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Article: We just can't tell the risks of gm; The sinister sacking of the world's leading GM expert - and the trail that leads to Tony Blair and the White House.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 7, 2003
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Byline: ANDREW ROWELL
EARLY one fine summer morning, a taxi pulled up outside a terrace house in Aberdeen and took a 68-yearold scientist to a TV studio.
Shortly afterwards, Dr Arpad Pusztai found himself propelled from a life of welcome obscurity to the centre of a political maelstrom that would cost him his job, his reputation and his health.
His crime was to question the safety of genetically modified food. His 21/2-minute interview on ITV's World In Action revealed his research suggesting rats fed GM potatoes suffered stunted growth and damage to their immune system.
It triggered a controversy that put him on collision course with ...