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In reply to the discussion: More joy from Monsanto ............. [View all]mike_c
(36,214 posts)27. it's all made up....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tamar-haspel/condemning-monsanto-with-_b_3162694.html
on edit: The responses in this thread illustrate the worst sort of confirmation bias. Most respondents need to go back to school and learn how to think critically. How many of you actually read this paper? How many considered its arguments independently of its author's clear bias? Nada, I'm thinking. No wonder advertising is such effective behavior control. When you tell people made-up shit they just believe it. Sheesh.
Did you see the latest indictment of Monsanto making the rounds? It's a "peer-reviewed" paper in the journal Entropy, co-authored by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff, blaming glyphosate, the compound in the herbicide Roundup, for virtually all the ills that can befall us.
But here's the thing -- they made it up. Or, all but. They say, "We explain the documented effects of glyphosate and its ability to induce disease, and we show that glyphosate is a 'textbook example' of exogenous semiotic entropy: the disruption of homeostasis by environmental toxins." Exogenous semiotic entropy! That sounds serious. Google it, though, and you find that those three words occur together in only place. This paper. They made it up. At first, I thought the whole thing was one of those jargon-laden academic hoaxes but, alas, it isn't.
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But here's the thing -- they made it up. Or, all but. They say, "We explain the documented effects of glyphosate and its ability to induce disease, and we show that glyphosate is a 'textbook example' of exogenous semiotic entropy: the disruption of homeostasis by environmental toxins." Exogenous semiotic entropy! That sounds serious. Google it, though, and you find that those three words occur together in only place. This paper. They made it up. At first, I thought the whole thing was one of those jargon-laden academic hoaxes but, alas, it isn't.
more@link
on edit: The responses in this thread illustrate the worst sort of confirmation bias. Most respondents need to go back to school and learn how to think critically. How many of you actually read this paper? How many considered its arguments independently of its author's clear bias? Nada, I'm thinking. No wonder advertising is such effective behavior control. When you tell people made-up shit they just believe it. Sheesh.
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almost sounds like you have a flourquinolone antibiotic drug reaction-burning skin issue is common
lunasun
Apr 2013
#22
Well, then just help yourself to a glass of the herbicide.. You can buy it at HomeDepot.
glowing
Apr 2013
#5
I think there is a reason, seeing what happened with the France study, why the research
glowing
Apr 2013
#25
Sorry about not being very nice. My blood starts to boil when DUers start misleading people.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2013
#48
Accepting genetic modifications on food crops to allow glyphosate when glyphosate resistant weeds
Overseas
Apr 2013
#31
My father died of cancer and everyone blamed it on smoking but us kids knew better - we saw how he
jwirr
Apr 2013
#32
US American bodies are a cesspool of toxins with over 200 of them from birth on.
L0oniX
Apr 2013
#38