Tag: GMO
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Anti-GMO: The Lethal Implications
Anthropogenic-driven climate change is a fact. As the climate changes, the poorest of humanity will suffer the greatest. The most ardent climate activists tell us this is settled science. So settled that questioning these conclusions puts you in league with people who deny the Jewish Holocaust ever happened. It is science! Well, there is another…
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Confronting Liberal and Conservative Biases on Science
New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter has an excellent piece about how ideology shapes our embrace/rejection of science. The left loves to rant about the "anti-science" right when the left participates just as much in the same anti-science behavior, and the left's anti-science behavior is every bit as destructive. "The left is turning anti-science," Marc…
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Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe
Scientific American: Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe … In the paper, we identify several intuitions that may affect people's perception of GMOs.Psychological essentialism, for instance, makes us think of DNA as an organism's "essence" – an unobservable and immutable core that causes the organism's behaviour and development and determines…
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Pew: Major Gaps Between the Public, Scientists on Key Issues
From Pew Research: Major Gaps Between the Public, Scientists on Key Issues An enlightening interactive chart showing major discrepancies between what scientists believe and what the public believes, segmented by various demographics. It drives home that being pro or anti-science is highly selective across demographic groups. The divergence on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is particularly…
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Science and Technology Links
1. The Atlantic: What Americans Don't Know About Science On a recent survey, just 74 percent of Americans said that the Earth revolves around the sun. … … As you'll see, in the words of the report, "many Americans provide multiple incorrect answers to basic questions about scientific facts." Then again, "residents of other countries, including highly…
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Saturday Links
1. A College Kid, A Single Mom, And The Problem With The Poverty Line Rico Saccoccio is a junior at Fordham University in the Bronx. He's from a middle-class family in Connecticut and he spent the summer living at home with his parents, who cover about $15,000 a year in his college costs. … …There's…
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Environmentalist Mark Lynas Changes View on GMOs
Mark Lynas: Lecture to Oxford Farming Conference, 3 January 2013 I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby…