Hi Skeeter Bug; Re: "You aren't mature enough to understand what and [sic] actual logical argument is?"
Oh heck no. You saw what I did to Rambus. I just don't think you're smart enough nor balanced enough to understand a reasoned argument. So why should I make it? You got sucked in on that piece of crap because you're too stupid to understand.
Now, after just a few weeks, the whole campaign is in tatters. Here's an article in the world's premier science magazine, Nature:
Hyped GM maize study faces growing scrutiny
Yet Séralini has promoted the cancer results as the study’s major finding, through a tightly orchestrated media offensive that began last month and included the release of a book and a film about the work. Only a select group of journalists (not including Nature) was given access to the embargoed paper, and each writer was required to sign a highly unusual confidentiality agreement, seen by Nature, which prevented them from discussing the paper with other scientists before the embargo expired. Journalists often receive embargoed journal articles, and standard practice is to solicit independent assessments before the paper is published. The agreement for this paper, however, did not allow any disclosure and threatened a severe penalty for non-compliance: “A refund of the cost of the study of several million euros would be considered damages if the premature disclosure questioned the release of the study.”
In an exceptional move, the ethics committee of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) last week decried the public-relations offensive as inappropriate for a high-quality and objective scientific debate, and reminded researchers working on controversial topics of the need to report results responsibly to the public.
nature.com
If you've got the balls to click through, here's a place where you can read a bunch more articles illustrating how stupid you were. You can read about it in the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Discovery News, Science, Slate and a few blogs that were there first:
ksj.mit.edu
-- Carl
P.S. For the purpose of helping pass California's Prop. 37, I think the rat tumor thing should have been released a lot closer to the election. My guess is that it will pass but I haven't looked at the polls in a while. It should be fairly amusing.
When the public discovers that all the corn products they've been eating for years are GMO they're going to get a lot less worried about them. People say that they won't buy GMO foods but the truth is that they won't bother reading the labels. The best example of this was the campaign against cigarettes. "May cause cancer" is far more threatening than "may contain genetically modified foods", LOL, and the cigarette warning failed completely. What are they going to do with GMOs? Put photos of rats with tumors on it? LOL!!! They should put pictures of the tumors that rats get who are fed standard corn; same appearance.
And I don't think the public realizes just how common GMOs are. Almost all soft drinks in the US are either sweetened with chemicals that are supposed to taste sweet or they use corn syrup that is made from GMO corn. Avoiding that GMO corn syrup will be impossible for any large manufacturer. They'll have to splash warning labels on everything. It will be quite an amusing farce. |
