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There’s plenty of inaccurate, misleading and ungrammatical information on the Internet, of course, but last week I was surprised to see it on the opinion page of one of the nation’s premier newspapers – an uninformed, inarticulate diatribe about genetic engineering by Los Angeles Times editorial writer and occasional columnist Karin Klein.
Klein wasted no time getting it wrong: The very first sentence of her piece was a non sequitur — “There’s a dearth of evidence that genetically engineered food is dangerous to human health — but that doesn’t mean consumers are wrong to have concerns about its effect on the environment and on non-bioengineered crops.”
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Read the full story here: Fear And Loathing Of Genetic Engineering At The Los Angeles Times
