{"id":11620,"date":"2013-06-30T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11620"},"modified":"2013-06-30T09:16:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T13:16:50","slug":"whos-polarizing-the-gmo-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11620","title":{"rendered":"Who&#039;s Polarizing the GMO Debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/about-us/">Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online</a> I love this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/political-science\/2013\/jun\/28\/gm-food\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> in the <em>Guardian<\/em> about GMOs, I really do. It&#8217;s so exquisitely disingenuous that you have to admire the writer&#8217;s chutzpah. Let&#8217;s start with this line (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/schedule-time/">https://dinoeliadis.com/schedule-time/</a> Oh, did I mention this part of Stirling&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/spru\/people\/peoplelists\/person\/7513\" target=\"_blank\">bio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/bathtub-installation/"></a> Which leads me to this uproarious line in Stirling&#8217;s piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/contact-four/"></a> I love this piece in the Guardian about GMOs, I really do. It&#8217;s so exquisitely disingenuous that you have to admire the writer&#8217;s chutzpah. Let&#8217;s start with this line (my emphasis): Why is it that some politicians and prominent scientists and &#8220;communications&#8221; agencies are so exclusively preoccupied with GM [genetic modification]? I can&#8217;t imagine that&#8230;<span> <a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/team/">https://growthjourneytherapy.com/team/</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11620\">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":[2496,2709,2710,2724,2962,2967],"tags":[743,1091,1126,1138],"class_list":["post-11620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-genetic-engineering","category-genetically-modified-foods","category-gmos","category-science-communication","category-select","tag-biotechnology","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-gmos","tag-greenpeace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620","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=11620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}