"Whitehall admits GM foe was 'martyred'" 

       Rob Evans
       Saturday June 22, 2002
       The Guardian 

       The campaign to discredit an "ageing and frail" scientist who
       raised doubts about the safety of genetically modified foods
       turned him into a martyr, according to Whitehall papers.

       Dr Pusztai, 72, became entangled in a long running controversy
       after he publicised the results of his experiments at the Rowett
       research institute in Aberdeen, which indicated that genetically
       modified potatoes had harmed rats. 

       The memos were obtained by the Guardian and the BBC during
       an investigation into the development of GM foods for a
       programme, Bitter Harvest, to be shown tomorrow. 

       In July 1999, a few months into the controversy, an official in
       the then ministry of agriculture, food and fisheries wrote that 
       the "handling of the Pusztai issue is one which concerns me and 
       I am not sure that we have learned the lessons." 

       Dr Pusztai was told to retire from his research institute after 
       he described on a television programme how rats had become
       stunted, and their immune systems had been depressed, when
       they were fed genetically altered potatoes. 

       Ministers sought to undermine his results, and scientists from
       opposing camps fought over the validity of the work. A group
       from the Royal Society, Britain's most distinguished scientific
       body, investigated his experiments and claimed that the tests
       were "flawed in many aspects of design, execution and analysis". 

       The Maff official noted: "The sight of this heavy handed scientific
       community bringing its full academic prejudice to bear on this
       frail, ageing scientist lost much of the case on sympathy and
       fairness grounds." 

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,741767,00.html

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       "Perceptions" note: 
       We're not surprised at treatment inflicted on the lone scientist,
       it's done all the time, to any honest person who tries to tell 
       the truth to politicians and bureaucrats who don't _want_ the 
       truth 

       But we, the public, _need_ the truth. Or we'll never know what
       the secretive politicians and bureaucrats are planning to inflict
       on _us_ 

       science cover-ups at 
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/greatest.html and  

       medical / health cover-ups at 
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/medical.html  and

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