Predicting the Future -- Seralini Rat Paper Redux
" I don't need a crystal ball; I have a crystal brain. " - -Adam Carolla Today the famous Lumpy Rat paper was published by Seralini and colleagues. I should say RE-published because it is basically the same content published in 2012, that was later retracted from the journal. Personally, I was glad to see him attempt to publish it again. The literature is where the conversation should happen, and if the work is of good quality it will be reproduced and expanded upon. If the work is of poor quality it will die a scientific dead end, cited only by the same authors in future papers with no additional progress. Kind of like the rest of the Seralini work. Unfortunately the general public doesn't follow the scientific conversation. People only pick the monologues they agree with, and a single flawed study from a biased lab carries as much weight (or more) than a thousand agreeing reports from 800 different groups. It was disappointing to see that S