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    Re: To very briefly put it another way.. Archived Message

    Posted by dereklane on October 14, 2020, 9:30 am, in reply to "To very briefly put it another way.."

    To be fair i don't think people think gm is dangerous because of that precision, but because, often, they don't understand it or think it is unnatural. That is, not usually a scientific understanding that leads them to those conclusions but the messing with nature concept.

    I personally don't like it because it commodifies nature and the food we get from it into monopolies via 'intellectual property'. In other words, my bad attitude to gm is political rather than scientific.

    On PCR related to covid, I have little doubt the scientific process is sound, but again, there are politics involved too (who we test and how we record results). I've presently not drawn conclusions on that in the form of an opinion, because I don't know enough to do so. But I can still imagine a whole bunch of ways in which the data and process for testing could be manipulated, to either side of whichever fences we sit behind, because of the politics (because everything that everyone is thinking about all of the time has a political angle that needs to be dissected).

    I'd like to think that the scientists doing the actual tests are doing their jobs, but past that, once the data is in the hands of authorities, its anyone's guess. Like with, for example, the selective under or over reporting of deaths during war. Any decent doctor knows how to tell if someone is alive or dead, and yet, depending on the ramifications of the war in question, we (at the media reader end) get selective over or under reporting of those deaths.

    A clumsy parallel I know, but not trusting govt data that we get to see is not the same thing as not trusting the science behind it. So I can understand the mistrust. I agree though that people shouldn't be shooting their mouths on the science without deferring to those who know better. Just because I read a few things on the subject doesn't make me a scientist, and genome sequencing seems fairly complicated!




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