new conspiracy theory linking GMOs with supposed campaign to 'eliminate Africans'

According to NaturalNews, the website of the self-described “Health Ranger” Mike Adams, RNAi is already being used for "population control" as part of a "concerted, organized and longstanding effort to eliminate African Americans from the gene pool and Africans in general."

In reality, RNAi is being used to protect plants against diseases and more recently, to combat pest infestations as a substitute for insecticides. RNAi stands for RNA interference, a biological process whereby gene expression is inhibited by the targeting of messenger RNA molecules, whose normal function is to translate the coding sequences of DNA into proteins.

Adams is at the crazy end even of the increasingly wacky anti-GMO scene. His obsessions vary from the fluoridation of water to the supposedly harmful effects of childhood vaccines to the promotion of raw (unpasteurized) milk. Adams is also an HIV/AIDS denialist, and has claimed the Ebola outbreak in west Africa "was not an accident."

Although obsessed with pollution and rabidly pro-organic, Adams is hardly a liberal environmentalist, promoting conspiracy theories against Hilary Clinton and circulating other alt-right memes. A recent post railed against what he termed "left-wing truthism" and its supposed "hatred toward Christians, whites and President Trump."

...https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/anti-gmo-website-promotes-new-conspiracy-theory-linking-gmos-supposed-campaign-eliminate