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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

JoeyT

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1. I pretty much agree with him.

Reply to HuckleB (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 04:37 AM

Jun 2012

And the worst part is the anti-GMO crowd are damaging their own cause.

Pretty much everyone admits Monsanto is a terrible company, but one of the main stumbling blocks to doing anything about them is the anti-GMO crowd. It works the same way as the truthers screwing up any ability to talk about Bush using 9/11 as a political tool: As soon as you start talking about it someone will pop up with "Bush did it! Alex Jones said so!" and utterly derail the conversation.

It's tempting to think some of these people are actively funding and pushing the conspiracy theories against them, since it makes anyone that opposes anything they do look nuts. Does that make me a meta-conspiracy theorist?

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Environmentalism and anti-science, how GMOs prove any ideological extremity leads to anti-science [View all] HuckleB Jun 2012 OP

I pretty much agree with him. JoeyT Jun 2012 #1

Meta conspiracy theorist Rainforestgoddess Jun 2012 #2

I'd see it as more a compound or exponential conspiracy theorist dmallind Jul 2012 #3

There is definitely a simpler way to summarize it. TheWraith Jul 2012 #4