science debate megathread

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^not about religion, just anti-evolution

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[dudeman162]

checkmark athenians

[ZombieDude]

athenians

[DrenDran]

uh, yeah, residents of the city of Athens

[childofdarkness016]

Anti-GMO doesn't necessarily mean anti-science... Not only are the businesses who are in charge of them (Monsanto) often corrupt, but there are most definitely scientific reasons why we shouldn't use them in actual farms (genetic diversity being the main one). 

[awesomebread]

i once took a huge stuff, went to wipe and nothing was there. Explain THAT atheists!

Christians: 1
Atheists: 0

[Aperture Science]

ALL science?
you monster :<

[blueblur121]

Portals are bad for the environment!

And the fabric of the universe, but whatever.

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

this thread can end nothing but well

[Shadowed999]

Aethnians beleive that people came from monkeys


If that is the case, where did monkeys come from?????

Christianers: Infinity

Athnians: -12 (THEY NEVER WIN)

[Headcrab Zombie]

This doesn't even have to be at all related to religion.
There's tons of morons, like the "vaccines cause autism herpderp" people, who think they know more than the actual expertss

[SeventhSandwich]

Not only are the businesses who are in charge of them (Monsanto) often corrupt, but there are most definitely scientific reasons why we shouldn't use them in actual farms (genetic diversity being the main one).  

GMOs do not interfere with genetic diversity because they still undergo independent assortmentYes, I know it's not /completely/ independent of alleles each generation. The idea is that with an entire seed crop with the inserted gene, each new generation will still have the same genetically engineered trait while still swapping alleles.

[dudeman162]

This doesn't even have to be at all related to religion.

but...but all le reLIEgions are teh dumb.

[Gamefandan]

But GMOs are actually bad; like this isn't even an issue of being anti-science.

[SeventhSandwich]

But GMOs are actually bad; like this isn't even an issue of being anti-science.

No they're not. There's a lot of anti-GMO propaganda from people who don't like it because they think it's 'unnatural' but very little actual science showing that GMOs are bad for you. There was a French study done with a few dozen lab mice that showed that mice who consumed GMO corn grew tumors, but the sample size was very small and it was performed with lab mice that spontaneously generate tumors for cancer research. I think what it boils down to is that people distrust them because they aren't natural, which means very little and doesn't actually make them bad or good for you.

I can link you to a video where an actual cancer researcher brown townyzes the current science being done with GMOs. He explains things very clearly and actually understands the material he's talking about.