Letter to the editor regarding publication of research by Stanley Ewen and Arpad Pusztai regarding effects of genetically modified potatoes on rat small intestines.
In letter to the editor, Lancet is criticized by a representative of the Biotechnology Industry Organization for placing politics and tabloid sensationalism above its responsibility to report and assess new science.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19625
Notes:
Pages 95-112 in Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody and Carol L. Rogers (eds.), Communicating uncertainty: media coverage of new and controversial science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey. 277 pages.
