Richard Ha writes:
Speaking of science, here’s some:
From Real ClearScience, an interesting website whose founding member Dr. Alex B. Berezow(PhD, Microbiology) is the author of ScienceLeft Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left:
MassiveReview Reveals Consensus on GMO Safety
“The scientific research conducted so far has not detected any
significant hazards directly connected with the use of genetically engineeredcrops.”
That’s the conclusion from a team of Italian scientists, who just completeda thorough systematic review of the scientific research conducted ongenetically modified (GM) crops in the past decade. Their work is published inthe journal Critical Review ofBiotechnology.
Led by Alessandro Nicolia, an applied biologist at the University of
Perugia in Italy, the team collected and evaluated 1,783 research papers,reviews, relevant opinions, and reports published between 2002 and 2012, a comprehensive process that took 12 months to complete. The records covered all aspects of GM crop safety, from how the crops interact with the environment, to how they could potentially affect the humans and animals who consume them.
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