ISIS Press Release 04/12/07
When ISIS organised its briefing at European Parliament in
June (Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe, SiS 35), we
already knew that one of our speakers, Irina Ermakova, has
had her funding withdrawn because the results of her
experiments (GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile,
SiS 33) challenged the claims of the biotech industry that
GM food is safe. She has since been the victim of a
scandalous attempt to discredit her work by the mainstream
journal, Nature Biotechnology (Science and Scientist Abused,
SiS 36).
We have now learned that a second member of our panel of
scientists, Christian Vélot, has lost his funding.
There is a committee of support for Vélot and they have
organised a petition that has already attracted 6000
signatures. You can sign it on line by going to
http://sciencescitoyennes.org/spip.php?article1638
Please sign the petition and send the link to your friends.
The biotech industry is working very hard to suppress
independent science and scientists; we must do all we can to
fight it.
A list of the members of the committee is available at
Translation of the petition:
Christian Vélot is a lecturer and researcher in molecular
genetics at the Université Paris-Sud. Since 2002 he has led
a research group in the Institute of Genetics and
Microbiology (a joint CNRS-University institute) at the
Orsay Scientific Centre. In addition to carrying out his
teaching and research, he has devoted some of his own time
to meetings on GMOs. These meetings, one of which in
particular served as a working document for the GMO
activists at the Grenelle de l’Environnement [a series of
meetings in October 2007 in which representatives from
government, professional associations and NGOs discussed
environmental issues].
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