Proving the principle that putting the words "Causes Cancer" in a headline behind literally any other string of words will guarantee you some news coverage, a French study showing a link between cancer in rats and genetically modified corn has been getting a lot of play over the last couple of days, with a truly heartening proportion of the coverage calling shenanigans on the study. Today, author
Gilles-Eric Seralini is defending the study, even as he
refuses to turn over his data to ESFA, the European Union's food safety watchdog for a counter study.
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