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Republished paper draws fire

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Many scientists have denounced the republication of a retracted study by Gilles-Eric Séralini and colleagues that linked genetically modified (GM) maize (corn) to tumours in rats. Kevin Folta, a horticultural scientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville tweeted “Holy lumpy rats! Republished Seralini #GMO paper had no scientific peer review before published in the new journal.” In reply, Mary Mangan, an independent bioinformatics researcher based in Boston, Massachusetts, tweeted “So it was more like exhumed than republished”.

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