Fakethrough! GMOs and the manipulation of science journalism

[swineflu]

Everything you've been told in the mainstream media about GMOs is wrong. Interesting article:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21103...nce-journalism

Imagine if the New York Times or NBC published, under appropriately scathing headlines, a full and detailed analysis of how GMO corporations perennially manipulate the scientific literature? And then Fox News reported the real story of how the FDA, advised by its own scientists that GMOs should receive close scrutiny, took the purely political and probably illegal decision to disregard that advice? And then each story was picked up by all the other radio, print and TV news outlets? Customers would rebel, political support would disappear (not least because this would discredit the official policy information democratic representatives receive) and the industry would probably collapse. Consequently, the agbiotech industry must make sure such a scenario never happens.

It is for just this reason that BASF, Coca-Cola, Merck, L’Oreal, Monsanto, Syngenta, Smith & Nephew, the Nuclear Industry Association and their competitors now support coordinated attempts to manage scientific news coverage in the form of the UK’s Science Media Centre.

The marketing of fakethroughs is an important component of a general manipulation of the science media. But interference with the media is in turn only a part of the barely understood but vast web of influence by which the biotech industry meticulously orchestrates the perception of itself (and its products).

What is new today, and which wasn’t the case thirty years ago, is that individual industrial sectors such as the life science industry are nowadays sufficiently profitable, monopolistic, and global enough that they coordinate the flow of information that spans three distinct but interconnected domains of thought: the public domain (TV, radio, print), the scientific domain (peer-reviewed publications), and the policy domain (government reports and bureaucratic discussions).

[Rukentuts]

Yes. GMOs are really unhealthy but they have manipulated scientists into saying otherwise. It's the same thing with global warming, it doesn't really exist.

I'm sorry but this is full blown conspiracy theory land now.

[Verain]

I point by point addressed this guy in a PM for one of his locked threads, including links in response to his hypebolic claims. His response was:

"tldr. you wasted your time LOL "


Since his OP was massive, I'm assuming he just copy-pastas random conspiracy crap off the internet, presumably without reading it (everything is tldr, after all, right lol?). Don't waste your time, and mods should delete, not merely lock, his threads like this.

[Darsithis]

We've had enough of your anti-GMO conspiracy theories, most of which were proven completely wrong in the last two threads you created about this exact subject. While there is legitimate discourse to be had on the pros AND cons of GMO's, your threads are started with a biased view that we're all idiots who are being duped by every corporation that is greedily feeding us poison.

Until you can create an unbiased thread discussing GMO's without rudely attacking other posters who disagree, these threads will be locked.