Talk:Árpád Pusztai

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[edit] NPOV

• Have marked this as NPOV disputed, since there seems to be very little reference to disagreements with Pusztai's work that actually have some factual basis to them, and the article just reads in such as way as to seem a bit polemic.

[edit] moved from article to here

I'm cutting and pasting the text below from out of the article since the second paragraph clearly has no place in the article itself as it is editorial discussion.

Initially Pusztai and his team observed a lack of correlation between levels of the lectin in the potato leaves and their toxicity to insects. Subsequently they experimented by feeding rats on raw and cooked genetically modified potatoes, using Desiree Red potatoes as controls. One of the controls was unmodified desiree red potatoes mixed with snowdrop lectin. The rats fed on the genetically modified potatoes showed lower intestine damage and harm to their immune systems. These effects were not observed in rats fed on unmodified potatoes, or unmodified potatoes mixed with snowdrop lectin. The team concluded that the effects observed were a result of the genetic modification, not the snowdrop lectin.

The preceeding paragraph appears to contradict itself, in that the "effects" were and were not observed in unmodified potatoes. I feel the paragraph is at fault in the inclusion of the word "lower" in the 6th line. It should not be there. I'm inserting this paragraph taken from an interview of Dr. Pusztai, on Nov 10, 2000 as read on the Canadian Health Coalition web site, in order to help clarify the preceeding paragraph. http://www.healthcoalition.ca/pusztai.html "We had two kinds of potatoes _ one GM and the other non_GM. I had expected that the GM potato, with 20 micrograms of a component against the several grams of other components, should not cause any problems. But we found problems. Our studies clearly show that the effects were not due to that little gene expression, but it depended on the way the gene had been inserted into the potato genome and what it did to the potato genome."