{"id":10340,"date":"2013-02-05T06:14:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2013-02-05T06:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:14:24","slug":"organic-food-causes-autism-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10340","title":{"rendered":"Organic Food Causes Autism and Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is it a coincidence that autism has risen since GMOs have been introduced in the US diet?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Alprazolam No Prescription That’s from Jeffrey Smith, a purveyor of the worst kind of fallacious, anti-GMO fearmongering<\/a>.\u00a0His views are so fringe that he wouldn’t be worth mentioning, but alas, he’s been legitimized by popular media personalities, such as Amy Goodman<\/a> and and Dr. Oz<\/a>.\u00a0(Incidentally,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0has recently published a must-read\u00a0profile<\/a>\u00a0of Oz by Michael Specter.) So the notion that GMO foods are somehow linked to everything from organ damage to autism has gotten wide play.<\/p>\n

Never mind, as Folta says in his post<\/a>, that “there is no legitimate causal relationship between biotechnology and human disease or disorders.” I know, I know:\u00a0Who cares?\u00a0<\/em>To be on the safe side, let’s just label those frankenfoods<\/a>. Enough already. Even\u00a0Grist, that open-minded, pro-science bastion of environmental news, asks<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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