“Yes, GMOs are poisons," screamed the front cover of last week's issue of the respectable French news weekly, Le Nouvel Observateur. The blatantly fallacious headline was the opening salvo in a blitz of media coverage about research published online in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology. The paper, from a research group led by Gilles-Eric Seralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen in France, claimed to show that consumption of a genetically modified (GM) maize (corn) that had already been approved for animal and human consumption and of the herbicide Roundup greatly elevates rates of cancer and other illnesses, and causes premature deaths, in rats.
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