La resistencia a las razones de Pusztai. El conocimiento y la incertidumbre en la polémica sobre los organismos modificados genéticamente

Abstract

This work addresses a very polemic and significant episode that has taken place in the scientific and technological sphere belonging to the contemporary occidental societies. The paper shows that scientific and technical positions very different and even clearly opposed and contradictory are coexisting in the general debate over the potential negative human and environmental consequences of the free global propagation of the transgenic foods. Principally taking into account the essential tension between a more traditional and conservative perspective in front of a more innovative and revolutionary point of view, this article analyses how a recognized and prestigious expert on this knowledge field very quickly turned into a professional dispossessed of his job and in an investigator especially discredited and unauthorized.