Was Seralini GMO study designed to generate negative outcome?

Jay Byrne at Storify:

The science & academic reaction appears to be overwhelming critical of this study funded and conducted by opponents of ag-biotech. Rats predisposed to tumors and cancer, non-standard statistical analyses and refusing to release data for peer review? Sounds fishy!

Were these anti-GMO research claims about health risks rigged from the start? French media reports the Seralini research group engaged in bizarre tactics in orchestrating the publicity around their claims in coordination with anti-biotechnology campaigners around the globe. They used encrypted emails, issued disinformation about a "decoy study," prevented their researchers from making outside phone calls, and required strict non-disclosure agreements preventing journalists from getting independent review of the work from third-party sources.
Even Marion Nestle, a frequent critic of biotech and organic supporter, doesn't believe these claims. She told the Washington Post, "I can’t figure it out yet. It’s weirdly complicated and unclear on key issues: what the controls were fed, relative rates of tumors, why no dose relationship, what the mechanism might be. I can’t think of a biological reason why GMO corn should do this... I’m skeptical of this study.”...

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