Would you trust science or a yogic flying instructor with your food?

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Smith demonstrating “yogic flying” at Natural Law Party press conference in Springfield, Ill., Oct. 22, 1996.

Professional forester and writer Norm Benson recently got a healthy dose of anti-science environmentalism, because he wrote an article endorsing a vitamin-enriched bowl of rice that, nonetheless, is protested by Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists and everyone else who hates science more than they love children.

Golden Rice defies every anti-science convention that left-wing activists throw in front of biology. It is not controlled by Monsanto or any other company, it cannot possibly express anything harmful in humans, and it can’t have any effect on the environment. All it can do is save 18 million children from dying due to vitamin A deficiency and another 18 million from going blind.

Sputtering that evil biological tinkerers took a gene from corn and put it into rice and that turns it into Frankenfood just makes activists look dopey. They don’t even know enough science to be wrong, they don’t know any and don’t want to know any.

Read the full, original article: When It Comes To Food, Do You Trust Science Or A Yogic Flying Instructor?

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