Repeat a Lie Often Enough...
It was Nazi guy and photographic sour-puss Joe Goebbels that might have said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Nobody really knows for sure that it was The Goebbler, and ironically this quotation has been ascribed to everyone from Hitler to Martha Stewart. It does encapsulate the phenomenon spawned by the 2011, long-debunked paper by Aris and LeBlanc, claiming to detect the BT protein (presumably from transgenic crops, but that control was never done) in fetuses and pregnant mothers. There have been a number of brilliant discussions of why this work is not credible, posted here , here , here . here and here . I even discussed it here . One of them is from New Zealand and the other from a French dude, two classes typically not immediately disqualified as corporate lackeys. But those facts don't get in the way of GMO Free USA, a group that latches on to any report it can manipulate, regardless of its