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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (4058)	1/1/2017 12:46:37 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356484

Its a response by someone paying attention to and accurately relating reality. Growth comming out of this recession was unusually weak. (To be fair growth out of the previous recession was also unusually weak). Anti-GMO as a category is rather silly. Everything is genetically modified, food crops have nearly all been genetically modified by humans, now humans are just better at it. You don't want food with genes modified by humans? Fine have some corn voices.nationalgeographic.com (technically its closest living relative, the actual ancient corn isn't around to photograph) Specific genetic modifications (whether done with gene splicing or by older methods such as selective breeding and exposure to mutagens) could possibly be faulty, but almost all the controversy is about genetic modification in general (with specific cases mostly used as examples of how horrible the whole idea is rather than a case of people shouting get rid of modification X on product Y, but gives us genetic modifications A,B,C,D and E). It even goes beyond "modified genes", ---- 80 Percent of Americans Want to Label Food That Contains DNA Sigh Katherine Mangu-Ward May. 24, 2016 3:25 pm reason.com ---- As for vaccines - --- What about vaccines? Berezow mentions data showing that vaccine refusals are highest in notoriously Blue states like Washington, Vermont, and Oregon. In fact, the vaccine/autism scare was fueled in part by prominent lefties like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., writing in popular publications such as Rolling Stone and Salon. In addition, such non-fringy characters as then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) have declared things like, “We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has made similar statements. ---- But maybe you have a lot of conservative people in liberal states against it. Even in places like Vermont, its not like you don't have conservatives. A more solid case of anti-science belief being more prominent on the left would be support for homeopathy, "crystal healing", and astrology.