Full Measure: July 31, 2022 - #ScienceWars
Today we begin with a fundamental shift that’s happening in American science. Over the centuries, scientific #debate was usually considered invaluable in order for scientific advancements to take place. But an information war launched by public health officials during the #covıd pandemic has made many ask whether that longstanding dynamic is still possible.

https://youtu.be/rk2e-Caa6WI

> The film reports many controversies surrounding the use and promotion of genetically modified seeds.. #PCBs, #AgentOrange, and bovine growth hormone. Cases in the United States.. #Canada, India, Mexico, Paraguay, the United Kingdom (Scotland) and #France..#Monsanto corporation's collusion with governments, pressure tactics, suppression and manipulation of scientific data, and extra-legal practices...
ー https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Monsanto

#Biotechnology #gmo #junkscience #ScienceWars

> As Peter Montague says, “Putting genetically-engineered plants and animals into the natural environment is nothing more than a crap shoot—one with potential consequences far greater than Monsanto’s previous calamitous experiments, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and Agent Orange” (October, 29, 1998). Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin says...
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk3.htm
#PeterMontague #GMO #PCBs #RichardLewontin #AgentOrange #Monsanto #EdwardHerman #JunkScience #pesticides #ScienceWars

> Following the furor over Silent Spring in the early 1960s, there was no slackening in the production and use of pesticides....intensity of application per acre of farmland more than doubled, pesticide use in households and home lawn care skyrocketed. Some poisons...were eventually banned, but others took their place... with known damaging effects on neurological and immune systems ...
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk3.htm
#RachelCarson #SilentSpring #EdwardHerman #JunkScience #pesticides #ScienceWars