Cranks Sowing Seeds of Doubt
Thanks to Alex Palazzo for alerting me to the article The Paranoid Style in American Science by Daniel Engber of Slate. This is a three-part series on radical skepticism and the rise of conspiratorial...
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New Site Pushes Peer-Reviewed Science Over Misinformation
A few years ago, next to a small barn converted into a winery, I noticed a flyer asking voters to support Measure M, an initiative in Sonoma county that sought to ” prohibit the raising, growing,...
View ArticleBill Gates speaks at UC Berkeley about global inequities in food security
For a short 5 minute tour of Bill Gates tackling the controversy of GE crops, please see the blog ERV. Thanks for the plug ERV If you have 45 minutes, watch the entire video here. Bill is serious,...
View ArticleThe likelihood of pollen from GE cotton causing harm to the environment is...
One more day to vote in the , which asks the question “Is Biotechnology compatible with sustainable agriculture?” PZ Myers answers the question this way: “this is weird: agriculture is biotechnology,...
View ArticleWhat would Rachel Carson say about genetically engineered crops?
Generalizing about “GMOs” is almost completely useless. Each food we eat and each farm is so different that the genetic technologies and farming practices needed to optimize sustainability must be...
View ArticleJulia Gordon imagines Stewart Brand’s “Green genes”
Here is a link to a an interesting new book by Julia Gordon. She just graduated from Washington University in St Louis as a graphic design major, and for her senior thesis she designed an informational...
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The “GMO” debate is growing up
MT The debate on genetically engineered crops (the so-called “GMOs”) has begun to grow up. Anti-GMO protests are fizzling. Why? Some consumers are embracing an emerging “geek consciousness” – a...
View ArticleA fusion of science, technology, policy and design for a new kind of green
Conservation Remix was an event with a mission—to foster creative thinking about the big environmental issues of our time. The organizers aimed to broaden the definition of what it means to be “green”....
View ArticleWhy labeling of GMOs is actually bad for people and the environment « The...
Why labeling of GMOs is actually bad for people and the environment « The Berkeley Blog. This is a very balanced and knowledge-based post by the widely respected agricultural economist, David...
View ArticleIs Greenpeace misinterpreting data?
New study concludes” “The western bean cutworm is neither a ‘new plant pest’ nor ’caused by GE corn’ as stated by Greenpeace.”
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