"I'm not in the habit of playing chess with pigeons."
then why act as if you had an argument to begin with. I'm not going to bother with your damage control. If you say something make sure you mean it. Otherwise the only reason I can see you posting it is propaganda, in other words so that others think you have substance to your argument and thus believe you.
There was no argument at all until you jumped in simply to start one. This post was me answering questions that @pomperipossa asked based on my personal understandings & observations.. not propaganda, not a claim of any sort of authority. You stepped in and acted as though your personal understandings & observations somehow discredit mine.
"You stepped in and acted as though your personal understandings & observations somehow discredit mine."
thousands of studies > one random opinion on the internet
GMOs were not the topic of my response to him, and again, I clearly stated that I was putting out my own opinions and understandings. Also, there are thousands of studies on both sides of the GMO discussion, you're just choosing to read those that confirm your current beliefs, as humans are wont to do.
" both sides of the GMO discussion, you're just choosing to read those that confirm your current beliefs, as humans are wont to do."
I have never seen a legitimate scientific study against it, and I've searched. Put up or shut up
"But despite these shrill denials, the truth is that there is no more of a debate on the safety of GE crops than on reality of climate change, the scientific consensus on which all these same green groups aggressively defend. And the irony goes deeper: many of the strategies now being employed to demonize GMOs come straight out of the climate denialist playbook. There's the same promotion of false 'no consensus' statements by groups of self-appointed experts. Why, more than 300 "scientists and legal experts" signed a 'no consensus on GMO safety' statement last year, Greenpeace reminds us. That sounds like a lot, until you compare it with the 30,000 "American scientists" who have supposedly signed a petition claiming that there is "no convincing scientific evidence" linking CO2 with climate change, which Greenpeace (rightly in my view) ignores."
here is a link on the consensus:
http://www.ensser.org/media/0115/
This part's just too funny. If they're going for consensus, it's not science.
Exactly. No evidence exists that GMOs do harm, so the only thing anti-gmos can do is challenge consensus. Its just like climate change.
Personally, I am not anti-anything, but I will not put anything in my body created by Monsanto or their ilk, I will not give them any of my time, money, or other energy, and I will continue to grow & eat only heirloom plants.
Consensus =/= Science
Climate change is a perpetual state that the Earth is in, the push by governments to use it as an excuse to grow their power and the ridiculous arguments from both sides are, again, not related to this conversation.