The focus of the organic food movement has never been solely on nutritional quality of the food itself. It’s not just about whether the products are safer for consumers, but about whether the farming processes are safer for the environment—which of course has an effect on everyone’s health. Although I acknowledge…

Read this thread and see how often people attack the anti-science hippie boogeyman instead of engaging the genuine concerns.

Actually, some varieties of insects and diseases are developing resistance more quickly with the GMOs. So, that’s a concern, I think.

You seem a little out in the cold here so I’d like to say I’m skeptical as well. I don’t think that makes me some anti-science loon. Any true science is based on skepticism. So the idea that having doubts is anti-science is a little anti-thinking, IMO.

GMOs are not good or bad. However, they may have a detrimental effect on the environment, meaning they should be approached with extreme caution. Generally speaking, humans have a poor track record of test first, “SHIT!”, any solutions? For example, Roundup Ready corn is actually problematic because the Roundup gets…

The people pushing GMOs want to sell pesticides and herbicides. They want to create a closed, proprietary system that coerces growers to use products exclusively from a single manufacturer. In the future, there won’t be Gala or Washington apples, just Dow and DuPont ones.

Scientists are just as likely to be motivated by greed, prejudice, or any folly of human nature, as anyone is. Maybe some just want to stay on the payroll or see their stock options increase in value.

I never once stated that GMOs cause cancer.

Doesn’t common sense tell you that wide-spread use of toxic chemicals in agriculture seem maybe kind of short-sighted and bad?

GMOs = doused in carcinogens. I think genetic modification has exciting possibilities, but all the stuff they spew about feeding the world is propaganda.

Are you sure you don’t work for PR? GMOs are not even close to the same as the “food we’ve already been genetically modifying” for centuries.

I kinda don’t even want to talk about this, but I feel like I have a responsibility to if anyone out there who might be like me and might read this.

Maybe it’s an auto-immune reaction to something in the patient’s long nerve axons?

As someone who struggles with depression I can relate to this. It’s another 1st world imaginary disease with no physical evidence. I waver all the time on whether it is real. The pain seems real, but maybe it’s not?

I would hesitate to call these “delusions” - it sounds like there’s considerable debate. I for one have never heard of this and plan on doing more reading.

Seriously. The selenium, hexazinone, and cow poo I was handling on a quiet day for soil remediation work was more than toxic enough. Just about the only thing I screen for in my life is excessive high fructose corn syrup, what with the biomedical/physiology/biochemistry background I have and a love for my pancreatic…

I spent a year getting dismissed as anorexic (I'm not) and anxious (I am a little, but so what, and no history of being a hypochondriac) when it turned out my problem was I had cancer. I'm doing fine with that now, but when I recently had to see a doctor (not my regular doctor) about an unrelated minor health issue…