[lbo-talk] climate change denial (mae-wan ho)

[steve houston]

Mae Wan Ho is one of the great thinkers of our time. 
Whatever the shortcomings in her arguments, there is
no way you can contort that into a backdoor defense of
GMOs.  

Other than that I tend to agree with your larger
point.
--- lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org wrote:

Scientists. Chief govt. scientific advisor Robert
Lacey predicted that

 a 
third of Britons would have contracted CJD by 1997.
Mae Wan Ho and

 Arpad 
Pusztai wrote preposterous warnings against GM food.
It was the UK 
government's scientific advisors that gave them the
alarmist figures on

 the 
AIDS pandemic (I am impressed that you resisted that
scare story, few

 people 
did, and the only American I remember objecting to it
was Katie Roiphe,

 whom 
you rubbished on some peripheral point, as I recall).
Doctor Andrew 
Wakefield published his paper on the dangers of MMR
(now exposed as

 rubbish) 
in the British Medical Journal.

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