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🌿 GMO Foods: Friend or Foe? 🌿

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[charlesmrader]

GMOs have been linked to ... Around 1996, I learned what this can mean in an anti-GMO message. I was a member of Greenpeace, and I was sent a little article about the the quite new glyphosate tolerant soybeans, which I knew nothing about. I wasn't convinced by the leaflet that this was a bad thing but I thought I could learn more about it.

One of the "facts" in the leaflet was the claim that glyphosate had been linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, complete with a reference to a scientific paper by two Swedish epidemiologists, complete with their names, title, Journal name, pages, etc.

It happened that at that time, I was trying to learn Swedish, just beginning, but I thought it would be cool to try to readthe actual paper, and since you could then find just about anything on line, I searched for the paper and I found it. Ironically, it was in English.

The authors had prepared a questionnaire which they gave to two groups. One group was patients who had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the other group did not. The questionnaire had a long list of agricultural chemicals and each participant was asked, for each chemical on the list, whether he had been exposed to it. Glyphosate was one of the chemicals on the list. For each chemical, the authors had computed something called an odds ratio, which was essentially a ratio of correlation coefficients.

If the odds ratio for an agricultural chemical was high that was evidence for that chemical and the disease having a relationship. There were a number of agricultural chemicals for which the odds ratio was significantly high. For glyphosate the odds ratio was not very high although it was more than one. The authors specifically wrote that the glyphosate odds ratio was not statistically significant. In fact, there were four cases of glyphosate exposure among the patients with NHL and four cases of glyphosate among the healthy subjects.

So here's the bottom line. The link, the only link, between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and glyphosate was that glyphosate was one of the chemicals on the questionnaire.

Of course, you were supposed to believe that "linked to" meant "can cause".

I've subsequently, over all the intervening years since 1996, seen many examples of anti-GMO literature using the same kind of trick. For example, the claim that GMO foods might cause allergies would be true if the sentence said "GMO foods might cause allergies but never have because there are steps taken to prevent that."