How bad is it for science when the results are not published?
Their [private companies] studies are pursued by the government. The government gets the data and they summarise the data. But the actual data is never published. But if that is all [that happens] then it will not be good [for science]. But there are major studies done by American universities. They are independent of the companies and they are published. But individuals cannot repeat the trial and verify the data. How bad is that for science? Yes, you can’t buy a bag of [GM] seeds and then study and do experiments. It is not that they have not been studied. They have been studied by people who have special arrangements to study them. And any person who wants to study them may not be able to because of piracy issues. There is a controversy. The question is whether any person should be allowed [to verify the data] or not. I don’t have a position on that. What firewalls has Science put in place to identify ‘image manipulation’ by scientists submitting their research work on stem cells? H
