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Don't Fear the Engineer.(concerns regarding genetically altered crops)(Brief Article)
Don't Fear the Engineer Ronald Bailey, "Dr. Strangelunch," in Reason (January 2001), 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard #400, Los Angeles, California 90034.
Environmental activists are campaigning against genetically modified food. Bailey, Reason's science correspondent, finds no evidence for their claims:
* Eating genetically modified food is dangerous. Last April, the National Research Council reported it could not find "any evidence suggesting that foods on the market today are unsafe to eat as a result of genetic modification." The few studies claiming genetically modified food is harmful are highly controversial. For example, in 1999 The Lancet published a study by Arpad Pusztai claiming that some people who ate genetically modified potatoes suffered organ damage. The Lancet also published a critique stating that Pusztai's experiments were "incomplete, included too few animals per diet group, and lacked controls" and thus "do not allow the conclusion" the potatoes were dangerous. Pusztai was then sacked for publicizing research which hadn't been peer-reviewed.
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