Arpad Pusztai on GMO Food Safety
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We break from our usual format to feature a lecture by Arpad Pusztai, the Hungarian-born scientist at the heart of a collision between environmental science and powerful political forces. Eleven years ago, Pusztai published scientific results showing that genetically modified potato causes harm to rats, stirring up a firestorm that ultimately led to the disbandment of his research team and his dismissal from the institute. Perhaps the threatening part of Pusztai’s publication was that it was based on good science, with five out of six peer reviewers giving the publication a thumbs up and subsequent studies finding similar results. In this University of Toronto lecture, Dr. Pusztai details the groundbreaking science that won him the Whistleblower prize from several prominent scientific and legal organizations in 2005. In the second half of the lecture, he moves onto broader issues of private influence on science that bear an uncanny resemblance to today’s lingering political battles over global warming.
You can see the complete episode here: TGM #144: Heading (July 3, 2009)