The article “A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops” had a lot information on the debate about the use of genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.s.  The article talked mostly about the different views of many regarding the safety of using G.M.O.s.  Many feel using G.M.O.s will cause harm to us and the environment, while others argued they would cause no harm and that consuming foods with G.M.O.s was no more dangerous than consuming foods without them.  At first, I thought it was obvious that modifying foods was dangerous and would cause us harm.  Then as I was reading the article and reading about the different views of people I began to question if this was really true.  The sections in the article “Sifting Through the Claims” and “Silencing the Scientists” are the parts that had me questioning the credibility of any claims about G.M.O.s, good or bad.  In the the “Sifting through the claims” section they talk about the rats that were used in testing were rats that would get tumors anyway and that the sample size was too small.  It also talks about the hamsters that lost the ability to reproduce after being on a genetically modified soybean diet and how it was later contradicted.  In “Silencing the Scientists” the issue of the university researchers acting as a “mouthpiece for the G.M.O biotech industry” was brought up because of a $600,000 donation from Monsanto to the university for student scholarships.  This made me think, “What claims should you believe and what should you not believe?”  After reading this article, I think that the use of G.M.O.s could potentially be harmful and until scientists know 100% that using them will not harm humans or the environment, they should not be used.