THE REAL REASON THE STANFORD ORGANIC FOOD STUDY WAS A FRAUD by
Jon Rappoport September 12, 2012 www.nomorefakenews.com No
matched groups. That’s the short answer. It’s a basic
principle in scientific studies. Whether it’s vegetables or
humans, you create two matched groups that are as close to each
other as possible in all relevant ways, and then you expose
them to different protocols and record what happens. For
example, Washington State University did the right thing with
strawberries. John Reganold and his colleagues took the same
strain of berry and planted it in two plots of earth right next
to each other. One patch was conventionally grown (with
chemicals) and the other was raised organically. Same soil,
same weather, same strain of berry. The result? The organic
strawberries had higher nutritional content. In the recent
infamous Stanford study that is raising a ruckus, the
conclusion was: conventional and organic food are nutritionally
equal. But no planting of food was done. No study was done at
all, in fact. It was a review of prior published studies, and
there is no indication that those prior studies handled crops
the correct way, as the Washington State strawberry researchers
did. Therefore, it’s not science. It’s perhaps cogitation,
contemplation, comparison, but it’s not science.