NancyLebovitz comments on Organic food, conventional food - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 October 2012 02:35:14PM *  1 point [-]

Thank you very much!

This looks as though Monstanto's GMO corn could be very dangerous, but I'm not really qualified to judge the study-- for example, what if the strain of rats is unusually vulnerable?

Edited to add: Yeah, tumor-prone rats, and since the 200 rats were divided into 10 groups, small sample sizes. Still, the effects were pretty large.

Orac: The study is nonsensical.

Would other people here care to take a look at that study?

Also, I'm still concerned that lifespan (or even multigenerational) studies are so rare.

Comment author: aelephant 07 October 2012 11:34:15PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for posting the link to Orac. I didn't know he was still posting regularly there. I'm excited to read his dissection of the study when I have some spare time.