>Hoping to read Mr. Oliver's own paper he mentioned.

Hi Jo,  I just searched my files to see if I'd written down any notes when
I was discussing the paper with others when it first came out.
Unfortunately, can't find them : (

I was very curious about the study, and spent considerable time going over
the methodology, the results, and the interpretation.  I found them to be
unconvincing for a number of reasons, as did a number of other objective
persons who were engaged in discussion at the time.  Most egregious was his
keeping Sprague-Dawley alive for two years, and then showing photos of
their mammary tumors as proof of glyphosate's carcinogenicity.

Sprague-Dawley rats are well known for spontaneously developing tumors in
less time than two years.  Allow me to quote from an earlier study:

"A spontaneous tumor incidence of 45% was noted in 360 Sprague-Dawley rats
(179 males and 181 females) ... used as untreated control animals in an 18-
month series of carcinogenesis experiments. The percentage of female rats
with tumors was almost double that of males, which difference was accounted
for chiefly by the high incidence of mammary tumors in the females.
Spontaneous Tumors in Sprague-Dawley Rats and Swiss Mice. (CANCER RESEARCH
33, 2768-2773, November 1973]  There are additional similar studies.

Seralini, as a scientist, had ethical guidelines to follow.  Those rats
should have euthanized when their tumors developed, rather than allowing
them to grow to obscene size simply to make headlines.

I don't have time at the moment to go back over the study (I often spend
hours analyzing a paper).  However, as Jose points out, other researchers
will soon produce plenty of more cancerous rats if indeed Seralini (who has
his own books to promote) was right.  It would be an easy experiment to
replicate.

In fact, the experiment has been being replicated on a large scale with
livestock for a number of years, what with all the use of glyphosate on
animal feed crops.  But according to a thorough review of animal slaughter
records by UC Davis, animal health appears to have improved in recent years.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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