July 13, 2016 | Genetic Literacy Project
Last week’s condemnation of Greenpeace by 110 Nobel Laureates for being anti-science on GMOs did not come as any surprise to most people. The King of Mean Green uses bully tactics rather than science to force their lobbying position, using poor, often retracted studies as a basis to run ethically-challenged PR campaigns that fill consumers and brand managers with an equal balance of fear and loathing. I suspect the Nobel Laureates spoke out as Greenpeace was leading the same dishonest tactic on Golden Rice that they had pulled off on glyphosate the year before.
The week that ended with the Nobel Laureate’s lambasting of Greenpeace (accusing them, rightfully, of crimes against humanity), began with the European Commission abandoning its responsibilities towards farmers and European consumers by capitulating to NGO and Green Party pressure on renewing the authorisation of glyphosate: the most widely used and most studied herbicide. This indicated not only a failure of European leadership, but a clear success of the lamentable NGO strategy of using activist scientists to serve as the foundation of credibility assassination campaigns.....To Read More....
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