Manuela Malatesta: The Italian researcher found that Monsanto’s
GM soy disturbed the functioning of the liver, pancreas and testes of mice. , , ,
After she published her papers, she says she was forced out of her job
at the university where she had worked for 10 years, and could not
obtain funding to follow up her research.
She commented: ‘Research on GMOs is now taboo. You can’t find money
for it… People don’t want to find answers to troubling questions. It’s
the result of widespread fear of Monsanto and GMOs in general.’
Commenting on these cases, Michael Antoniou, a London-based molecular
geneticist, says the normal scientific response to worrying findings is
to design more experiments to get to the bottom of whether there really
is a health concern or environmental impact.
Yet in the area of
GM crops and foods, this does not happen. Instead, Antoniou says, ‘the
GMO
lobby attempts to discredit the study and the scientists who conducted
it. It’s despicable and unprecedented in the history of science.’
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