Seralini and his team
in Normandie, France in 2013. Via: GMOSeralini.org
Was French Prof.
Gilles-Eric Séralini correct when he discovered that scientific feeding
experiments past 90 days with GMO food and rats can cause serious health
problems including tumors?
The answer to that
question has been debated ever since the initial publication of his study,
culminating in a republication of the study in another peer-reviewed journal
that wasn’t nearly as well covered as the initial retraction was by the
mainstream media.
Now, Prof. Séralini is
in the news again – this time for winning a major court victory in a libel
trial that represents the second court victory for Séralini and his team in
less than a month.
On November 25, the
High Court in Paris indicted Marc Fallous, the former chairman of France’s
Biomolecular Engineering Commission, for “forgery” and the “use of forgery.”
The details of the case have not been officially released.
But according to this
article from the Séralini website, Fallous used or copied the signature of a
scientist whose name was used, without his agreement, to argue that Séralini
and his co-workers were wrong in their studies on Monsanto products, including
GM corn.
A sentencing for
Fallous is expected in June 2016.
This was the second
such court victory for the professor’s team, following a November 6 victory in
a defamation lawsuit over an article in the French Marianne magazine which
categorized the Séralini team research as “scientific fraud (you can read more
about the case here).”
What few people realize
about the original Séralini study on GMOs is that it was only retracted after a
serious PR offensive from Monsanto and the Biotech industry, one that included
the creation of a whole new position on the original Food and Toxicology journal:
Associate Editor for Biotechnology.
The new position was
actually filled by a former Monsanto employee who helped convince the journal’s
author to retract the study.
Now more than 2 years
later, these are the facts: Séralini and his team’s original study has been
republished in a different peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Sciences
Europe; they have won two key lawsuits against those who have attempted to ruin
their reputations; and a recent peer-reviewed letter even asserted that
Séralini and his team may have been right after all on their discovery showing
tumors in lab rats fed GMOs.
In other words, the
jury is still out on GMO safety to say the very least, just as countless
independent scientists have warned, and Séralini’s study stands as yet another
cause for concern with the ongoing GMO experiment. It also shows the lengths
that the Biotech industry will go to in order to discredit any independent
science that clashes with their own version of science.
By Nick Meyer On
November 30, 2015
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