Some scientists have criticized genetic engineering of food crops on both scientific and ethical grounds for many years, but the Cornell study represents some of the first evidence of possible problems associated with genetically engineered food crops.
On the positive side, they can benefit from jurors' misguided notion that science solves crimes, and hence that the absence of crime-solving scientific evidence constitutes a reasonable doubt and grounds for acquittal.
Norris' lawyer said the appeal will be based on the grounds that about two thirds of the way through the trial what had been a scientific case about forensic evidence became a case about a surveillance video of the men.
The National Academy of Science has criticized the EPA on similar grounds, and leading toxicologists have said that the agency is out of step with the scientific consensus.