Cyberspace has been awash
with claims over the past two weeks that glyphosate, an herbicide used with
some genetically modified crops, causes autism. “Half of All Children Will Be
Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT,” blared a
headlined article on a natural products website that was shared by more than
100,000 people. Other sites had similarly headlined articles.
Similar near hysterical claims appear like clockwork
every few months on the Internet, promoted by natural products and supplement
sites working in concert with anti-GMO activists. The alleged link between
autism and GM foods is heavily promoted by notorious alternative medicine and
natural products advocates, such as Dr. Joseph Mercola, as well as by Jeffrey Smith, the controversial founder of the
anti-GMO one-man Institute for Responsible Technology. Mercola even promotes a
Smith video headlined: “Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide May Be Most Important
Factor in Development of Autism and Other Chronic Disease”.
Is there any truth to the claims of a
GMO-glyphosate-autism link?.....To Read More….
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