On 11/22/2013 06:31 AM, John Palmer wrote:
> I recently had an experience trying to comment on web sites that I
> thought was interesting. I have been trying to promote awareness
> of a paper by Stephanie Seneff and Anthony Samsel that details
> mechanisms by which glyphosate may contribute to diseases that
> have reached epidemic proportions since GMOs were introduced.
>
> Tom Philpott has written about the GMO labeling bill in Washington
> State for Mother Jones and I had the idea of contacting him by
> submitting a comment to his article on the subject. I registered with
> disqus and posted the comment (I've appended the comment I made below)
> The comment then appeared at the top of the comments and I logged out
> of the site to do other things. When I returned to the Mother Jones
> site the next day the comment I made had been removed. I was puzzled
> since the usual treatment at moderated sites is to hold off
> publication until the moderator can pass on suitability before the
> comment is published. Since then I have attempted to post this same
> information
> at the Business Week web site in the comment section for an article on
> some variety of GMO wheat that had escaped into the wild. Again I
> registered with disqus and the information was posted without apparent
> problem. I returned an hour later and the comment I made had been
> removed. As an experiment I returned to the Mother Jones web site and
> attempted to post a comment to a second article by Tom Philpott about
> GMOs. This time the comment I made simply disappeared -- it never
> appeared at all in the comment section. I suspect that disqus is the
> culprit here but, of course, I have no way of knowing. At the very
> least this does suggest that it is possible to manipulate on line
> discussions in a disturbing way.
>
> The comment I posted on the Mother Jones and Business Week web sites
> was substantially:
>
> I am writing to promote awareness of an article by Stephanie Seneff
> and Anthony Samsel on the toxic effects of glyphosate. The article can
> be found on the web at,
>
> http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
>
> The biochemistry in this paper is a bit intense and I would recommend
> viewing a video of Stephanie Seneff giving a lecture at Wellesley that
> can be found at,
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqWwhggnbyw&feature=youtu.be#t=18m35s
>
> The upshot of the article is that the Shikimate pathway that
> glyphosate interupts in plants to commit herbicide is also present in
> our beneficial gut bacteria. Exposure to glyphosate kills these
> bacteria and so prevents them from synthesizing aromatic amino acids
> that are
> essential for us and which we cannot synthesize without the help of
> these bacteria. Seneff and Samsel also detail biochemical mechanisms
> by which glyphosate may be a causal agent in a whole host of diseases
> that have reached epidemic proportions in the age of GMOs, including
> autism, obesity, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Because
> these diseases are not well understood, what Seneff and Samsel
> actually do is show that there are mechanisms through which glyphosate
> can account for numerous markers for these various diseases. These
> markers
> have been established in the large scientific literature on the
> diseases. If Seneff and Samsel are right Roundup should be banned
> and the whole GE project is called into question.
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