Furphies are flying thick and fast at online opinion.

Furphies are flying thick and fast at online opinion.
A whole bunch Posted by NonGMFarmer, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:13:54 PM (Julie Newman, NCF)
Julie started by making a statement that Pusztai foud GM potatoes made rats sick. I challenged that statement by supplying data from the actual paper and asked Julie to interpret it.
In response to direct questions about these data (Pusztai Lancet Report) Julie igonores the published data and replies with:
"There is certainly enough reason to want independent health studies. Pusztai's rats developed potentially precancerous cell growth, damaged immune systems, partial atrophy of the liver and smaller brains, livers and testicles. "
With her silence about the published data Julies concedes that the Pusztai Lancet data are inconclusive.

But the opinions about Pusztai she does voice did not pass the review process at the Lancet. If the ones that did pass are inconclusive, the ones that didn't are truly worthless.


"Preliminary Russian studies on pregnant mice where most offspring died." These are fully dealt with by Chris Preston but nothing to do with Pusztai.
http://gmopundit2.blogspot.com/2005/11/russian-super-myth-resprouts.html


"CSIRO confirmed that unexpected proteins were produced and caused allergenic reactions."

At last a valid statement about a problem with a GM plant. It won't reach consumers - as the project has been ditched. Again nothing to do with Pusztai.
Professional scientist comment is here:
http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2005/11/chrispeels-comments-on-australian-gm.html