Journal or Publishing Institution: Nature Biotechnology
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt1202-1197a
Author(s): Schubert, D.
Article Type: Journal Publication
Record ID: 2300
Text: It is indeed a fortunate facet of science that the quantitative aspect of authorship does not dictate the validity of the conclusions! The impetus for my commentary was my repeated laboratory observation that the slightest genetic modification of a cell leads to completely unpredicted phenotypes. A careful reading of the plant literature supported my conclusions from animal cells. The commentary int-ended to raise this concern in the context of generating further impetus for labeling and stringent testing of GM food. I had no a priori commitment to a particular technology, no pre-existing political ideology, and I did not deliberately ignore any pertinent published material. I do believe, however, that both replies suffer from these problems. They make claims about technology and safety-testing requirements that do not exist, use my statements out of context, and are rather adroit at the use of tenses to skirt questions regarding testing…
Keywords: GM food, safety-testing, labeling
Citation: Schubert, D., 2002. Reply to ‘Divergent perspectives on GM food.’ Nature Biotechnology, 20(12), pp. 1197.
