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Skeptics Ask Monsanto

Skeptics Ask Monsanto

At Boston Skeptics "Skeptics in the Pub" on June 22, 2015, skeptics' questions for a Monsanto scientist provided a productive discussion. Larry Gilbertson of Monsanto answered.

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  1. Skeptics Ask Monsanto MARY MANGAN, PHD @MEM_SOMERVILLE Delivered at the

    Boston Skeptics Skeptics in the Pub (SiTP) June 22, 2015
  2. Skeptics ask Questions  Posted on discussion forums:  Reddit:

    http://redd.it/37lorb  SGU: http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,44431.0.html  Boston Skeptics Facebook, Meetup, etc
  3. Biodiversity  Is all the corn out there one kind

    of corn? What’s different?  Risk of susceptibility to a single pathogen? What do you do about that?
  4. Patents and Legal Issues  Patents  ELI5: “explain like

    I’m 5 years old”  Patents on life; seed saving, open source seeds or other off-patented stuff
  5. Nucleic Acid Patent Holders, US Number granted, total, US gene

    patents. Top 25 holders. via doi: 10.1038/nbt.2568 DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred GlaxoSmithKline Roche Incyte Pfizer Univ of California Isis Pharmaceuticals Merck Novarits US Dept Health & Human Services Takeda Pharmaceuticals Monsanto Bristol-Myers Squibb Sanofi-Aventis Amgen Human Genome Sciences Bayer BASF Univ of Washington Life Technologies Institut Pasteur Number of plant gene patents via doi: 10.1038/nbt.2568 DuPont/Pioneer Monsanto BASF Univ of CA Bayer Univ of WA Novartis Pfizer Sanofi-Aventis Johns Hopkins US DHHS Univ CA US HHS
  6. Technology Agreement  Tech agreement, seed saving  Farmer shared

    his tech agreement:  thefarmerslife.com/biotechnology/i-occupy-our-food-supply-everyday  Suing farmers, affecting neighbors, co-existence, off-patent seeds
  7. Academic Research License  Academic research agreements  Is this

    posted somewhere?  Stories in 2009 like this SciAM one
  8. New crops, new technologies  Other types of tech 

    Consumer traits  Allergen removal