Letter to the editor regarding publication of research by Stanley Ewen and Arpad Pusztai regarding effects of genetically modified potatoes on rat small intestines.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02236
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Pages 79-92 in Jane M. Perkins and Nancy Blyler (eds.), Narrative and profssional communication, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut. 224 pages.
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.