Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice
by rfugger on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:21AM
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Study from 2009. I wonder why I haven't heard much about this.
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Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice
by pyre on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:24AM
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Either because it was debunked or because corn farmers have a large lobby/subsidies/etc. Take your pick, though the first theory is probably easier to prove that the second one.
Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice
by luu on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:37AM
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You can see studies which cite that study (which would include debunkings) by doing a google scholar search: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3661119272352849363&...
One of the those studies has this to say about the study linked by the OP: "Weaknesses in the statistical methods used for reanalysis (see Doull et al. . .) " [1].
That paper also has a nice summary of other studies on GM foods.
[1] G. Flachowsky and C. Wenk, The role of animal feeding trials for the nutritionaland safety assessment of feeds from genetically modified plants – Present stage and future challenges, Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences, 19, 2010, 149–170
Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice
by 16s on Friday January 21, 2011 @06:23AM
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Corn farmers have children and eat corn too.
Re:Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice
by silentbicycle on Friday January 21, 2011 @01:09AM
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Either funding for repeat studies have been choked, or they had unsurprising results. At least they gave passably good instructions to duplicate their findings - beats many CS papers.
Regardless of what it says, my experience is that GE corn tastes bland. Maybe due to shipping.