified (GM) maize ...
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10 GMO memes backed up by science

Anti-GMO activists have churned out memes critical of GM crops and food. Now science enthusiasts are fighting back with fact-based ...
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Viewpoint: Why the French media still defend Séralini’s discredited GMO rat tumor study

André Heitz | 
In recent months, the [French] media has had little interest in reporting the results of three large-scale studies that reviewed and confirmed the safety ...
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Will Gene Editing and Other New Breeding Techniques Provide a ‘Second Chance’ for Worldwide Embrace of Genetically Engineered Crops?

Jon Entine | 
Jon Entine, Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project | June 13, 2018Highlights: Anti-GMO activists, aided by Russian propaganda, have ...
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Science disproves Seralini GMO rat tumor study—but his findings were always an outlier

Steven Novella | 
Gilles-Éric Séralini is a French researcher who came to fame from publishing a study in 2012 claiming that herbicide-tolerant GMO corn, with ...
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Infamous Seralini GMO rat tumor study debunked by European scientists

Joan Conrow | 
Three European studies have disproved Gilles-Éric Séralini’s widely circulated claims that genetically modified maize (corn) induces tumors in rats. Séralini, ...
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‘The taste of pesticides in wines’: Dissecting Gilles-Eric Seralini’s latest ethically and scientifically questionable study

Andrew Kniss | 
The notorious Gilles-Eric Seralini published a paper recently called “The Taste of Pesticides in Wines.” As a part of the ...
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Did Monsanto engineer campaign to get controversial 2012 Seralini rat study retracted?

A trove of internal documents from Monsanto, recently unsealed in a lawsuit against the agricultural biotech giant, has revealed the ...
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Food Evolution director Scott Hamilton Kennedy: ‘I wanted to reset the debate’ over food and farming

Tim Barker | 
Oscar-nominated director talks with the Genetic Literacy Project about the reaction his documentary has received, both from GMO critics and ...
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Studies claiming serious GMO crop risks published mostly in low quality journals and riddled with conflicts of interest, bad science

Miguel Sánchez, Wayne Parrott | 
[Editor's note: Miguel Sanchez is Executive Director of ChileBio. Wayne Parrott is a professor of Crop Science at the University of ...
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Words matter: Goodbye ‘GMO’?

Kevin Folta | 
The popular terms 'GMO' and 'genetically modified' contribute to the public's negative perceptions of genetically engineered foods? How can we ...
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Cognitive dissonance: Why some people ignore science and reject GMO safety

Andrew Porterfield | 
Logical, science-based arguments often seem to have no affect on people hardened in their opposition to GMOs. The reasons are ...
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Glyphosate: Dangerous chemical or anti-GMO bogeyman?

Tim Barker | 
Glyphosate has drawn scrutiny and criticism like no other chemical in agriculture since the controversy over DDT. But years of ...
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How European-Based NGOs Block Crop Biotechnology Adoption In Africa

Margaret Karembu | 
European politicians and anti-biotech groups lobby to prevent Africa from adopting or trading GE crops. Farmers have been forced to ...
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New GMO corn study: ‘Transgenic maize is as safe and nutritious as conventional non-transgenic maize’

Jin Fang et al. | 
[Editor's note: Researchers studied the impact of GMO corn on rats in a 90-day feed study. For background on GMO safety ...
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Glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide linked to liver disease in rats? Researcher Séralini under fire again

Alison Van Eenennaam | 
Animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam walks us through a new study by controversial researcher Giles-Eric Séralini, who once again links ...
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Economists, in ‘predatory’ journal, challenge Syngenta study finding neonics pose ‘low risk’ to bees

Editor's Note: This article discusses the attack on a Syngenta study by economists published in the Environmental Sciences Europe titled "An experiment ...
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Can water protect you from glyphosate ‘poisoning’? Gilles-Eric Séralini’s homeopathy “detox” hoax

Andrew Porterfield | 
The controversial French scientist fronts for a homeopathy company that has funded much of his research. What does mainstream science ...
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Séralini paper: Molecular analysis shows GMO corn differs from non-GMO–Is difference meaningful?

Gilles-Éric Séralini et al. | 
In the US, the Food and Drug Administration ... GMO crops are deregulated once nutritional and compositional “substantial equivalence” is demonstrated ...
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GenØk: How Norway came to revile GMOs

Liv Langberg, Øystein Heggdal | 
Through poorly designed studies on water fleas, the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology has fueled confusion and fear of GMOs ...
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