This letter has been signed by scientists and non-scientists from different countries - add your name. This letter has been subject to cyber-attack by a group on Facebook called GMO LOL whose members have been signing on as fake scientists. These people are insulting concerned scientists who are acting in good faith; just the sort of people you want messing with your food, or telling you what food is safe.
We have put in extra checks and our many friends are reporting them to us. According to COPE, the only grounds for retraction are 1 clear evidence that the findings are unreliable due to misconduct or honest error, 2 plagiarism or redundant publication, or 3 unethical research. This arbitrary, groundless retraction of a published, thoroughly peer-reviewed paper is without precedent in the history of scientific publishing, and raises grave concerns over the integrity and impartiality of science.
These concerns are heightened by a sequence of events surrounding the retraction:. The retraction is erasing from the public record results that are potentially of very great importance for public health. It is censorship of scientific research, knowledge, and understanding, an abuse of science striking at the very heart of science and democracy, and science for the public good.
We urge you to reverse this appalling decision, and further, to issue a fulsome public apology to Seralini and his colleagues. Until you accede to our request, we will boycott Elsevier, i.
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