Risk of Science| 52mins
Director: Gabriela Neuhaus, Angelo Scudeletti | Producer: Offroad Reprots GmbH
Focus Years: 2001 | Country: Switzerland
Synopsis:
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1998: While carrying out tests feeding genetically-modified potatoes to rats, Arpad Pusztai and Stanley Ewen observed unexpected changes in the animals. Pusztai gave some details of the observations in a television interview.Two days later he was dismissed and forbidden to speak about the matter.
In very short time, Britains most renowned scientific body, The Royal Society, came to the conclusion that Pustzai’s results were of no evidence. This was good news for the biotech companies. But scientists like the virologist Terje Traavik warn: "If you accept that there are theoretical risks connected to growing and consuming genetically modified plants, you have an ethical obligation to clarify whether these risks may cause any problems.“
The “Pusztai case†raised far reaching questions like: Is the freedom of science a myth? Are there any neutral experts? Who decides what directions research should follow? - Our film is an “indirect dialogue†between the different parties, between different ways of thinking...
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