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In reply to the discussion: GMO's are they safe? There is no way to be sure yet...there are no absolutes in young science... [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)57. Mechanism. Your example still needs one.
Your example is someone complaining about funding and seeking more funding with a vague claim about potential danger. But he lacks one key element: A mechanism. Instead, he excuses his lack of mechanism with a claim that danger might only appear generations later.....and still doesn't list a mechanism why it does that but does not show any danger today.
As for this:
He says that biologists who point out health or other risks associated with GM cropswho merely report or defend experimental findings that imply there may be risksfind themselves the focus of vicious attacks on their credibility, which leads scientists who see problems with GM foods to keep quiet.
Someone who proves a mechanism for GMO danger is on a short list for a Nobel prize. They'll be taught in every high school biology class for the rest of time. And they'll have funding for anything they ever want to do.
But they have to have a mechanism first, so that they have something to test.
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GMO's are they safe? There is no way to be sure yet...there are no absolutes in young science... [View all]
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
OP
And your suspecting comes from assuming (virtually) every combination has been tried
jeff47
Aug 2014
#62
How many times do you like explaining to people that women should be paid the same as men?
jeff47
Aug 2014
#6
No, I'm not. The GMO producers are. They're clearly terrified of the results independent
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#71
Just because the funding is independent doesn't mean the research wasn't restricted
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#74
And in Europe they have decided, based on the evidence that you reject, to strictly regulate GMO's.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#84
Oh right. Because all those European scientists are suffering from irrational fear.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#87
no but to be fair im willing to take a look...only thing that bothers me is the whois lookup
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
#14
Which is why you read the journal articles instead of trusting the web site. (nt)
jeff47
Aug 2014
#15
You think that a transglobal corporate monster like Monsanto should be allowed
Peace Patriot
Aug 2014
#56
I am not talking about the biological cross breeding through biological invito or standard
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
#66
How about this ~ stop rendering food producing areas infertile, and improve the waste factor?
Zorra
Aug 2014
#91
I agree completely I just hope we proceed with caution and transparency as you say...
Drew Richards
Aug 2014
#78