by Paul Fassa
Naturalsociety.com
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“This publicized display was the air and sea attack to soften the defense of the anti-GMO ideology island. Then the actual landing attack against that island’s science was embarked by setting up former Monsanto scientist Richard E. Goodman in a newly created biotech editorial position at the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT).”
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Remember the GMO rat study finding that rats fed GMOs developed tumors and died prematurely? After Seralini’s long term toxicity study results were publicized with displays of rats showing huge tumors, a tsunami of outrage from pro-GMO related scientists got favorable mainstream media (MSM) press.
The hundreds of scientists who defended Seralini’s work were ignored.
Many fence-sitters were left confused and willing to side with the barking dogs of the biotechnology industry.
This publicized display was the air and sea attack to soften the defense of the anti-GMO ideology island. Then the actual landing attack against that island’s science was embarked by setting up former Monsanto scientist Richard E. Goodman in a newly created biotech editorial position at the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT).
That’s the journal where Seralini’s study “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize” had been originally peer reviewed and posted. With Goodman steering the landing craft, the editor-in-chief of FCT, Wallace Hayes, removed Seralini’s paper from the journal.
Hayes admitted the study was not fraudulent or inaccurate, but explained that it was inconclusive. Honest defending scientists jumped on that one, explaining that peer reviewed published studies are often inconclusive, recommending “further studies”.
In case you’re thinking I’m pulling the trigger on Goodman too quickly, around that same time a Brazilian study proving Monsanto’s Bt corn insecticide starter genes do not disintegrate in mammalian stomachs as claimed by Monsanto, but survive intact to harm mammals’ blood cells was also pulled from FCT. That study has now been published in another journal.
Here is a lie-by-lie refutation of the propaganda distributed by the MSM about the Seralini study:
Wrong rats used: They were the same rats Monsanto had used in a 90 day trial. The Sprague-Dawley (SD) strain has a life expectancy of 24 to 36 months. Just right for a two year study that’s intended to replicate the life span of a human.
SD Rats Tend to Have Spontaneous Tumors: True, around 30% of SD rats get cancer symptoms without test induced provocations. Again, this mimics human statistics on cancer. More SD rats fed well under maximum regulatory amounts of Roundup along with the Roundup Ready corn developed tumors than the control rats within four to seven months of the study. The exposed rats also died earlier than the non-exposed control rats.
Too few Rats: The short Monsanto study used 20 rats for each group. But, they only checked urine and serum samples of 10 in each group. The Seralini study used 10 for each grouping, but they tested urine and serum samples from all 10.
Insufficient Amount of Rats for Proving Carcinogenicity: The title of the study tells us that proving carcinogenicity was not Seralini’s intent, it was a long term toxicity study. Tumors were incidental, but are required to be reported without drawing conclusions in toxicity studies. Seralini reported without conclusions about cancer. The rats who were exposed showed signs of liver, kidney, and pancreatic damage.
Seralini’s conclusion was that Roundup herbicide and Roundup resistant GMO corn is not safe and further studies are necessary before approving it.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Scientists explain why the retraction of the study is not scientifically justified:
http://www.endsciencecensorship.org/en/page/retraction-intro#.U3M-l8fgXn0
182 scientists condemn the retraction:
http://www.endsciencecensorship.org/en/page/Statement#signed-by
1352 scientists boycott Elsevier over the retraction:
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Open_letter_to_FCT_and_Elsevier.php#form
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Here Are The Top 10 Worst GMO Foods for Your GMO Foods List
http://naturalsociety.com/top-10-worst-gmo-foods-list/
Jun 05, 2014 @ 07:29:30
Corporate Socialism alive and well in America – Fast Forward
Published on Jan 17, 2014
Companies are able to extort tax revenue out of state governments in a broken capitalist system based on private profits and public losses, says Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston in this episode of Fast Forward. (April 30, 2012)Companies are able to extort tax revenue out of state governments in a broken capitalist system based on private profits and public losses, says Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston in this episode of Fast Forward. (April 30, 2012)no description availableno description availableno description availableCompanies are able to extort tax revenue out of state governments in a broken capitalist system based on private profits and public losses, says Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston in this episode of Fast Forward. (April 30, 2012)Companies are able to extort tax revenue out of state governments in a broken capitalist system based on private profits and public losses, says Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston in this episode of Fast Forward. (April 30, 2012)DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, first of all, they say they offer cheaper goods. I dont accept that thats necessarily true.
But heres what happens. And this is a good example of where the news media hasnt done a good job. I have tons of news clips that say, oh, this new shopping mall is coming or a new Wal-Mart or a new Cabelas store, and thanks to tax increment financing, this store is going to be built. Well, what is tax increment financing? Ill tell you what it is. You go to the store with your goods, you pay for it at Wal-Mart, and theres a very good chance that that store has made a deal with the government that the sales taxes you are required to pay, that government requires you to pay, never go to the government. Instead, those sales taxes are kept by Wal-Mart and used to pay the cost of the store. And typically in those deals, the store is tax exempt, just like a church.
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And I tell about a man named Jim Weaknecht who owned a little store in the Poconos of Pennsylvania. He sold fishing tackle, hunting gear, stuff like that. And the way he made his living in his little tiny store, enough that he was able to have his wife stay at home and raise their three kids full time, was by charging less than a company called Cabelas. Well, then Cabelas came to town. This little city of 4,000 people made a deal to give Cabelas 36 million to build a store. Thats more than the city budget for that town for ten years. Its 8,000 for every man, woman, and child in that town to have this store. And even though he charged lower prices, he was pretty quickly run out of business.
Thats not market capitalism, which is what Ronald Reagan said he was going to bring us. He said, you know, governments the problem, we need markets as a solution. Well, thats not the market. Thats corporate socialism. And what weve gotten is corporate socialism for the politically connected rich—not all the rich, the politically connected rich—and market capitalism for everybody else.
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…An estimated 10,000 people marched in Los Angeles this past weekend, in support of organized labor, and in reaction to anti-union legislation passed in Wisconsin. In London, up to 500,000 people protested what they call brutal cuts in jobs and services. Will numbers in the US soon resemble what we see in Europe, and across North Africa and the Middle East? Ben Cohen, Editor of TheDailyBanter.com weighs in.
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