tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post5923047028210953167..comments2024-01-02T10:55:10.607-06:00Comments on Angry Astronomer: Book Review – DenialismJon Voiseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11550625188837528980noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-53358551803119528562011-01-17T18:30:39.783-06:002011-01-17T18:30:39.783-06:00Unfortunately, the reason for so much scientific i...Unfortunately, the reason for so much scientific ignorance is fairly straightforward. The delusions that we call religion, faith, spirituality, and the right to "believe" rather than to "seek". And when this gets mixed with politics -- actually the same thing -- it becomes culture (be decree).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-50427966516237764932010-10-05T21:19:13.759-05:002010-10-05T21:19:13.759-05:00"All food is genetically modified by hundreds..."All food is genetically modified by hundreds and thousands of years of artificial selection. But by adding genes to add nutritional value as well as growth, we can and have improved the quality and quantity of food we produce. Given that "natural" foods haven't been fortified with extra vitamins, GMOs are in reality much better for us than the organic ones."<br /><br />Except that GMOs haven't been modified to make extra vitamins, have they? They're been modified to either produce poison (Bt) or drink it (RoundupReady). I remember the 'nutrition' propaganda quite well from a decade or more back. Naively, I believed it. I am still waiting for the nutritional biotech. In the meantime gastrointestinal disorders amongst the youth are skyrocketing. I'm sure there's no connection, though. And if I say otherwise ... I'm a denialist! <br /><br /> Another point - which Specter glosses over - is that there is a whole world of difference between selective breeding and modern genetic alteration techniques. Drawing an equivalence is like saying "People have been making war since they were people, so really, there's no difference between bows and arrows and machineguns."psychegramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11914887999856166297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-61564568294421663292010-10-01T10:40:15.298-05:002010-10-01T10:40:15.298-05:00Thanks for the review, Jon.
I am reading "De...Thanks for the review, Jon.<br /> I am reading "Deep Home Blue--An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean" by Julia Whitty. Part One: Isla Rasa is research on terns/gulls/island ecology in Gulf of CA. Part Two: The Underwater Rivers of the World really hits hard on Homo sapiens over harvesting and eco-destruction of our oceans-really quite horrifying.<br /> Another book by Derek Leebaert "Magic and Mayhem-the Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan". But can WE actually change our government's very bad decisins and policies?<br /> I attended Roger Water's live epic tour of the Wall opera/concert/staging in Boston last evening. AWESOME: Anti-war, anti-hate and anti-fear. Photo/descriptions of people "lost" in wars from people/families on the Wall during intermission. Rolling Stone magazine #1114 30 Sept 2010 has an interview with him.Chet Twarognoreply@blogger.com