{"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":"<p> 
<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1324">http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1324</a> That is the wickedly clever title of a <a href=\"http:\/\/kfolta.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/organic-food-causes-autism.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinfolta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Folta<\/a>,\u00a0a plant geneticist at the University of Florida, in Gainsville. To make his point, Folta, as he <a href=\"http:\/\/witter.com\/kevinfolta\/status\/298511624405385217\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> on twitter, uses logic &#8220;borrowed from the anti-GMO crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/specialisation/"></a> That would be logic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletechnology.org\/current-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/facweek/">Tramadol Online Purchase</a> Is it a coincidence that autism has risen since GMOs have been introduced in the US diet?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/peru/">https://rgprincipal.com/peru/</a> That&#8217;s from Jeffrey Smith, a purveyor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/geneticroulettemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">worst kind of fallacious, anti-GMO fearmongering<\/a>.<!--more-->\u00a0His views are so fringe that he wouldn&#8217;t be worth mentioning, but alas, he&#8217;s been legitimized by popular media personalities, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletechnology.org\/posts\/jeffrey-smith-on-democracy-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Goodman<\/a> and and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/tomorrowstable\/2010\/12\/07\/dr-oz-prescribes-non-gmo-diets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Oz<\/a>.\u00a0(Incidentally,\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0has recently published a must-read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/02\/04\/130204fa_fact_specter\" target=\"_blank\">profile<\/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<p> 
<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/our-place/"></a> Never mind, as Folta says in his <a href=\"http:\/\/kfolta.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/organic-food-causes-autism.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, that &#8220;there is no legitimate causal relationship between biotechnology and human disease or disorders.&#8221; I know, I know:\u00a0<em>Who cares?\u00a0<\/em><em>To be on the safe side, let&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderweekly.com\/article-7968-the-fight-to-label-frankenfoods.html\" target=\"_blank\">label those frankenfoods<\/a>. Enough already. Even\u00a0Grist, that open-minded, pro-science bastion of environmental news, <a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/news\/campaign-to-label-frankenfoods-goes-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\">asks<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/humidifiers/">https://castlehomecomfort.com/humidifiers/</a> Want to be able to tell the difference between a natural fish and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/news\/the-apocalypse-is-here-fda-clears-way-for-fast-growing-gm-monster-salmon\/\">genetically engineered frankensalmon<\/a>\u00a0in the dystopian food future?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/1185-2/"></a> Well, now that you put it that way&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=frankensalmon&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=wz3SRY8QUvTNnM&amp;tbnid=ZvDvpVcXpvR5tM:&amp;ved=&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Frtaysom.blogspot.com%2F&amp;ei=KckQUcqJO_KN0QH_yoHQDw&amp;bvm=bv.41867550,d.dmQ&amp;psig=AFQjCNFCWAPoxD67Ud3LlRhlDOM83J2Pig&amp;ust=1360140970361129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ETmTtsEdIsM\/UQgZ5M0eosI\/AAAAAAAAAr8\/0pEv9spBkE8\/s1600\/franksalmon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/tech/">Buy Online Soma</a> That is the wickedly clever title of a post by Kevin Folta,\u00a0a plant geneticist at the University of Florida, in Gainsville. To make his point, Folta, as he says on twitter, uses logic &#8220;borrowed from the anti-GMO crowd.&#8221; That would be logic like this: Is it a coincidence that autism has risen since GMOs have&#8230;<span> <a href="https://andiroberts.com/emotional-intelligence/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10340\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496,2724,2736,2967],"tags":[743,1072,1126,1141],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-gmos","category-grist","category-select","tag-biotechnology","tag-frankenfoods","tag-gmos","tag-grist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}