Dr Charles Benbrook is to visit Australia soon to comment on crop biotechnology. His approach to crop statistics has frequently raised dissent from other scientists:
Agbioview Fri, 2 Sep 2005
Benbrook on grain quality in Roundup Ready Wheat.
In his latest offering: "Harvest at Risk: Impacts of Roundup Ready Wheat in the Northern Great Plains" (available from www.worc.org), Benbrook makes the claim that the quality of Roundup Ready wheat is not as high as conventional wheat. In his comments, Benbrook not only claims that the composition of grain from Roundup Ready wheat is not equivalent, but that the differences are significant enough to be of concern.
There are two major problems with Benbrook's approach, both of which suggest a deliberate distortion of the evidence by Benbrook. While the numbers reported by Benbrook are correct, the method of display of the values has been deliberately organised to mislead the reader...Continues at Agbioview
Dr. Christopher Preston
Senior Lecturer, Weed Management
University of Adelaide
Update by GMO Pundit: Charles Benbrooks tour of Australia is being promoted by Genethics, Greenpeace and Network of Concerned Farmers
Other posting see Benbrook letter to Zambia
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