Re: [DIYbio] Re: Synbio and DIYbio referenced in World Economic Forum Global Risks 2015 report

This argument would hold more water for me if there weren't already a
multi-billion voluntarily labelled and anti-GMO market: Organic food.
And plenty of people who subscribe to it entirely, creating a control group.

All of which is irrelevant, because GE foods are already extensively tested.

The "control group" in this case is also anti-everything, including
vaccines and antibiotics, and are currently suffering from a serious
measles problem. The confounding factors involved in treating nutters as
a "natural experiment" are significant and difficult to account for.
They're also fond of letting unlicensed people jab them with hot
needles, realign their spinal column, and feed them dilute "mystery
medicine" or mercury-laced ayurveda, so you really can't tell if a
difference between groups is due to your chosen factor or something else.

Maybe this is radical of me to suggest, but there's this thing called
the "scientific method" which is fairly good at establishing whether
stuff is safe or not, and applying it in this case might be a good
approach. Oh wait, people have. Extensively. Repeatedly. Ad nauseum.

On 31/01/15 05:52, Jonathan Cline wrote:
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> On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 11:55:12 AM UTC-8, Cory Geesaman wrote:
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> Personally I'm for GMO labels and having a viable market for non-GMO
> foods - if only to ensure we have something to fall back on ...
> Paranoia does serve a legitimate evolutionary purpose in a large
> number of situations - it's almost always good to have a portion of
> the population that doesn't do things the same way as everyone else
> and if paranoia of GMO spurs that it is worth keeping.
>
>
>
> Well said. Also, studies always need good control groups. If labels
> exist then there will be groups which are inclusive or exclusive for
> certain ingredients. Now if only microbiome studies could include
> pure vegans as a separate experimental group, that would be really
> something. When I have asked PI's about this, usually "lack of
> funding" is cited as the excuse.
>
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