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Ohioguy wrote:

Laboratory studies have shown teratogenic effects of roundup in
animals[13] [14]. These reports have proposed that the teratogenics are
caused by impaired retinoicacid signaling[15]. A 2011 report by Earth
Open Source asserts that the roundup active ingredient - glyphosate -
has caused birth defects in laboratory animal tests[16].

I would question the initial assumptions of any study done by a group
called "Earth Open Source". Most likely, they simply decided that they
wanted to see certain results, then did what they could in the study to
try to make them happen.

You say you have a degree in Environmental Studies, but you question a
groups findings because of their name? Were you taught the scientific
method? It has very little to do with names.

Then when confronted with "Health Effects" of Roundup, or it's
"Ecological Effects", or its sale using "false advertising and
scientific fraud", you duck the questions.

Then you pose a question,"
Yep, applying various chemicals directly to a human embryo will do
that. Peanut butter and jelly probably will, too. However, in real
life they are a bit less likely to come into direct contact with a human
embryo, don't you think?
Then using your vast knowledge of Environmental Studies, you don't
respond to the answer.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338670
Reprod Toxicol. 2011 May;31(4):528-33. Epub 2011 Feb 18.
Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically
modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.
Aris A, Leblanc S.

Source

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Sherbrooke
Hospital Centre, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; Clinical Research Centre of
Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada;
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke,
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

Abstract

Pesticides associated to genetically modified foods (PAGMF), are
engineered to tolerate herbicides such as glyphosate (GLYP) and
gluphosinate (GLUF) or insecticides such as the bacterial toxin bacillus
thuringiensis (Bt). The aim of this study was to evaluate the
correlation between maternal and fetal exposure, and to determine
exposure levels of GLYP and its metabolite aminomethyl phosphoric acid
(AMPA), GLUF and its metabolite 3-methylphosphinicopropionic acid
(3-MPPA) and Cry1Ab protein (a Bt toxin) in Eastern Townships of Quebec,
Canada. Blood of thirty pregnant women (PW) and thirty-nine nonpregnant
women (NPW) were studied. Serum GLYP and GLUF were detected in NPW and
not detected in PW. Serum 3-MPPA and CryAb1 toxin were detected in PW,
their fetuses and NPW. This is the first study to reveal the presence of
circulating PAGMF in women with and without pregnancy, paving the way
for a new field in reproductive toxicology including nutrition and
utero-placental toxicities.
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What's the matter? Don't you like the National Institute of Health's
name either?

Not to worry, you should fit right in with Shelly, and Derald the Dim.

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