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  Genetically Modified Science

   The manipulation and corruption of GM science has been an ongoing scandal for almost 20 years now. There is now a long dossier of research manipulation and malpractice involving the corporations who claim to own patents on life forms. My organization has been banging on about this for years:
  http://www.gmfreecymru.org/pivotal_papers/corruption08.ht ...
  http://www.gmfreecymru.org/pivotal_papers/manipulation.ht ...
  Our main concern -- on the ethical front -- is that the bulk of research put into the GM
  approval dossiers in the USA and the EU is Advocacy Research, containing cherry-picked results and conveniently omitting everything inconvenient -- ie showing damage to animals and humans, and harm to the environment. There is also a great deal of manipulation of experimental design and use of statistical trickery to eliminate significance. Even more severe, in
  Europe we are all aware that the research contained in the "approval dossiers" is NON-REPLICABLE because the patent owners will not make available to truly independent researchers their GM reference materials or GM feed for animal feeding studies. Nobody should ever accept non-replicable research -- in any branch of science --  as valid, but the regulators do it all the time. And the result?  In the USA, GM contamination is everywhere, and God only knows what the long-term effects of eating GM foods are going to be for the population at large.  The USA is already starting to reap the whirlwind, and we are fighting hard to stop the same thing happening in Europe.On How biotech companies control research on GMO crops posted 9 months, 1 week ago 6 Responses