How Genetically-Modified Crops Can Save Hundreds Of Thousands From Malnutrition

[Lucille]

Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin, Says Black Swan Author Nassim Taleb
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...obal-Ruin-Says-Black-Swan-Author-Nassim-Taleb

Finance people were risk-blind, but were a 1000 times more sophisticated than GMO-biologists (at least finance people can understand an insult). I noticed that the GMO promoters make elementary risk mistakes of showing the "benefits" of GMO (which I don't contest) as if it meant anything about the "risk" of GMOs. This is the standard Russian Roulette fallacy by which someone tells you the probability of getting the bullet is lower *because* the money you win is now larger.

So far all arguments are fraught with these fallacies: 1) The "evidentiary fallacy" (or Turkey problem, mistaking evidence of absence for absence of evidence), 2) The potato fallacy, 3) The technological salvation fallacy (risk-blind), aside from other similar elementary mistakes.

 

[Ender]

Wow - so much wrong in so few words. Never ceases to amaze me. There are literally over a thousand independent studies proving that GMO crops are safe and more efficient than traditional crops. And on fact, there are NONE that say otherwise.

Conflicts of interest do not invalidate a study. Being unable to duplicate the results invalidates studies.

Nobody ever said that GMO crops will save the world. It's just a weapon in the arsenal.

INDEPENDENT studies? Uh.... NO.

Cronie-fattening-the-pocketbook-studies? Yes.

 

[donnay]

Er, I was just commenting on the peer review part he was referring to. Other than that, nothing that I can think of.

The two do tie together. The officials will use climate change, er global warming, er ice age to promote their genetically modified frankenseeds. They will pitch them to farmers as drought resistant (which they already have) and quick growing and cold resistant. The problem is, the economy isn't doing so hot and the farmers are realizing that the GMO's are too costly to grow. But of course government will jump in and help bail everybody out! The Biotechs are losing money hand over fist too.


Demand Grows For Non-GMO Seed
http://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=27851

 

[donnay]

INDEPENDENT studies? Uh.... NO.

Cronie-fattening-the-pocketbook-studies? Yes.

Ender, she doesn't get that. I have tried over and over to point out all the conflict of interests--it just falls on blind eyes. *SIGH*

 

[donnay]

Another flashback:

The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html

 

[libertygrl]

There are absolutely no peer-reviewed studies proving that GM crops are hazardous to human health despite more than two decades of studies.

If there's nothing to worry about, then why are these companies so afraid to label their products to let us know?