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National Academy forum challenges anti-GMO claim that DNA in food ‘invades’ bloodstream

Mary Mangan |
Can science self-correct to protect against sloppy or politicized research? Scientist Mary Mangan discusses the controversy over a study that ...
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Hollywood celebrities embrace pseudoscience, promote anti-GMO movie “Consumed”

Julie Kelly |
Even as the consensus on the safety of GMO foods grows, a faction in Hollywood appears to be lining up ...
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Scientist deconstructs Séralini’s PLOS GMO study: ‘Failed attempt at redemption’

Alison Bernstein |
Séralini's latest paper is a thinly veiled attempt to address the consensus scientific criticism of his previous work, retracted by ...
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Organic industry and other funders behind Séralini’s anti-GMO studies

David Despain |
Financial support for the release and publicity of the laboratory animal feeding study by Gilles-Eric Séralini comes from a range ...
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Evidence mounts of ancient Jewish roots of Beta Israel Ethiopian Jewry

Ibrahim Omer |
Many historians are convinced that Ethiopian Jews are medieval converts from Christianity. But mounting genetic evidence, and new scholarly research, ...
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Anti-GMO bungle: Claim GM genes pass from food into blood collapses

Jon Entine |
In 2013, when PLoS One published a research paper, Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood, anti-GMO activists ...
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The Case for GMOs and Sustainability

Jon Entine |
From conventional breeding to mutagenesis, none of our foods that we eat today is the product of Nature’s way. But ...
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GMO myth busting: Crops (and humans) safely composed of ‘foreign’ genes

Jon Entine |
A central canon of GMO critics is the belief that transgenics--transferring genes from one species to another--represents a 'crime against ...
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