Month: February 2014
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Once A Believer, Always A Believer?
I have been reading articles and posts lately about the recent ‘debate’ between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Young Earth Creationist Ken Ham. If you don’t know what I’m referring to, just google “Bill Nye Ken Ham” and you’ll get a long list of articles and posts to choose from, all with a slightly […]
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GMOs In The Land Of Oz
I guess anything and everything is acceptable in the name of entertainment. Tell people they can lose weight by taking an herb three times a day. Educate them about the finer points of medicine with gigantic models of body parts, colored liquids and little balls flying around. Dr. Oz, king of daytime television, trusted physician […]
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Excellent, Compact Interviews on the topic of GMOs
Awhile back I did a two-part video interview series regarding my views on GMOs with Greenstate TV. You can view parts one and two (in reverse order) here and here. Today I am posting Greenstate TV interviews with two other people whom I admire greatly. Specifically these two were absolutely instrumental in my realization that […]
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GMOs Can Be Fun!
It’s been just short of a year since I’ve had the pleasure of being among an at-large group of people who regularly speak up in favor of science. Specifically I am referring to genetic engineering, transgenic technology, genetic modification – call it what you will – in the realm of crops and food. This ‘group’ […]
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This Graphic Is Really Bugging Me
Okay. I’ve seen this graphic one too many times and I feel compelled to counteract its very misleading and frankly, naive, message. While in the science community it does little more than evoke chortles and eye-rolling, it is nonetheless a meme shared by hundreds of thousands of well-meaning but sadly under-informed consumers who place halos […]