GEO Watch | Gilles-Eric Séralini | Ignacio Chapela Redux
A CALL TO SCIENTISTS TO BOYCOTT ELSEVIER JOURNALS Moderator’s Note: Over the holiday break we had a repeat of the notoriously unethical case of the journal Nature and its retraction of a rigorous, well-designed and subsequently replicated study. I am, of course, referring to the retraction of the study by Ignacio Chapela and Jonathan Quist verifying introgression of GMO transgenes in Oaxacan native heirloom maize. This time it is the Elsevier, Inc. journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracting a study viewed as “unbiased but inconclusive”. The new retraction involves a widely cited study by a French toxicology team led by Gilles-Eric Séralini et al (2012), which found that rats fed Monsanto GMO corn and glyphosate-contaminated water developed tumors and other abnormalities leading to earlier morbidity compared to a control group fed non-GMO corn and clean water. Rats fed GMO corn in the Séralini study. We reported on the Séralini research project because his researc...