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> Let's adopt GMOs! It's from the guys that brought us Thalidomide! That it a somewhat cheap shot. Yes, science makes mistakes. But I don't think switching ove
by sampo 13y ago
> Let's adopt GMOs! It's from the guys that brought us Thalidomide!
That it a somewhat cheap shot. Yes, science makes mistakes. But I don't think switching over to the anti-vaccine, homeopathy-supporting type of crowd results in less mistakes.
- api 13y agoI agree with the last point. Even if GMO foods are overhyped and not all they're cracked up to be, many of their opponents are fanatics not worth listening to either.
- coldtea 13y agoSurely not. I like science. What I don't like is hastily done applied technology that pretends to be science, but instead of knowledge it caters to money interests and the need for a quick buck. And the people that go "Oh, science was used in the process of creating this, we must defend it" (hint: science was also used in creating cigarettes and high fructose corn syrup). Science is about learning. Those kind of endeavours, like Monstanto, is about locking-down and selling -- and let the future generations sort any bad outcomes out. They can (and do) sidestep scientific rigor, objections, methodological issues, and the need for long term impact studies (and of course, all the ethical and societal issus arising from a company patending seeds themselves) to the maximum extend that regulatory bodies allow them.