Gilles-Éric Seralini – författare

A David and Goliath battle for truthA specialist in GM foods and pesticides, the biologist Gilles-Éric Seralini has studied their toxicity and effects on people's health for many years. In September 2012, for the first time in a major scientific journal (Food and Chemical Toxicology), he published a study showing the effect on the liver and kidneys of two of Monsanto's flagship products: Roundup weedkiller and the GM foods created to absorb it. Images from the study of tumor-ridden rats fed with GM foods and Roundup went viral. The study was a PR disaster for Monsanto.  The multinational soon bounced back and did everything in its power to cover up the study—leaning on the publishers to retract the findings. Monsanto began a series of smear campaigns to discredit Seralini and fellow researchers and intimidate their supporters, while pumping out their own collection of fake research findings and testimonies. These practices were met with huge suspicion, but there was no concrete evidence until, in 2017, Monsanto was ordered to publish tens of thousands of confidential documents in a class-action lawsuit presented by thousands of individuals afflicted with serious illnesses from their use of Roundup. The "Monsanto Papers" that were produced subsequently proved the company’s cynical attempts at a cover-up as well as its fraudulent practices.  Gilles-Éric Seralini and Jérôme Douzelet delved into the documents and discovered how, in the pursuit of its own short term economic interests, Monsanto used sophisticated methods of deceit to bypass legislation devised to protect millions of people. Seralini and Douzelet discovered how Monsanto managed to provide phony assessments to conceal the poisons its products contain, thus deceiving the public authorities and the scientific and medical communities.

A David and Goliath battle for truth A specialist in GM foods and pesticides, the biologist Gilles-ric Seralini has studied their toxicity and effects on peoples health for many years. In September 2012, for the first time in a major scientific journal (Food and Chemical Toxicology), he published a study showing the effect on the liver and kidneys of two of Monsantos flagship products: Roundup weedkiller and the GM foods created to absorb it. Images from the study of tumor-ridden rats fed with GM foods and Roundup went viral. The study was a PR disaster for Monsanto. The multinational soon bounced back and did everything in its power to cover up the studyleaning on the publishers to retract the findings. Monsanto began a series of smear campaigns to discredit Seralini and fellow researchers and intimidate their supporters, while pumping out their own collection of fake research findings and testimonies. These practices were met with huge suspicion, but there was no concrete evidence until, in 2017, Monsanto was ordered to publish tens of thousands of confidential documents in a class-action lawsuit presented by thousands of individuals afflicted with serious illnesses from their use of Roundup. The Monsanto Papers that were produced subsequently proved the company's cynical attempts at a cover-up as well as its fraudulent practices. Gilles-ric Seralini and Jerme Douzelet delved into the documents and discovered how, in the pursuit of its own short term economic interests, Monsanto used sophisticated methods of deceit to bypass legislation devised to protect millions of people. Seralini and Douzelet discovered how Monsanto managed to provide phony assessments to conceal the poisons its products contain, thus deceiving the public authorities and the scientific and medical communities.

En septiembre de 2012, un estudio del biólogo Gilles-Éric Seralini, publicado en la prestigiosa revista científica Food and Chemical Toxicology, hizo temblar los cimientos de la poderosa multinacional Monsanto, líder mundial en ingeniería genética de semillas y producción de herbicidas. El artículo dejaba patentes los efectos en el hígado y en los riñones de los dos productos estrella de la compañía: el glifosato Roundup y determinados organismos modificados genéticamente para absorberlo. El contraataque de Monsanto careció de toda mesura: presiones a los editores para que formalizasen una retractación de los resultados del estudio, campañas para desacreditar e intimidar tanto a Seralini como a todo aquel que lo apoyase, divulgación de investigaciones y testimonios que no eran más que un montaje mayúsculo, y engaño y manipulación de organismos públicos con el fin de sortear las regulaciones que tenían que proteger a la población.La tenacidad de Seralini, con la inestimable «ayuda» de miles de demandas por parte de particulares que habían enfermado gravemente a raíz de haber utilizado Roundup, logró, por fin, en 2017, derribar el muro de impostura e inmunidad que había hecho de oro a los amos de la multinacional. Su valiente investigación, directa al corazón de los Papeles de Monsanto, desentrañó, de rebote, el modo en que se organiza la apropiación indebida de la ciencia, la medicina y los poderes públicos.