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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rather than be naive enough to imagine this GMO article would change many minds... [View all]
...if any at all, I'm just curious for those who won't agree with the article how quickly, and by what criteria, the article is dismissed at bullshit and propaganda:
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/core-truths-10-common-gmo-claims-debunked
Did you even need to click on the link, or was the title "core-truths-10-common-gmo-claims-debunked" all you really needed in order to know that nothing but BS could follow?
Corporate media, therefore can't be true?
Author must be an industry shill?
All those studies that don't show risks must be bought and paid for by Big Ag?
General belief that "natural = good, artificial = bad"?
Any tempering of those reactions, any shadings of "probably", "most likely", any moments of wondering "Well, maybe they have a point..." which turn quickly into "...but I'm not taking the risk!" (a position that assumes anti-GMO is the best, risk-free bet with no possible downside).
Any possibility you'd ever change your mind, or is there something so fundamentally scary to you about the idea of GMOs that the burden of proof that GMOs are safe is essentially insurmountable -- that is, have you decided that the odds of GMOs being safe is so very small that the chances that any study saying GMOs are safe is simply bad or corrupt science will always be more likely?