According to the Corbett Report,

“In September of last year, an international research team led by Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen published a landmark study in the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology. The study, titled “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize,” purported to show adverse health effects on groups of rats fed Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and Roundup Ready corn, including liver congestions, necrosis, tumors and early death.”

However, the study has been retracted, but not without controversy. William Engdahl points out in a new op-ed, “EFSA argued that Seralini had used the wrong kind of rats, not enough rats and that the statistical analysis was inadequate. By these standards, all toxicity studies on glyphosate and GMOs should be retracted because they used the same type and approximate number of rats as those in the Séralini study.” Thumbnail credit: globalresearchreport.com.

Over 150 scientists have called for the study to be reinstated, while the situation surrounding the retraction of this study and a few others has shed light on how corporate interests have the ability to determine what is considered “mainstream science”.