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by koeselitz 5138 days ago
This is a gross distortion of the argument that Take The Flour Back is making. TTFB cites legitimate and real scientific concerns; they don't caricature scientists as evil by nature. Their claim, in fact, is that the people doing these experiments are not acting as scientists, in the sense that they are ignoring serious environmental dangers and running these tests purely for grant money. And I think that's a legitimate concern, for what it's worth. It's very hard to do legitimate science right now because of the money. We see this in medicine, and we certainly see it in agriculture.

So this video might be effective if the only think you know about TTFB is that they're "environmentalists," and if you extrapolate from this that they're crazy spiritist loons who hate science and knowledge. But you would be flat wrong if you did that.