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> the scientific consensus Uhh. You mean the lack of consensus. Which is bought and paid for by Monsanto. When it comes to their own products, they outspend an
by lx3459683 8y ago
> the scientific consensus
Uhh. You mean the lack of consensus. Which is bought and paid for by Monsanto. When it comes to their own products, they outspend any independent studies by orders of magnitude in order to create enough noise for there to be a lack of consensus long enough to make a profit. It's straight out of the tobacco industry playbook.
- atomical 8y agoAll of the independent studies say that Roundup causes cancer? Unscientific assholes downvoted me.
- azinman2 8y agoI think parent meant the ones that say it’s safe.
- 0x4f3759df 8y agoNot sure if it causes cancer or not, but this is like a security hole in the scientific process (ie mostly only the company that produces X will fund studies of X). It's interesting to think security holes more generally - Nick Szabo got me thinking along these lines with his recent pinned tweet: "Giant companies are the security holes of capitalism. The more centralized industries get, the more they attract socialist political activists. The Bolshevik Revolution was a violent version of this vs. railroad stations, newspapers, etc. Now activism is focused on tech giants."
- kennywinker 8y agoThat’s one way to look at it. Big companies attract activists and so are a risk for capitalism. Another way would be that big companies do the most damage to the most people’s lives, and are a risk for humanity.