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The anti-GMO crowd is simply the conservative reasoning crowd, not necessarily the unscientific one. Why? Well, nutrition science still advocates for low-fat, l
by nikolay 10y ago
The anti-GMO crowd is simply the conservative reasoning crowd, not necessarily the unscientific one. Why? Well, nutrition science still advocates for low-fat, low-sodium, low-cholesterol diets. Doctors still prescribe Lipitor; Tylenol is still OTC; prostate cancer is still "cured" with unnecessary invasive surgeries, mammograms although questioned as a self-fulfilling prophecy are still widely used, CAT scans with their huge amounts of radiation are still performed for benign symptoms, and so on. Just because there's a (poor!) study about something, it's not a good enough reason for people to change their reasoning - so the heuristic is that everything new is too risky for the slightly better yield. I might be pro-science and pro-technology, but when it comes to what I ingest and how I live, I'm more than conservative, and it's been working well for me. Most science is bad science, unfortunately. Until AI starts dominating science, I can't trust scientists 100%, sorry! Especially about super complex stuff like nutrition and metabolism! Our bodies are the most complex system in the visible universe, and I don't think we can predict the outcomes of each intervention. What we know for a fact is that we're best adapted to our tradition diets and foods!
- Oletros 10y agoWhat has to do nutrition science with GMO? > Most science is bad science, unfortunately. Until AI starts dominating science, I can't trust scientists 100%, sorry! Yes, let's distrust Gravity Laws, don't trust physicists > What we know for a fact is that we're best adapted to our tradition diets and foods! What are those tradition diets and foods?
- nikolay 10y agoBy "bad science" I meant bad health science and I apologize for not being clear. That also happens to be the department of science most obviously linked to commercial interest! A lot of studies have sponsored outcomes! "Traditional" varies from population to population and that's a subject for Epigenetics and the fact that it takes 4-6 generations to fully adapt to a new diet.
- dragonwriter 10y agoCoherent conservative reasoning would treat modern mutagenic breeding with at least as much suspicion as GMOs. So, no, conservative reasoning is not an adequate explanation of the anti-GMO crowd.
- nikolay 10y agoYou can cross-breed a tomato with a fish though as done in some GMOs - you can only do small incremental and closer to nature changes.