Tag: PR Spin

In the culture war of fact: lead with the values

GMOs are not the only fashionably foolish denialism sloshing around the internet. Chris Mooney explains over at Mother Jones: “So is there a case study of science denial that largely occupies the political left? Yes: the claim that childhood vaccines are causing an epidemic of autism. Its most famous proponents are an environmentalist (Robert F….

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Gosh! Whoever would have believed that anti-technology lobbyists would be biased and misleading with claims they make in public? No-wonder George Monbiot was fooled for years.

Fill in the XXXs below as you see fit. How the anti-XXX lobby misled us all with dodgy claimsGeorge Monbiot, The Age, MelbourneApril 6, 2011 When the facts don’t suit, the movement resorts to the folly of cover-up allegations.OVER the past fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-XXX movement to which I once…

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An Independent take on the Pope’s GM position

Is the Catholic Church in favour of GM crops? Lab Notes By Steve Connor Tuesday, 14 December 2010 Is the Vatican close to endorsing the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in order to feed the world’s growing population? Could it be that the Catholic Church is about to take a moral position on GM…

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Vedic businesses use clever advertising to implant beliefs about “Natural Law” in consumers psyches

Over at ” Consider Icarus…” Cami Ryan had posted this on: Genetic ID and its questionable connections… By gathering information and data points through a review of publically available online information (journal articles and web pages), I generated a network on Genetic ID and the firm’s connections to a complexity of actors and institutions. The…

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Do you support innovation in South Australian crop trials? Vote here.

We need to alert you all to the fact that a poll on GM crop trials in South Australia is open on the Stock and Land website at the moment. See the right side bar on http://stage.sj.farmonline.com.au/news/state/grains-and-cropping/general/gm-trials-extended/2013833.aspx I encourage you all to vote and also to encourage any like minded colleagues to vote as…

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Everything we eat is made from corn?

At the Yutube video, The Office Sustainability Committee have a conversation about technology and sustainability, but there is little two-way communication.

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For those who find the ongoing debate about genetic technology tiresome, some inspiration from Czeslaw Milosz

Paraphrasing Johan Norberg at the big ideas forum, CIS For Eastern European satirist and Nobel prize winner, Czeslaw Milosz the object lesson of the years of Eastern European socialism was resistance against stupidity.

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Scaremongering on shoddy ABC TV program about “GM trees” is dissected at On-line opinion

Tasmania fumes over media misconduct – On Line Opinion – 7/7/2010 Scaremongering on shoddy ABC TV program Australian Story about supposedly “GM trees” has been dissected at On-line opinion. A few snippets from Online Opinion are given below Tasmania fumes over media misconduct Mark Pointer

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