The Cause of Mysterious Bird/Fish Deaths Revealed!
Over the last week there have been numerous reports of widespread avian and fish death. Apparently large swarms of birds and huge schools of fish give up the ghost for no known reason. Or so it is thought.
The genius think tank over at Natural News has it all figured out. In his January 4th column Mike Adams applies his usual less-than-rigorous approach to resolve this mystery. The column speculates based on zero evidence:
For all we know, these 100,000 dead fish are downstream from a field of GMO corn that mutated into something even more deadly than the GMOs we already know. This may not be so far-fetched, actually:Monsanto has a corporate office in Arkansas(in Stuttgart, Arkansas) that's not too many miles from the Arkansas River.
Let me get this straight. His hypothesis is that there was a mutation in GMO corn that was specific to the transgene, not the 40,000 other genes, and then this corn was magically transported into water and killed fish, because the Monsanto office is a few miles away.
Is it just me, or does this reek of intellectual emptiness?
Adams makes his usual allegations and conclusions without any evidence supporting them. In other words, making shit up. Only the scientifically bankrupt could make such leaps. In typical Natural News/Anti-GMO fashion, the ignorant choose to dismiss real causes and facts to promote an agenda that feels groovy but is scientifically baseless. This misdirection leads us away from real causes and eventual, scientific solutions.
Yo Mike, what are the "deadly GMOs we already know"? From the peer-reviewed literature please. Oh, that's right, you can't find it there because BigFarma owns all the journals and scientists, leaving websites and opinions to do the scholarly heavy lifting.
Sadly, the article was also picked up by Google News. That's how I found it. The problem is that Natural News isn't about news at all, it is a website dedicated to promoting the naturalistic fallacy. There is no science, no rigor, no review, just the opinions of a few whack jobs that make money by promoting junk and junk science.
Of course, maybe if the fish and birds were wearing Kinoki Foot Pads or energy bracelets this stuff would not happen.
The genius think tank over at Natural News has it all figured out. In his January 4th column Mike Adams applies his usual less-than-rigorous approach to resolve this mystery. The column speculates based on zero evidence:
For all we know, these 100,000 dead fish are downstream from a field of GMO corn that mutated into something even more deadly than the GMOs we already know. This may not be so far-fetched, actually:Monsanto has a corporate office in Arkansas(in Stuttgart, Arkansas) that's not too many miles from the Arkansas River.
Let me get this straight. His hypothesis is that there was a mutation in GMO corn that was specific to the transgene, not the 40,000 other genes, and then this corn was magically transported into water and killed fish, because the Monsanto office is a few miles away.
Is it just me, or does this reek of intellectual emptiness?
Adams makes his usual allegations and conclusions without any evidence supporting them. In other words, making shit up. Only the scientifically bankrupt could make such leaps. In typical Natural News/Anti-GMO fashion, the ignorant choose to dismiss real causes and facts to promote an agenda that feels groovy but is scientifically baseless. This misdirection leads us away from real causes and eventual, scientific solutions.
Yo Mike, what are the "deadly GMOs we already know"? From the peer-reviewed literature please. Oh, that's right, you can't find it there because BigFarma owns all the journals and scientists, leaving websites and opinions to do the scholarly heavy lifting.
Sadly, the article was also picked up by Google News. That's how I found it. The problem is that Natural News isn't about news at all, it is a website dedicated to promoting the naturalistic fallacy. There is no science, no rigor, no review, just the opinions of a few whack jobs that make money by promoting junk and junk science.
Of course, maybe if the fish and birds were wearing Kinoki Foot Pads or energy bracelets this stuff would not happen.
