{"id":10906,"date":"2013-03-31T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T06:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2013-03-31T01:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T06:50:42","slug":"why-are-greens-seduced-by-anti-biotech-charlatans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10906","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Greens Seduced by Anti-Biotech Charlatans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy Alprazolam No Prescription To understand just how mainstream anti-GMO sentiment is within environmentalism, check out this event<\/a> held several weeks ago at Audubon’s educational\u00a0center<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Greenwich, Connecticut. The promo:<\/p>\n

https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/smile-gallery/ Two films and speakers about genetically engineered\u00a0seeds; the history & future of farming;\u00a0and why leading scientists think GMOs threaten human health and sustainabile food production systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I really wanted to attend this, so I could learn who those leadings scientists were. But I had tickets to a Rangers game that night. Also, I’m not sure I would have had the stomach to sit through a double feature on GMO paranoia and misinformation, especially with one of the movies being Jeffrey Smith’s Genetic Roulette. It’s pretty amazing that someone as disreputable as Smith<\/a> has been legitimized by popular talk show hosts<\/a>\u00a0and celebrity environmentalists like David Suzuki and Jane Goodall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/planning/ Goodall, as you probably have heard, is under fire<\/a> for apparently plagiarizing portions of her new book, Seeds of Hope<\/em> (which has now been postponed). For science-based fans of Goodall, the news gets worse. Michael Moynihan points out<\/a> in the Daily Beast<\/em>:<\/p>\n

One of the more troubling aspects of\u00a0Seeds of Hope<\/em>\u00a0is Goodall\u2019s embrace of dubious science on genetically modified organisms (GMO). On the website of the Jane Goodall Foundation, readers are told\u2014correctly\u2014that \u201cthere\u00a0is<\/em>scientific consensus\u201d that climate change is being driven by human activity. But Goodall has little time for scientific consensus on the issue of GMO crops, dedicating the book to those who \u201cdare speak out\u201d against scientific consensus. Indeed, her chapter on the subject is riddled with unsupportable claims backed by dubious studies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Many of the claims in\u00a0Seeds of Hope<\/em>\u00a0can also be found in\u00a0Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods<\/em>, a book by \u201cconsumer advocate\u201d Jeffrey Smith. Goodall generously\u00a0blurbed the book<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cIf you care about your health and that of your children, buy this book, become aware of the potential problems, and take action\u201d) and in\u00a0Seeds of Hope<\/em>\u00a0cites a \u201cstudy\u201d on GMO conducted by Smith\u2019s \u201cthink tank,\u201d the Institute for Responsible Technology.<\/p>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/belbinteamroles360/ Like Goodall, Smith isn\u2019t a genetic scientist.\u00a0According to\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>writer Michael Specter<\/a>, he \u201chas no experience in genetics or agriculture, and has no scientific degree from any institution\u201d but did study \u201cbusiness at the Maharishi International University, founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

With that background and his blatant GMO nuttiness, Smith is easy to ridicule. But what does it say about people like Goodall who endorse such a charlatan? What does it say about a highly regarded environmental educational center that\u00a0promotes<\/a> Smith as a credible source on genetically modified foods?<\/p>\n

Mark Hoofnagle is unsparing<\/a> in what he thinks it says:<\/p>\n

It makes environmentalists look like idiots, as it distracts from\u00a0actual<\/em>\u00a0threats to the environment with invented threats and irrational fears of biotech…I\u2019m irritated with the anti-GMO movement because it\u2019s an embarrassment. It\u2019s Luddism, and ignorance masquerading as environmentalism. It\u2019s bad biology. It\u2019s the progressive equivalent of creationism or global warming denial. It\u2019s classic anti-science, and we shouldn\u2019t tolerate it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Order Hydrocodone Online Ah, but most greens and foodies not only tolerate anti-GMO craziness, they wink at it. Why is that?<\/p>\n

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Ambien Buy Without Prescription To understand just how mainstream anti-GMO sentiment is within environmentalism, check out this event held several weeks ago at Audubon’s educational\u00a0center\u00a0in\u00a0Greenwich, Connecticut. The promo: Two films and speakers about genetically engineered\u00a0seeds; the history & future of farming;\u00a0and why leading scientists think GMOs threaten human health and sustainabile food production systems. I really wanted to attend… 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":[2496,2659,2724],"tags":[743,1019,1126],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-environmentalism","category-gmos","tag-biotechnology","tag-environmentalism","tag-gmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906","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=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}