Seralini, who agreed to join us via Skype, was the best the anti-biotech campaigners had to offer.

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Dr. Seralini has even been critiqued by the European Union itself over his use of statistical techniques.

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The lead author, Gilles-Eric Seralini, certainly has some very strong views on the subject of GM crops.

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The fallout continues to escalate over the questionable maize study by Gilles-Eric Seralini released almost two weeks ago.

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It references a review by Seralini et al. (them, again) entitled Genetically modified crops safety assessments: present limits and possible improvements.

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The recent hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini GM maize study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetically modified crops has obscured another line of attack on biotechnology: claims that GM crops are environmentally unfriendly.

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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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