The Monsanto Papers

Corruption of Science and Grievous Harm to Public Health

Gilles-Éric Seralini, Jérôme Douzelet

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781510767645
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Biological Sciences

A David and Goliath battle for truth A 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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword by Vandana Shiva
• The Seralini Affair and Monsanto’s Manipulation of Science by Leemon B. McHenry
• Monsanto vs. Seralini: Pulling Back the Curtain by Michael L. Baum
• Chapter 1: Raising the Curtain
• Chapter 2: Discovery
• Chapter 3: The Way of the Whistleblower
• Chapter 4: The Explosion of 2012
• Chapter 5: It’s True Because We Say So
• Chapter 6: The Making of a Lie
• Chapter 7: Retraction by Corruption
• Chapter 8: The Dark Side of the Shadow Army
• Chapter 9: “A Pain in the Ass”
• Chapter 10: The Cornerstone of the Business of GMOs
• Chapter 11: Fate or a Bulgarian Umbrella?
• Chapter 12: Seralini against the “Scientific Community”
• Chapter 13: Toxic News: The Infiltration of the Media
• Chapter 14: A Society without Rotten Science
• Endnotes
• Glossary: Little Lexicon of Intentional Confusion
• List of Principal Characters in the Book
• Documents of The Seralini Affair
• Acknowledgments
• Books by the Same Authors