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Director Jeffrey Smith refers often to the work of Irina Ermakova on GMO effects, which was rigorously deconstructed by the journal Nature, five years ago. These sorts of studies are the kind we have already mentioned which start out with something to prove and fit the data into that goal. Smith states openly "we can reach the tipping point and push GMOs out of the entire food supply"

From Nature Biotechnology 25, 981 - 987 (2007):

> We conclude that no meaningful inferences can be drawn from these results. The experimental design does not follow internationally recognized protocols that were developed to guide researchers in proper design. The nature of the source material is unknown, the consumption by each animal is unknown and the composition of the diet is unknown. Too few animals were studied and gender differences were not recorded. The abnormally high mortality and low growth rates of the control groups point to poor animal stewardship.

> It is also of concern to us that Ermakova appears never to have published a peer-reviewed paper describing an animal study of this kind nor does training for such studies appear to be in her academic background. We are not suggesting that trained investigators cannot teach themselves to perform a proper study, but this lack of prior experience may explain why Ermakova failed to heed published international protocols for laboratory animal studies (or was unaware of them). 

> In other studies where rats and mice were fed meal from conventional and RR soy for 15 weeks at dietary levels of 30% by weight, there was no evidence of any changes in survival, growth, food consumption, organ weights or histological appearance of tissues in animals fed RR soy soybean meal compared with those fed conventional soy. When rats were fed meal from conventional soy and RR soy (up to 90% of the diet by weight) for 13 weeks, no evidence was obtained of reduced survival, growth retardation, changes in clinical pathology or microscopic appearance of tissues.  ETC.

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