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In reply to the discussion: 109 Nobel Laureates sign a letter slamming Greenpeace. [View all]HuckleB
(35,773 posts)69. I know you do.
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Believe me, I know. The entire organization consists of people who couldn't pass high school...
NNadir
Jun 2016
#2
No, it doesn't. It has lost all credibility with anyone who cares about ethics and science.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#8
That's certainly the right wing meme that corporate bad actors love to spread.
kristopher
Jul 2016
#9
FFS, the problems with Greenpeace's history of BS aimed at GMOs is spelled out in the OP.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#28
You claim Greenpeace is motivated to lies and distortion due to the fact they are a nonprofit.
kristopher
Jul 2016
#59
Climate change and the sixth global mass-extinction event is happening now
SoLeftIAmRight
Jul 2016
#62
Of course the articles you source from note that Greenpeace does do good work
Scootaloo
Jul 2016
#84
The harm Greenpeace has done is immense and it does not give a rip about repair.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#91
Thanks. It think this was the original report. The number of Laureate signatories is now 110...
NNadir
Jul 2016
#10
The nuclear industry loves to try blaming Greenpeace for their failures also.
kristopher
Jul 2016
#11
Got it. You believe corporations are motivated by profit and power seeking to act ethically...
kristopher
Jul 2016
#37
So you don't believe that the legal structures corps work to have implemented are meaningful?
kristopher
Jul 2016
#33
But it's the one manifestation that everyone (including GP) freaks out about.
progressoid
Jul 2016
#49
I, and 110 Nobel Prize winners, agree. Greenpeace is ignorant, and in my opinion, evil.
NNadir
Jul 2016
#25
LOL? I'm sure you're giggling. I'm not. Seven million people die from air pollution each...
NNadir
Jul 2016
#52
I can't say I'm worried. Actually, I can't see much of the goofiness, as I use the "ignore"...
NNadir
Jul 2016
#94
I went with ignore, for a while, but realized it tends to let the fictions off the hook.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#97
I used to feel the same way. I changed my mind though. If one goes in deep enough with these...
NNadir
Jul 2016
#101
Considering that every organism on the planet are genetically modified organisms,
Agnosticsherbet
Jul 2016
#54
Every organism has evolved, there fore every organism is genetically modified
Agnosticsherbet
Jul 2016
#107
There is no evolutionary case in which DNA from unrelated species are mutually inserted, period.
eridani
Jul 2016
#108
There is noting special about a gene whether it comes from a Shark, human, banana, or a blowfly.
Agnosticsherbet
Jul 2016
#110
I have personally met Monsanto scientists, and toured their mass spec labs in Saint Louis.
NNadir
Jul 2016
#86
I am aware of the FAO, it's potato diversity and banana diversity programs and a whole host...
NNadir
Jul 2016
#100
This post is entirely filled with specious associations that I will address at some other time.
NNadir
Jul 2016
#116
Ha Ha. Evil joke. The OP is about a freaking GMO public relations shit fling.
Scientific
Jul 2016
#78
Um...um...um...so your theory is that evil Nobel Laureates are in an occult conspiracy?
NNadir
Jul 2016
#87
Wonder if they will sign a letter attacking me for refusing to buy State Farm insurance--
eridani
Jul 2016
#105