Indian academies’ GM crop report slammed
Posted for Priya Shetty India’s reputation as an emerging world power has already taken a hefty beating with the seemingly doomed Commonwealth Games. Now its scientific reputation is under threat too. This week, a much-anticipated report on GM crops released by India’s top six science academies, which advocated the introduction of GM brinjal (aubergine), turns out to contain several lines plagiarised from two reports by GM advocate Anand Kumar, at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology in Delhi, India. Yesterday, Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh rejected the report, saying it “lacked scientific rigour”. Earlier this year, Ramesh had put … Read more
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