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In reply to the discussion: U.S. GMO food labeling bill passes Senate [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)That's easy. Peer review!
Nobody has ever claimed that it is perfect. That would be a straw man. But it is an essential to the scientific method as it weeds out the chaff from the wheat, even if that takes some time. E.G., the Piltdown Man fraud was not caught for decades because the original bones were locked up and only casts were allowed to be studied. In hind sight, that didn't work out too well. However, in the early 50's the bones were released for testing and were found to be a human skull and an ape jaw bone. By that time, nobody had taken Piltdown man seriously for some time, mainly because of discoveries in other areas of the world.
Science is self-correcting, unlike ideological beliefs.
As I stated in another post in this thread, I will spin on a dime if there were substantial evidence that genetic modified food were shown to be unhealthy. That evidence does not exist yet. And no, I don't mean the silly non-sequitur glyphosate gambit so often cited by anti-GMO crowd as evidence that all of GM is somehow evil.
I will stand by what the science says.