The anti-GMO believers have learned that the constant release of tenuous, unconfirmed, even fake, information is critical to their misinformation campaign, as it resonates favorably with the biotech-knowledge-less. Such nuggets of fraud are stitched together by social media, gaining momentum from wide acceptance among the willing, and are incorporated into the permanent body of their factless reality.
Last week at Sustainable Pulse I found this:
The story claims that students are fed Bt rice in the cafeterias of Huazhong Agricultural University (HAU; the region’s leading ag university), and now ten students are sick with leukemia. Even if that was true, those numbers are hardly statistical reinforcement of anything, especially at a university where most days you can’t see 50 m down the street. HAU is in Wuhan, China, and the air quality is pretty rotten. I think, as usual, the whole story is trash.
Once again, news travels fast, but bogus reports that satisfy the anti-GMO bias travel faster, install better, and add new bedazzling to the contorted fabric of misinformation that blankets the movement.
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