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- Would Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman Have Signed that GMO Letter? From what I have read about him, I am pretty sure that Richard Feynman would not have signed the recent letter in which a large percentage of our living Nobel laureates urged Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs)…
- The Absurdity of Claiming that “All GMOs are Safe” In an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Mark Lynas recently wrote that “There is an equivalent level of scientific consensus on both issues…that climate change is real and genetically modified foods are safe.” But comparing the issues …
- Time To Talk “Conflicts of Interest” In Relation to GMOs Scientific conflicts of interest have been in the news a lot lately. For example, a federal judge recently ruled that various members of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee had conflicts of interest and…
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Food Evolution Film Neglects to Mention Important Facts…Like Glyphosate is a Probable Human Carcinogen
The film Food Evolution, despite being narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has been called “a slick piece of GMO propaganda” by Marion Nestle, a prominent nutrition scientist at NYU who was interviewed for it. In response to Nestle’s tweet on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Chassy, Calgene, Charles Benbrook, David Shaw, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Food Evolution, Fred Gould, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, glyphosate, GMO, IARC, Kevin Folta, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Monsanto, Nature, New York Times, NK603 corn, propaganda, rat feeding studies, Regulation of GMOs, Richard Feynman, Roundup, San Francisco Chronicle, Seralini, transparency, World Health Organization
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Corrections to San Francisco Chronicle article
I wrote the following letter in response to an article on California’s Prop 37 written by Stacy Finz in the San Francisco Chronicle; it was published in The Davis Enterprise on August 24, 2012. First, there are currently no crops … Continue reading
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Tagged EPA, FDA, mutagenic process, Nature Biotechnology, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, superweeds, USDA
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