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In reply to the discussion: You can't criticize one pseudoscience when supporting another. [View all]Lancero
(3,003 posts)105. Wait till they hear we also have GMV's - Genetically Modified Viruses
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I have no issue to call out faulty logic. But a choice to eat Non-GMO food....
LynneSin
Feb 2015
#56
Nonsense. Unlike your 'Popular Science' article, this links to a peer reviewed survey...
immoderate
Feb 2015
#21
Can you cite a long term (more than 90 days) study that demonstrates this harmlessness?
immoderate
Feb 2015
#26
there is overwhelming consensus among scientists and health professionals that GMOs are...
mike_c
Feb 2015
#34
Then you can point me to an independent, long-term study that demonstrates this safety?
immoderate
Feb 2015
#44
LOL! Talk about being obtuse. Which ONE of those says GMOs are safe? Pick the best example.
immoderate
Feb 2015
#66
So, you couldn't find a single study that fulfills my request? Goalpost condition: STABLE
immoderate
Feb 2015
#75
Creationists, science deniers, all of 'em show this kind of nonsense don't they?
alp227
Feb 2015
#130
Fuck.. way to try and ruin a thread if there weren't enough bullshite in the OP to begin with.
Cha
Feb 2015
#100
check out this post on DU and the link to an article on antibiotic resistance...
Sancho
Feb 2015
#190
You not understanding antibiotics and antibiotic resistance does not make for an informative post.
jeff47
Feb 2015
#193
At this point I've provided you scholarly references and quotations refuting your position.
Sancho
Feb 2015
#281
Can you point me to an independent, long-term study that demonstrates organic food is safe?
jeff47
Feb 2015
#57
How would they know? The GMO producers license the seeds and control who can use them in research.
pnwmom
Feb 2015
#136
+1. Amazing how some champions of "science" haven't mastered the basic logic it is founded on
GreatGazoo
Feb 2015
#31
Being able to drown your crops in roundup is as important as eradicating smallpox
Chathamization
Feb 2015
#95
NYT: "farmers sprayed so much Roundup that weeds quickly evolved to survive it"
Chathamization
Feb 2015
#214
Dismissing a peer review article in Nature with a blog post? That's only pro-science on opposite day
Chathamization
Feb 2015
#261
So you didn't bother even looking at your first link? And then you call someboday who did a "liar"?
Chathamization
Feb 2015
#264
Dishonesty? Your first link is a blog post criticizing a peer reviewed article from Nature. When I
Chathamization
Feb 2015
#270
Because they demand legistlation that will increase the costs of GMO foods through labeling.
dilby
Feb 2015
#14
Well that's democracy. There are special interests for just about everything
dissentient
Feb 2015
#15
How about requiring companies who don't use GMO's to put a label on their food no GMO?
dilby
Feb 2015
#36
Actually, given that the growth of population on a finite planet is unsustainable
truebluegreen
Feb 2015
#152
You are the one suggesting to compare a farmer's market tomato to a supermarket tomato
metalbot
Feb 2015
#160
And GMO apologists use the same tactics as climate deniers, tobacco lawyers, ... so?
immoderate
Feb 2015
#70
I am not convinced that genetically engineering crops for resisantce to organophosphate herbicides
cheapdate
Feb 2015
#28
I think you make a point...but my issue with GMO's is the disclosure, not the science.
Sancho
Feb 2015
#33
Why do you think only one type of seed development technology should be labeled?
HuckleB
Feb 2015
#208
With today's technology, just about everything should be trackable for any reason...
Sancho
Feb 2015
#256
Your responses on this thread have been all anti-GMO, so don't pretend otherwise.
HuckleB
Feb 2015
#257
My choice to not eat GMO foods will not in anyway jeopardize the health of others around me
LynneSin
Feb 2015
#54
It sucks what happened in your county but still doesn't justify why someone shouldn't vaccinate
LynneSin
Feb 2015
#94
I'd like see a list of those "hundreds of cases in the United States and Canada"
Orrex
Feb 2015
#112
That document won't open for me. Can you summarize any of these hundreds of cases?
Orrex
Feb 2015
#140
Percy Schmeiser purposefully infringed and Monsanto still did not "act as a bully...."
mike_c
Feb 2015
#84
A Chuck Lasker graphic? He's the one who calls Hawaiian farmers, moms, doctors...
countryjake
Feb 2015
#82
Just call me a ******* eco terrorist! I'm on Kauai and we are doing our best to hold monsanto and
Cha
Feb 2015
#123
Thank you for Waging the battle against the Toxic Conglomerate Roundup-Monsanto.. one and the
Cha
Feb 2015
#191
Avoiding GMO's is at worst, simply benign, while the consequences of avoiding vaccinations...
LanternWaste
Feb 2015
#111
SO what countries have outlawed vaccinations? Yeah false equivalency sucks and people call you on it
Rex
Feb 2015
#122
Anti-vaxx = anti-cigarettes. Anti-vaxxx = anti-nuclear power. Anti-vaxx = anti-pesticides.
pnwmom
Feb 2015
#137
What is nonsense is to imply that just because the opponents of vaccines are unjustified,
pnwmom
Feb 2015
#161
In an effort to support GMO's, you have been making what is called an "argument from fallacy."
pnwmom
Feb 2015
#167
Bill Nye the Science guy on GMO's - for a valanced and sesible perspective:
Douglas Carpenter
Feb 2015
#166
Since GMO foods are reducing pesticide use, land use, and dangerous herbicide use...
HuckleB
Feb 2015
#197
Yes, you most certainly can! Most people have blind spots, but that doesn't mean that they should not call out
tblue37
Feb 2015
#213
Whether or not they are, "Round-up ready" means that you eating Glysophate tainted food. Glysophate
bobalew
Feb 2015
#236