Internet forums are full of various cheerful and not very funny things, but fears in this area, play an important role. There was quite a lot of fears, but this fear is interested me the most.
"What if people start to die out of the collusion of pharmaceutical companies or global virus? And if it is worse, they will undergo an uncontrolled mutation, which will forever lead humanity to imminent death?
Let's look at this from the perspective of this issue:
-GMO. Genetically modified foods will kill us. This is the end for us and nothing can save us. A little bit of the chicken with the genome of meat can kill all of us if we only try it.
-No. This is terrible stupidity and is not true. «Over the past 10 years, more than 1,500 studies on the safety of GMOs have been published, and none of them confirmed the conclusion about their toxicity or any negative properties» said Alexander Panchin to one of the news channels. For a minute, Candidate of Biological Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems. However, those scientists who fiercely provide that GMO products kill the people have falsified their own researches. Yes, for example, the British expert on proteins Arpad Pustai that in August 1998, made a statement on television in which he was said: the rats that eat potatoes, have abnormalities in growth, impaired function of the organs and suppression of the immune system. Based on this, he concluded about the danger transgenic food. It got to the point that in October 1999, the British magazine The Lancet decided to publish the article of Arpad, and this is among other things one of the most authoritative medical journals of the West (link in the description).
In this article it was said that long-term feeding of rats with transgenic potatoes causes changes in the mucosa of the digestive tract
However, for my part, in defense of the journal I want to say that in November of the same year he published critical reviews of the article. The reviews indicated that the results of the experiments were unreliable.
The diet of both groups of rats which consisted of transgenic and conventional potatoes was not the same in terms of the amount of protein in it, and also changes in the mucosa could be caused by a transition to an atypical diet for rats. Because this measurements in the control group were not performed. About the experiments of Ermakova or Gilles-Eric Seralini, I generally keep quiet, because if the error of Arpad can still be attributed to the failure of prepare a full-fledged "examination of the problem from all sides," the last two consciously changed the course of research in their favor. I omit the details, where the first took already pre-doomed mice, and the second made a statistical mistake in the use of him methods.
The main fact is that with the development of studying the influence of GMOs products, supporters of their "safety" among scientists have increase.
And if competent people in these things deal and support it, then why should we be afraid of this?