Thursday, March 21, 2013

Myth of Independent Science Haunts Biotech Industry

One of the arguments in support of genetically engineered foods (GE or GMO) has been that GMOs are safe because the government approved them after a thorough review of the scientific data. If it turns out, as is the case, that the scientific research is lacking, incomplete, unreliable, under-reported, suppressed, manipulated or has a host of other problems as discussed recently in a Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) report, then the bastion of GMO advocacy crumbles.

The UCS’s report compiles the five basic methods that corporations use to influence scientific and policy making processes:

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Myth of Independent Science Haunts Biotech Industry

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