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Elsevier Announces Article Retraction from Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology

http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-a...

"...the Editor-in-Chief found no evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data. However, there is a legitimate cause for concern regarding both the number of animals in each study group and the particular strain selected. The low number of animals had been identified as a cause for concern during the initial review process, but the peer review decision ultimately weighed that the work still had merit despite this limitation. A more in-depth look at the raw data revealed that no definitive conclusions can be reached with this small sample size regarding the role of either NK603 or glyphosate in regards to overall mortality or tumor incidence. Given the known high incidence of tumors in the Sprague-Dawley rat, normal variability cannot be excluded as the cause of the higher mortality and incidence observed in the treated groups."
 

The infamous Seralini study which hypothesized increased tumor generation in rats due to a GMO corn diet has been RETRACTED.  That's how REAL SCIENCE works!  A published paper must attain validity by in a process of astute review and analysis by scientists in the field - it's called "peer review". This paper did not prove to be up to standards due to a number of factors and the criticisms came from the scientific community as a whole, not from Monsanto!  The Seralini study suffers greatly from the use of small sample size, dubious or total lack of statistical analysis, ambiguous results concluded from questionable and even nonsensical data subsets, selection of a rat strain which maximizes confounding the data (the strain selected is well known for spontaneous tumor generation), and poor ethical treatment of the animals for possible dramatic effect. ANYONE who continues to reference this study to support a position that GMO has health risks forfeits their credibility.

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