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>This is like saying “100 years of data confirms coal provides lots of power cheaply!” Yeah, we know. That was never the issue and it’s a red herring from the r
by antris 9y ago
>This is like saying “100 years of data confirms coal provides lots of power cheaply!” Yeah, we know. That was never the issue and it’s a red herring from the real issues
Did you read the article? The yield of GMOs has been attacked by New York Times and organic food lobby. If that's a red herring, maybe you should be angry at the organic food advocates for this instead of research that proves this anti-GMO propaganda wrong.
It's kind of like trying to prove evolution to evolution-deniers. If you don't respond to their red herring arguments, they will go "gotcha, you can't prove us wrong!" and when you do, they just move on to another subject because "that's not an important issue".
- yorwba 9y agoThe "gotcha" people and the "not important, I already knew that" people are usually not the same. Thinking that there are only two sides to any issue is usually quite shortsighted. (Same for being angry at the NYT instead of TFA: you can be angry about both.)
- antris 9y agoOf course, but we need all of these people to be educated about this. More scientific information is not bad, even if you think it's not important to you.