ROYAL SOCIETY TO OVERSEE UK'S GM CROP TRIAL PUBLIC (30/1/2003) | |
30 January 2003 ROYAL SOCIETY TO OVERSEE GM TRIAL PUBLICATION This is a highly disturbing development. The Royal Society have, of course, been involved in a whole series of scandals involving peer review - witness their recent publication of the flawed Monsanto-sponsored 'skylark' research and the accompanying media hype stemming from the Royal Society's press release. That's quite apart, of course, from the Royal Society's own unrequested partial 'peer review' of Dr Pusztai's research, described by the editor of the Lancet as an act of breathtaking impertinence; the threats and orchestrated attacks occasioned by the Lancet's publication of Pusztai and Ewen's research; not to mention the claim in the Royal Society's last report on GM that Pusztai's research had been replicated which was referenced not to any peer reviewed research but to an opinion piece!!!! Short of Monsanto itself, it's hard to think of any organisation in the world one could have less confidence in to undertake such a task. *** Peerless logic Paul Brown |