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Countering the propaganda of the biotech industry. 🐘 https://t.co/JYMrD1ISJy. 🦋💙 https://t.co/oi3HcN0miI
Joined August 2009
A key reason gene editing shouldn't be deregulated is all the hype about its precision & accuracy is BS. Even Harvard's George Church calls #CRISPR "a blunt axe". He says, "it's called editing, I think it's really genome vandalism." Yet the Govt thinks it needs no safety checks!
@eben_kirksey "#CRISPR can persist in cells for weeks, bouncing around the chromosomes, producing damage to DNA over and over again every time it finds a near match to the intended target"—@eben_kirksey on how the 'gene editing' metaphor hides the messy cellular reality
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If you wonder why the veteran science writer @mbalter calls the Genetic Literacy Project "paid shills", have a read of this
Hilarious. I will skip over my scientific “illiteracy” (grad degree in biology @UCLA and 47 years as science journalist including 25 at Science) and go straight to the laughability of Entine calling a peer reviewed paper in a major journal a “POS.” GLP are paid shills.
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RT @jofromgreylynn: ‘If New Zealand’s deregulation lobby gets its way, the country would have weaker GMO regulations than even the US – an…
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Big Ag pushes some of the highest pesticide use on Iowa. No coincidence Iowa ranks 2nd for cancer incidence and is the only state where cancer rates are rising. RSVP today to help occupy the state capitol February 10 and rally to kill the Cancer Gag Act!
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RT @PeasantsLeague: We are back to Kenya Court of Appeal over our Stay Application seeking Conservatory Orders/Injunction against the inten…
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His withdrawal of funding from USAID agricultural initiatives might also create space for local initiatives, such as the agroecology agenda, to flourish. It could starve some institutions that have been pushing U.S. interests in our agriculture. That said...
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RT @ecoreflections: 50 years ago biotechnologists got together and decided they should regulate themselves, ushering in an era of lack of r…
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RT @pricklyresearch: I have to periodically say this: If we trust a lab enough to give it $$$ to do work that could kill us all, we damn…
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RT @GMWatch: Inaugural lecture TODAY by Prof Michael Antoniou, whose group at @KingsCollegeLon has shown exposure to realistic levels of #g…
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@Bayer EPA rely on industry research despite “numerous instances where firms knew their products caused harm but sought to limit public disclosure of those studies. Many dangerous products have been on the market for years.” Often EPA take decades to withdraw approval for such products.
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Some good news from Wyoming
The hearing that was slated for tomorrow morning to give pesticide companies immunity from cancer ( and other harms) lawsuits in Wyoming is NOT happening!!! Thank you Wyoming!!!
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Some wonderfully racist BS: Farmers with cancer should not be allowed to sue @Bayer for the harm they suffer because punishing Bayer (a German firm) might enable the sneaky Chinese to dominate the #glyphosate market!
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