Seralini debate continues
Retraction Watch on the Seralini study
http://retractionwatch.com/2013/11/28/controversial-seralini-gmo-rats-paper-to-be-retracted/
This was published on November 28, before FCT retracted the Seralini study, hence the future tense of this Retraction Watch article. Read the comments also!
A heavily criticized study of the effects of genetically modified maize and the Roundup herbicide on rats is being retracted — one way or another.
This was published on November 28, before FCT retracted the Seralini study, hence the future tense of this Retraction Watch article. Read the comments also!
CONTROVERSIAL SERALINI GMO-RATS PAPER TO BE RETRACTED
A heavily criticized study of the effects of genetically modified maize and the Roundup herbicide on rats is being retracted — one way or another.
The paper — by Gilles Seralini and colleagues — was published in Food and Chemical Toxicology last year. There have been calls for retraction since then, along with other criticism and a lengthy exchange of letters in the journal. Meanwhile, the paper has been cited 28 times, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge, and the French National Assembly (their lower house of Parliament) held a long hearing on the paper last year, with Seralini and other scientists testifying.
Now, as reported in the French media, the editor of the journal, A. Wallace Hayes, has sent Seralini a letter saying that the paper will be retracted if Seralini does not agree to withdraw it.
Nature on the Seralini retraction
http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268
Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted
Publisher withdraws paper despite authors' objections, citing weak evidence.
Gilles-Eric Séralini was the lead author of a study, now withdrawn by the publisher, that purportedly showed that genetically modified maize causes tumours in rats.
CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/GETTYIMAGES
