Anti-GMO movement are liars and a disgrace to progressive activism
Never in the history of progressive movements have so few lied to so many. That pretty much sums up the anti-gmo movement. It is the most dishonest, wretched and immoral movement to ever come out of...
View ArticleFrom the archives: Why your kids are fat and sickly
The Nonsense Crowd has blamed GMOs for all modern illnesses and allergies despite any evidence to the contrary. Back in 2009 I wrote this when I was writing for the NY Examiner. This was before GMO...
View ArticleThe anti-GMO movement is anti-science/progress. They said so.
One of the issues rolling around regarding the anti-gmo movement is whether they are anti-science. The issue has been bandied about on various blogs and columns and in the Twittersphere. After all,...
View ArticleAnti-GMO movement: “There’s a sucker born every minute”
That famous quote is widely credited to P.T.Barnum. However, some sources claim that the quote originated with a guy named David Hannum. The story goes that Hannum was exhibiting something called the...
View ArticleJeffrey Smith to broadcast live anti-GMO freakshow on the internet.
Mark you calendars now. The Yogic flying dancer teacher and self styled gmo expert brings his sideshow act to the internet. October 25-27 . All your favorite anti-gmo cartoon characters will be...
View ArticleScientifically Illiterate Hall of Shame
Trying to convince the anti-gmo crowd the method of genetically engineering food is safe, or as safe as anything can be, is a daunting task. In fact, it’s like to trying to explain something to...
View ArticleYet another reason why the anti-GMO movement is nuts.
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View ArticleKickstarter campaign to build anti-GMO Scaredy Cat Town
The anti-gmo/organic crowd seems to be a bunch of ‘fraidy cats. Corporations, gmos, pesticides, most of the modern world get them squealing like stuck pigs. Everything’s giving us cancer and all kinds...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving story of secret generosity
Thanksgiving is upon and I have been remiss in posting. So, I decided to drag out this 2010 column from the archives. It’s from a previous incarnation. I figured since most of my posts are negative and...
View ArticleFood Democracy and Earth Open Source: Anti-GMO punks
Last week I followed a little exchange on the Twitter between Biofortified’s Anastasia Bodnar and some punk from the anti-gmo activist group Food Democracy who Bodnar identified as Dave Murphy, the...
View ArticleConnecticut becomes the first scientifically illiterate state
The State of Connecticut has become the first state in the nation to be inducted into the Progressive Contrarian’s Scientifically Illiterate Hall of Shame. The scientifically illiterate Connecticut...
View ArticleAllow Golden Rice: A video appeal by environmentalist Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore is one of the early members of Greenpeace. He left in the 1980s after he felt the organization had lost its way. In the last few years, he has come out in favor of GMOs and changed his …...
View ArticleAmy Harmon: When good journalists cross the anti-GMO cult
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the New York Times, Amy Harmon hit another one out of the park recently and earned even more wrath from the anti-gmo cult when she wrote about one man’s lonely...
View ArticleHeads up anti-GMO: More blind people might see. Nip it in the bud
Heads up antis. A clinical trial has shown promising results for treatment of a rare sight disorder. According to the Guardian, an Oxford University clinical trial used gene therapy to help people with...
View Article1585: Villagers terrified by demonic apple. 2014: They still are
This came across my Twitter transom recently. I think it’s apt for the antis who are frightened by the non-browning Artic Apple. It is from a site called history weird which is a really fun site In...
View ArticleAnti-science progressives: Shermer, Mooney and Lynas weigh in
I don’t know how I missed it, but I just came across this discussion with noted skeptic Michael Shermer, environmentalist Judas Mark Lynas and no relation, Chris Mooney author of the Republican Brain....
View ArticleScientifically Illiterate Hall of Shame inducts CA State Senator Noreen Evans
Our latest induction to the Scientifically Illiterate Hall Of Shame (SIHS) is California State Senator Noreen Evans. Evans introduced a GMO labeling law in California and this is her reasoning...
View ArticleThe “Right to Be Afraid of Things You Don’t Understand” bill introduced in...
Senator Diane Feinstein introduced a companion bill to the Senate’s GMO labeling bill today called “The Right to Be Afraid of Things You Don’t Understand Act.” In a press conference announcing the...
View ArticleVermont inducted into the Scientifically Illiterate Hall of Shame plus more...
Our latest inductee to the Scientifically Illiterate Hall of Shame is the Vermont legislature for their overwhelming vote to require labeling foods containing GMO “ingredients.” In addition to that,...
View ArticleWhat if a corporation isn’t evil incarnate? A progressive’s dilemma.
It all used to be so easy. There were the good guys, us, and there were the bad guys, them. Then I meandered into the issue of GMOs. That’s when everything became complicated. I support the use of...
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