{"id":10876,"date":"2013-03-21T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10876"},"modified":"2013-03-21T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:19:35","slug":"guardian-takes-down-pseudo-journalism-video-on-gmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10876","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Takes Down Pseudo-Journalism Video on GMOs"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://raceflowdevelopment.com/tech/ I used to think, as I wrote<\/a> in Slate<\/em> last year, that nothing rivaled the amount of misinformation that has so badly muddied climate science:<\/p>\n

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Ambien 10 Mg Price Then I started paying attention to how anti-GMO campaigners have distorted the science on genetically modified foods. You might be surprised at how successful they’ve been and who has helped them pull it off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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http://masterfacilitator.com/eqicertifiedtrainers/ I\u2019ve found that fears https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/ \u00a0<\/strong>are stoked by prominent\u00a0environmental groups<\/a>, supposed\u00a0food-safety watchdogs<\/a>, and influential\u00a0food columnists<\/a>; that dodgy science is laundered by\u00a0well-respected scholars<\/a>\u00a0and propaganda is treated credulously by\u00a0legendary journalists<\/a>; and that progressive media outlets, which often decry the scurrilous rhetoric that warps the climate debate, serve up a comparable agitprop when it comes to GMOs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://andiroberts.com/resourcehub/ This state of affairs has anguished<\/a> science-minded progressives. It puts them in the position of calling out their natural allies, which as Mark Lynas has discovered<\/a>, is not such great fun. In the zero sum political world we live in, you don’t get pats on the back for questioning your own assumptions and those of your tribe; you get stabbed in the back for going off the reservation.<\/p>\n

Buy Alprazolam No Prescription As for myself, I continue to be shocked at how progressive media covers biotechnology. A recent example was \u00a0an awful\u00a0piece of anti-GMO propaganda\u00a0dressed up as journalism<\/a> and posted on the Guardian<\/em> site–initially without any attribution. The first person to bring it my attention was Robert Wilson<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter. Lynas also mentioned<\/a> it. Soon after, I wrote<\/a> about it in this space, noting:<\/p>\n

The piece is as slanted and error-ridden as they come, made all the more obvious for its reliance on a\u00a0notoriously\u00a0<\/a>discredited study<\/a>\u00a0by a French researcher with a\u00a0weird history<\/a>\u00a0who has long been an anti-GMO opponent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/ Charlie Petit at MIT’s Tracker<\/em> site took notice<\/a> of my post, saying my ire “had merit.” And now, belatedly, the Guardian would appear to agree, since they have taken down the video, according<\/a> to one of the editors.<\/p>\n

Purchase Xanax Online And so today, there is one less piece of blatant misinformation polluting<\/a> the science communication environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buy Xanax Without Rx I used to think, as I wrote in Slate last year, that nothing rivaled the amount of misinformation that has so badly muddied climate science: Then I started paying attention to how anti-GMO campaigners have distorted the science on genetically modified foods. You might be surprised at how successful they’ve been and who has helped… Continue Reading…<\/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":[2496,2724,2790,2967],"tags":[743,1126,1250],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-gmos","category-journalism","category-select","tag-biotechnology","tag-gmos","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","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=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}