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The paper can be found here.
This has been previously discussed on /r/science before, and the general conclusion is that that paper is crap. They positively cite Andrew Wakefield (of vaccines=autism fame), positively cite Seralini (who has published horribly poorly done papers about GMO=cancer).
They ignore studies that explicitly disprove some of their claims (Glyphosphate inhibiting CYP Enzymes), and instead focus on earlier ones mentioning the possibility of a link. More info on this here
The primary author is a computer scientist at MIT, who has previously published articles claiming autism is linked to acetaminophen (also in this journal).
The journal it is published in also appears to be a vanity journal, where all you need to get published is to send them a check. For this particular issue, the Guest Editor, Dr. John Oller, has written an autism book and had Andrew Wakefield write the forward.
TL;DR: This is a bad study.
The 'Guest' Editor who approved the 'publication' of the article in the special edition of Entropy is...
Prof. Dr. John W. Oller, Jr.
Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
>Interests: biosemiotics; etiology of communication disorders; measurement of human abilities and severity of disabilities; intelligence theory; pragmatic information; pragmatic mapping theory; systems grammar
BUT WAIT - IT GETS BETTER
Dr. John Oller wrote a book about autism with a forward by Andrew J. Wakefield.
http://www.amazon.com/Autism-Diagnosis-Treatment-Etiology-Undeniable/dp/0763752800
So yes, the man who approved this papers publication (and of course oversaw the peer review process) is a supporter/associate of the fraudster Andrew Wakefield.