Eggplant Podcast Sparks Angry Response
My podcast has been up for over a year, now reaching 50 episodes. In that time it has been a pleasure to cater to an audience of scholars and science enthusiasts. I've deliberately kept the content hard with science, minimal with opinion, and sticking to the evidence. I've avoided Big Ag products and focused on the good things technology can do. In general, the anti-GMO world has left me alone. I don't find much negativity about the podcast online and the site itself is generally unmolested. I do occasionally receive disparaging comments, but curate most of them out when received. This is an educational forum. So imagine my surprise when I posted this week's podcast on the Bt Brinjal (eggplant, aubergine). The response was angry and vitriolic, both in submitted comments and in social media. The podcast comments section has a dozen comments like these, all unapproved. I'm not allowing an educational resource to become their cesspool. Some o