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proverbialwisdom

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31. Check it out. DISCLAIMER: Recognized experts, although I have no familiarity with Robbins or event.
Sat Oct 26, 2013, 12:35 PM
Oct 2013

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[center]October 27: The big picture[/center]

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[center]October 25: Lifting the veil – ON REPLAY[/center]

Andrew Kimbrell – Your Right To Know

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Ok, let's look to the scientists for safety of 'food additives,' where most are exposed to GMOs. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #1
Got Gish Gallop? HuckleB Oct 2013 #4
YOU: Reject Pollan on GMOs, not a scientist. ME: Fine. Read this knowing that GMOs = food additives. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #6
GMOs are not food additives. HuckleB Oct 2013 #10
Food additives derived from GMO corn, GMO soy, GMO canola, GMO cottonseed are indeed 'GMOs.' proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #11
I said you were in la la land, and then you further prove it with your response. HuckleB Oct 2013 #13
Check it out. Full text at link. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #15
And you continue with your Gish Gallop of unrelated nonsense. HuckleB Oct 2013 #18
The science-based links are at odds with the business-based links. Got cognitive dissonance? proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #19
And you offer up another pseudoscience web site full of BS. HuckleB Oct 2013 #20
SEE POST #1, please note depth and breadth of analysis of currently abysmal state of affairs. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #21
And you're off in another direction. HuckleB Oct 2013 #22
Hardly. Here are all the links separated from the news aggregating sites you're so fond of dissing. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #23
That translates into a whole lotta recent science w zero relevance of personal attacks on M.Pollan. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #24
That translates into a bunch of nothing. HuckleB Oct 2013 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author proverbialwisdom Jan 2014 #46
The update was to my own post which lit up the yellow tab for MY POSTS and linked to this old post. proverbialwisdom Jan 2014 #48
UPDATE. proverbialwisdom Jan 2014 #45
Woo Hoo! Let's update the way people spread anti-science fears! HuckleB Jan 2014 #53
PRESS RELEASE > Environmental Chemicals Harm Reproductive Health: Ob-Gyns Advocate for Policy Change proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #2
Age of Autism? HuckleB Oct 2013 #3
Nope, The American Society for Reproductive Medicine & The American College of Obstetricians and Gyn proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #7
You fail to understand that you're not discussing the OP. HuckleB Oct 2013 #9
GMO's are mainly consumed as food additives which scientists, not Pollan, are assessing in my links. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #12
No, they're not. HuckleB Oct 2013 #14
No need to be rude. The whole world (slightly exaggerated) apart from the US is wrong? Snort. nt proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #16
The whole world's scientific community is wrong? HuckleB Oct 2013 #17
I see you suffer from the same afflication as many of your compatriots EvolveOrConvolve Oct 2013 #5
Oh, please, it's a PRESS RELEASE backed by 57,000 ob-gyns + 7.000 reproductive medicine specialists. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #8
RECOMMENDED Press Statement, along with Pollan's brilliant 'Food Rules: An Eater's Manual.' proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #26
The OP already debunked all this BS. HuckleB Oct 2013 #27
My god, more diarrhea EvolveOrConvolve Oct 2013 #28
A good look at GMO denialism. HuckleB Oct 2013 #29
Organic Food Causes Autism and Diabetes HuckleB Oct 2013 #30
Check it out. DISCLAIMER: Recognized experts, although I have no familiarity with Robbins or event. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #31
Stop posting pseudoscience on this forum. HuckleB Oct 2013 #32
Please see http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-09-03/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-NEW-PROTEINS proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #33
More bad propaganda. HuckleB Oct 2013 #36
Don't miss this. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #34
Ah, I see you've posted from the highly respected science magazine Elle EvolveOrConvolve Oct 2013 #35
FFS. HuckleB Oct 2013 #37
Go figure. Your source cynically parses words or is woefully uninformed. proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #38
I offered MULTIPLE SOURCES!!!!! HuckleB Oct 2013 #39
"This is not a hit piece on Michael Pollan" - I'd hate to read what the author does consider muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #40
A hit piece is usually not entirely accurate. HuckleB Oct 2013 #41
FYI, I just saw this. proverbialwisdom Nov 2013 #42
Both classic crank anti-GMO sources. HuckleB Nov 2013 #43
More reading for you here. proverbialwisdom Jan 2014 #47
And the pointless Gish Gallop continues. HuckleB Jan 2014 #50
If that's your understanding, may I suggest due diligence necessitates additional reading? proverbialwisdom Jan 2014 #49
Re-reading BS isn't going to change anything. HuckleB Jan 2014 #51
A Generous Offer to Dr. Huber -Turned Down HuckleB Nov 2013 #44
Pollan, Other Activists Fear Monger With Ignorance -- AGAIN! HuckleB Jan 2014 #52
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