Big Gap Between What Public and Scientists Think
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Metaphysics
stopped reading theresilence, edomite. sciendevils are a lie
what?
just remember some folks think the sun revolves around us and that the earth is flat
Metaphysics: "The branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space."Metaphysics
The very process of thinking metaphysically begins scientific questioning.
Exactly my point. And here comes the clown show, laughing simply because I used the word metaphysics.
Dudes like @Serious would've been the main culprits trying to hang people who said the world wasn't flat.
The coli "Higher Learning" huh?
I'm amazed at the massive amount of people who've never taken a basic physics class or even heard of capernicous and the heliocentric theory
Problem is most of the studies you hear about in the media are ones that draw these ridiculous conclusions. Those are often poor studies that are funded by people with their own interests in mind.
Good studies done without commercial influence are are published everyday, b.
If you don't understand scientific methodology, you should leave it to actual scientists to interpret them.
Brown_Pride
All Star
I hate to admit it and perhaps as a father I shouldn't foster these ideas in the minds of my children as it can create sense of arrogance but I tell my kids all the damn time that the majority of people are just dumber than shyt.The general public is RETARDED. I'm not even on some arrogant tip. I know jack shyt about finance. So I hire a financial advisor. I know jack shyt about fixing my car...so I trust the mechanic/dealer. If I disagree on a quote, I hop online and do my own research and educate myself on the topic enough to have a PROPER discourse. Etc.
With science, everyone is suddenly an expert and knows what's best for them, based on scare tactics and half assed news reports. Its disturbing. Most these people never research anything, but say they heard that vaccines can give their piece of shyt child autism
By the way...most of us have never seen a non-GMO food in our lives. Think about that for a second.
I try to balance it with teaching them to be humble and understanding but when they have access to youtube, america's funniest home videos and shows like "World's Dumbest" and or the Carbanaro Effect there's only so much magic weaving I can do to NOT make people look like idiots....
You fukin retards help me help you got damn it.
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
One of my friends from college was a dietician. I dont know if you would consider him a scientist... but he knew a great deal about GMOs. I used to bother him about GMOs all the time.
I learned that basically GMOs are incredibly dangerous, but not really from eating them.
The ppl eating them will be fine.
The bigger, more complex promblem occurs when one of a number of things happen. One... they irreversably intergrate into the natural system we already have and change it. For example, we no longer have natural banannas. We made them genetically extinct by accident. The litle black things in the middle are underdeveloped seeds. But because of us making them 'seedless' and the seedless ones crossbreeding, now we have to plant banannas because if we dont they cant reproduce on their own. Soon as we stop, they are extinct.
Another problem is that because the GMOs are not natural but instead created, the person creating them can copyright them.
The crops are intentionally breed to be dominant, so if they accidently come across natural crops the offspring is the copyrighted GMO.
So companies like Monsanto can airdrop seeds into the atmosphere in other countries (and they do) and come back in 6 months, test the crops, then sue the indegenous farmers and take their farms.
(Look up farmer suicides.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers'_suicides_in_India#GM_crops
Over 10,000 farmers killed themselves since 2005 just in India.
Its not some small thing.
There are other problems as well... but yeah. GMOs are a real problem AND they are mostly safe to eat. Most people think its one or the other... but its not.
I learned that basically GMOs are incredibly dangerous, but not really from eating them.
The ppl eating them will be fine.
The bigger, more complex promblem occurs when one of a number of things happen. One... they irreversably intergrate into the natural system we already have and change it. For example, we no longer have natural banannas. We made them genetically extinct by accident. The litle black things in the middle are underdeveloped seeds. But because of us making them 'seedless' and the seedless ones crossbreeding, now we have to plant banannas because if we dont they cant reproduce on their own. Soon as we stop, they are extinct.
Another problem is that because the GMOs are not natural but instead created, the person creating them can copyright them.
The crops are intentionally breed to be dominant, so if they accidently come across natural crops the offspring is the copyrighted GMO.
So companies like Monsanto can airdrop seeds into the atmosphere in other countries (and they do) and come back in 6 months, test the crops, then sue the indegenous farmers and take their farms.
(Look up farmer suicides.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers'_suicides_in_India#GM_crops
Over 10,000 farmers killed themselves since 2005 just in India.
Its not some small thing.
There are other problems as well... but yeah. GMOs are a real problem AND they are mostly safe to eat. Most people think its one or the other... but its not.
OneManGang
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I have no problem with us talking about the repercussions of GMOs on local populations and their environmental impact. These are good points. I have a problem when people think they are somehow unsafe to eat.
