The Pusztai affair is a controversy that began in 1998. The protein scientist Árpád Pusztai went public with the initial results of unpublished research he was conducting at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, investigating the possible effects of genetically modified potatoes upon rats. Pusztai claimed that the genetically modified potatoes had stunted growth and repressed the rats' immune systems while thickening their gut mucosa. Initially supported by the Rowett Institute, his comments on a British television programme caused a storm of controversy, and the Rowett Institute withdrew its support. Pusztai was suspended and misconduct procedures were used to seize his data and ban him from speaking publicly. The institute did not renew his annual contract and Pusztai was criticized by the Royal Society and some other scientists for making an announcement before his experiment was complete or peer-reviewed and for the experiment's design, methodology and analysis. Some of the data from the study was eventually published in The Lancet in 1999 after five out of six peer reviewers approved of the study[1] – triggering further controversy.
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The Pusztaiaffair is a controversy that began in 1998. The protein scientist Árpád Pusztai went public with the initial results of unpublished research...
22, 1998, an interview on Granada Television's current affairs programme World in Action, Pusztai said that rats fed on the potatoes had stunted growth...
insects. This variety of potatoes is the one which was involved in the Pusztaiaffair. Other similar research - into transgenic Désirées, with antifeedant...
The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist...
University; biologist John Gatehouse of the University of Durham, and the Pusztaiaffair at The Rowett Institute; Helen Browning, Chairman of the Soil Association;...
and started the so-called Pusztaiaffair. A subsequent review of Pusztai's work by the Royal Society showed that Pusztai's experiments were poorly designed...
academic condemnation against the researchers such as the Pusztaiaffair and the Séralini affair. Government regulation of GMO development and release varies...
of genetically modified potatoes (see the Pusztaiaffair). Subsequent peer review and testimony by Dr. Pusztai led the House Science and Technology Select...
self-regulation. The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs stated that "genetic interventions to enhance traits should be considered...
organic crops Response to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs consultation paper" Archived 25 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine. October...
science stories" by the British newspapers (the other two are the Arpad Pusztaiaffair about genetically modified crops, and Chris Malyszewicz and the MRSA...
2019). "CRISPR'd babies: human germline genome editing in the 'He Jiankui affair'". Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 6 (1): 111–183. doi:10.1093/jlb/lsz010...
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