This Sunday, October 14, at 6:00 pm Mountain Time, GMOs are on the menu. The Skeptically Speaking podcast will host Kevin Folta, Karl Haro von Mogel, and I for a discussion about biotechnology. Send in your questions to Skeptically Speaking and tune in on Sunday (or listen to the podcast).
If you aren’t able to send in your questions by Sunday – Of course, as always, you can also post questions and comments in the Biofortified forum or send them in via our contact form.
References for the Interview
On the Seralini paper:
VIB response to the paper. (The Flemish Interuniversity for Biotechnology)
Cosmos Magazine on The Seralini Affair.
Keith Kloor discussed the paper in this article on Slate about science and politics.
Carl Zimmer:
From Darwinius to GMOs: Journalists Should Not Let Themselves Be Played
That GMO-cancer study? It gets worse.
Link to the Snell review of 24 long-term and multi-generational trials.
Other discussion topics:
GENERA Project
This is great! To hear all of you in one conversation in real time, with a smart host, sweet. I listen to these quite often.
For the regulars here: you want to join the chat that goes on during the taping, get a UStream login ahead of time. It usually takes a couple of tries for me to get in, for reasons I cannot explain. But the chats are fun–sometimes a bit of MST3K-ish chatter, but also a way to submit questions.
I told you the chat was fun–the centipede chickens, how could you resist…???
Here’s a long list of links related to the recent Seralini paper if anyone is interested.
Too bad I missed the chatroom! It was a fun show to do, and I’m definitely open to doing a lot more things like this.
Holy crap I was wondering when you were going to get on a podcast Anastasia.
always late to the event.
How is it that growing corn and soybeans on class one farmland and still using
vast amount of industrial inputs all the while draining down aquifers to turn
out little more than animal feed, fuel for gas guzzling cars and corn sugar for
soft drinks and other sugary substances with the inch gaining result. Just how
is that in the realm of desirable?
Did anyone here say that was desirable? I don’t recall saying that.