{"id":11211,"date":"2013-05-17T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:29:36","slug":"dont-let-mark-bittman-cook-your-brain-with-bad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11211","title":{"rendered":"Don't Let Mark Bittman Cook Your Brain with Bad Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy Clonazepam Online Overnight Mark Bittman, the popular food writer for the New York Times<\/em>, has written a column<\/a> that is almost beyond parody for its unintentional irony. The only way to fully appreciate his lack of self-awareness is to stop and marvel at numerous passages. Let’s start at the top:<\/p>\n

Things are bad enough in the food world that we don\u2019t need to resort to hyperbole to be worried or even alarmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eszopiclone Lunesta Buy Online This is some chutzpah. Here’s Bittman from<\/a> September 15, 2012:<\/p>\n

It’s not an exaggeration to say that almost everyone wants to see the labeling of genetically engineered materials contained in their food products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://andiroberts.com/bio/ Almost everyone? Same column<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://forgive123.com/emotional-healing/ G.M.O.\u2019s, to date, have neither become a panacea \u2014 far from it \u2014 nor created Frankenfoods, though by most estimates\u00a0the evidence is far more damning<\/a>\u00a0than it is supportive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is completely untrue. If Bittman had wanted to be factual he would have referred NYT readers to credible sources on the state of the science on biotech crops and foods, such as\u00a0here<\/a> or here.<\/a> Instead, he links to a website called the Organic Authority and a\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0that explains why<\/p>\n

GMOs are bad for your body, bad for the community, bad for farmers and bad for the environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is what is known as laundering untruths.\u00a0<\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/ A bit further down in his current column<\/a> chock full of unintentional ironies, Bittman muses,”to whom should we be listening? Who speaks with authority?” Please. Bittman knows well that his perch at the NYT is influential and that foodies revere<\/a>\u00a0and trust\u00a0him. Still, he pushes the theme and says that on whom we should be listening to,<\/p>\n

https://www.secpeinvestments.com/contact/ When it comes to big issues, the answer is \u201cactual experts,\u201d and it\u2019s almost always \u201cnot ourselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amazingly, he goes on to discuss Dan Kahneman’s widely acclaimed 2011 book<\/a>, “Thinking Fast and Slow,” which is about how our decisions and behavior are influenced by “cognitive biases.” Yet Bittman gives no indication that he is aware of how utterly biased he is on the issue of genetically modified foods, and how this leads him to scaremonger and communicate false information.<\/p>\n

This next passage, which betrays his convoluted thinking, is classic:<\/p>\n

Buy Valium Online Without Prescription In matters where you\u2019ve become a true expert, you should trust your intuition. Otherwise, it pays to literally stop and think. When I read a news story like\u00a0this one<\/a>, which claims that G.M.O.s are linked to leukemia, I might be scared out of my wits \u2014 Americans can\u2019t avoid genetically modified food without a huge effort, and even then there are no guarantees. So are we doomed to years of chemo? Perhaps not: If I sit down and do my homework all I can really say with intelligence is that it\u2019s premature to conclude that ingesting food with genetically engineered ingredients is safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://www.andrewplimmer.com/ghost-commerce/ I happen to have an expert bullshit detector, so my intuition tells me that Bittman here is either being idiotic or utterly disingenuous. Because if he was intelligent and\/or did his homework, he would know that he’s as likely to develop leukemia from GMOs as he is from overhead power lines<\/a>. Secondly, that’s not a news story he cites, but a blog post\u00a0written<\/a> by the “founder” of a “natural medicine database.” If you can find an actual news story written \u00a0about this latest dubious study on GMOs in a pay-to-play journal, let me know. That Bittman is laundering such a slanted piece<\/a> of propaganda (that also cites a widely discredited study<\/a>) under the false banner of news should tell you everything you need to know about his expert sources.<\/p>\n

Finally, it’s worth pointing out again that Bittman started off his column by saying, “we don\u2019t need to resort to hyperbole to be worried or even alarmed.”<\/p>\n

It’s a shame he doesn’t take his own advice, for near the end, he writes (my emphasis):<\/p>\n

Order Ambien Online As I wrote<\/a>\u00a0a few weeks ago, barely a day goes by that someone doesn\u2019t say to me, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing I can safely eat.\u201d Buy Zopiclone 7.5 Mg Online Many of us are afraid of our food and of the way it\u2019s produced, and to some extent that fear is well founded.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To a great extent, Bittman is irresponsibly spreading that fear (which is not well founded), particularly with respect to genetically modified foods. He also is, as one media biotech watchdog recently\u00a0put it<\/a>, “a scourge on science.”<\/p>\n

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