Overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the study was given to the National Institute of Child Health and Development, with input from a number of advisory and oversight committees, the Director of the NIH, and with the involvement of other government agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency).

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Seralini and his colleagues required that reporters who wanted pre-release access to the study sign a non-disclosure agreement that barred them from seeking input from outside sources including other scientists which, remarkably, many prominent news organizations agreed to.

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