skeptical said:
Where I get critical, is when political lobby groups use lousy science to push a barrow based on poor data and worse interpretation.
Not the corporate ones - by far the most powerful and prevalent and significantly dangerous ones involved in the GM issue.
You support them uncritically, and push their agenda as well as their fatuous "science" and made-for-TV arguments, right here. You don't subject them to any critical analysis whatsoever, not even on the simplest and most basic of considerations: money talks.
To remember whenever listening to a corporate spokesman/scientist or captured regulatory agency official or the like: "It is very difficult to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on his not understanding it."
skeptical said:
Conspiracies, to be real, must be secret.
Nothing I have asserted is happening needs to be a conspiracy among people on a mission to do evil. Simply acting in their own best personal and economic interests, one step at a time, will lead most of the main actors to behave exactly as they do.
And very little of it is actually secret. The capture of the regulatory agencies is in the public record, the record of past infelicities is available to us, the motives and essential interests of the major players are not mysteries or matters of guesswork.
And the detailed business plans of large, for-profit corporations are often secret - normally so. One reasonably accurate single term description of the upper level organization of a large, management controlled, multilevel corporation is simply 'conspiracy' - that's what it
is.
Ask yourself how the trans fat debacle happened.