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Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini
Legal Victory against Public Misinformation and Scientific Fraud • Healthcare Politics •
GMO: Genetically Manipulated Organisms • Public Health • Environmental Medicine
Dr Séralini’s team and CRIIGEN win two court cases
about their research on toxicity of GMOs and pesticides
Claire Robinson, GMWatch.org
Pro-GMO lobbyists indicted for forgery and defamation
On 25 November 2015, the High Court of Paris indicted Marc
Fellous, former chairman of France’s Biomolecular
Engineering Commission, for “forgery" and “the use of
forgery”, in a libel trial that he lost to Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini.
The Biomolecular Engineering Commission has authorized
many GM crops for consumption.
The details of the case have not yet been publicly released
but a source close to the case told GMWatch that Fellous had
used or copied the signature of a scientist without his
agreement to argue that Séralini and his co-researchers were
wrong in their re-assessment of Monsanto studies.
The Séralini team’s re-assessment reported finding signs of
toxicity in the raw data from Monsanto’s own rat feeding
studies with GM maize.
The sentence against Fellous has not yet been passed and is
expected in June 2016.
Defamation case
The latest ruling marks a second court victory for Séralini’s
team. In September 2012, an article written by Jean-Claude
Jaillette in Marianne magazine said that “researchers around
the world” had voiced “harsh words” about the research of
Séralini and his team on the toxic effects of a GMO and
Updates: The most complete version of this article—specifically including any changes or additions—is available at http://intjhumnutrfunctmed.org/
Citation: Robinson C. Dr Séralini’s team and CRIIGEN win two court cases about their research on toxicity of GMOs and pesticides. Int J Hum Nutr
Funct Med 2015;v3q4:p2.
Roundup over a long term period –
research that was supported by the
independent organization CRIIGEN. The
journalist wrote of a “scientific fraud in
which the methodology served to reinforce
pre-determined results”.
Séralini, his team, and CRIIGEN
challenged this allegation in a defamation
lawsuit. They were assisted by the notaries
Bernard Dartevelle and Cindy Gay.
On 6 November 2015, after a criminal
investigation lasting three years, the 17th
Criminal Chamber of the High Court of
Paris passed sentence. Marianne magazine
and its journalist were fined for public
defamation of a public official and public
defamation of the researchers and of
CRIIGEN, which is chaired by Dr Joel
Spiroux de Vendômois.
The trial demonstrated that the original
author of the fraud accusation, prior to
Marianne, was the American lobbyist
Henry I. Miller in Forbes magazine.
Miller had previously lobbied to
discredit research linking tobacco to
cancer and heart disease on behalf of the
tobacco industry. Since then he has tried to
do the same in support of GMOs and
pesticides, through defamation.
The long-term toxicity study by
Séralini’s team was republished after the
journal Food and Chemical Toxicology
retracted it under pressure from lobbyists.
Séralini’s team has just published a
summary of the toxic effects of Roundup
below regulatory thresholds.
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Editor’s note: Republication of Dr Seralini’s landmark research and other
articles of high importance
History: Dr Seralini’s important research was retracted when the original journal
spontaneously hired a new “associate editor” with ties to Monsanto; especially in
America’s corporate-controlled press, this was reported as evidence of flawed
research methodology despite the obvious financial-political motivations and
influence and also despite the fact that none of the formal criteria for retraction
were met.
Republication: Seralini et al. Long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a
Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize. Environmental Sciences Europe 2014:
www.enveurope.com/content/26/1/14
Additional citations of high relevance and importance:
1. Drs Fugh-Berman and Sherman provided an expert commentary and
contextualization of these events in the BioEthics Forum:
www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=6684&blogid=140
2. Results of this study show that Monsanto's genetically modified corn increases
inflammation and causes immune system abnormalities consistent with the
development of inflammatory, allergic, and autoimmune conditions:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf802059w
3. Glyphosate tolerant GM soybeans contain high residues of glyphosate and
AMPA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814613019201
4. Glyphosate induces human breast cancer cells growth via estrogen receptors:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691513003633
5. An insightful and courageous essay by Paul Craig Roberts PhD (economics) who
is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury
www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/26/one-nation-under-monsanto/
6. If you’ve ever had to fight legal battles, then you know they are exhausting and
expensive. Please support the legal fund and scientific work of Dr Seralini:
https://www.leetchi.com/fr/Contribution/ChooseMedium/1286097?key=2ffe3277
Appeal for funding for CRIIGEN
These court actions have taken up an
enormous amount of energy and funds.
CRIIGEN cannot survive without public
support. This is why the CRIIGEN team is
making a call for donations to support past
and future legal cases and independent
research:
https://www.leetchi.com/c/solidarite-dele-criigen--association-du-pr-seralini
History of this publication
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http://gmwatch.org/news/latestnews/16557 and is re-published with kind
permission of Claire Robinson MPhil.
Video review of glyphosate: ICHNFM’s 2014 “Toxic chemical of the year”
1. Short version: https://vimeo.com/115304371
2. Full version with social context: https://youtu.be/f7tFzRRUREM
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