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["scrooge McDuck" <declan@planetmail.net>]

It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic for the planet.

There was scientific consensus that the earth was flat; that you could never travel in a car  over 21 mph because the breath would be pushed out of your chest;  There was scientific consensus about Phlogistron; aether etc.

Here are a few other notable gaffes attributed to 'Respectable' people:

• "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876.

• "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

• "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." -- Lee DeForest, inventor.

• "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

• "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

• "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With the Wind."

• "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

• "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

• "Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.

  

Regards 

Declasn Moriarty 

Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 at 6:26 PM
From: "Lawrence London" <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Nobel laureates urge Greenpeace to stop opposing GMOs | Reuters

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nobel laureates urge Greenpeace to stop opposing GMOs | Reuters
>
> http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gmo-nobels-idUKKCN0ZG2UZ?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social
>
> Nobel laureates urge Greenpeace to stop opposing GMOs
>
> http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gmo-nobels-idUKKCN0ZG2UZ?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Social
> <http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gmo-nobels-idUKKCN0ZG2UZ?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social>
>
> It is not just the GMO it is also the herbicides and insecticides and
> chemical fertilizers needed to get the gmo crop to grow and produce a
> harvestable product as well as dilution and abandonment of local food
> production systems that grow conventional and traditional crops. Gmo
> proponents never mention this because they know gmo ag is completely
> negative from every perspective bar none. It is a total scam and a huge lie
> and in a sense a form of genocide and major environmental degradation,
> nearly permanent.
> Ban GMO agriculture! Bring our bees and our biologically robust natural
> soil back!
>

The really disgusting paid shills at work on time trying their lame best to
squelch dissent:

Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say - NYTimes.com
<http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/stop-bashing-gmo-foods-more-than-100-nobel-laureates-say.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/>
(mobile.nytimes.com <https://www.reddit.com/domain/mobile.nytimes.com/>)
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4qs4ks/stop_bashing_gmo_foods_more_than_100_nobel/?st=iq406zyx&sh=5c1906ef

[–]mattgmann <https://www.reddit.com/user/mattgmann>[S
<https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4qs4ks/stop_bashing_gmo_foods_more_than_100_nobel/>
] [score hidden] an hour ago

<....> The myth of GMO cancer was produced by an Italian " scientist "
names Seralini. He conducted a study in which he claimed mice feed GMOs
were more likely to developer tumors. The study was later retracted by the
journal with much embarrassment after the scientific community tore it to
shreds. Seralini eventually got it republished in an open journal of very
questionable integrity. I will not go into all of the factors wrong with
the test, or with Seralini 's history of self promotion and sensationalism,
suffice to say, if you find credence in his work, you are actively denying
reality and fall in the same space as Christians who believe the world is
6000 years old.

This is the lynchpin of many anti GMO arguments. Reactionary, hyperbolic
activists are some of the most dangerous people in the world.
<>
Really.
Well how about _that_. WE are some of the most dangerous people in the
world. That's going some. Lavrenti P. Beria will be rolling in his grave
over the new competition.
<>
How many pro gmo advocates do we have in this list?


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