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DDT also nearly eradicated malaria.

 

Look, I'm not for bringing DDT back, but there was a very compelling humanitarian reason for using it in the first place. It wasn't because Monsanto secretly wanted to poison either the bird or human population.

 

Just to be fair.

 

And balanced.

 

DDT was widely used in agriculture as an insecticide, which caused the evolution of resistance in mosquitoes. Its use in fighting malaria has little to do with the problems that ensued.

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GMOs are here to stay, and they're going to more and more widespread - for drug therapies, for fuel and materials production, for food, for oil spill cleanup, for fun.

 

Like all technologies, each application has its pros and cons. To claim that all GMOs are bad is like saying steel is bad because you can make guns with it.

 

Speaking of bad technologies, The Atom Bomb Movie, narrated by Captain James T himself, is on Netflix on demand. Awesome, newly released nuclear footage - even of the Czar Bomba test. If you're a Big Weapons geek, this movie's for you: lots of techy details. The Able and Baker tests were supposed to have a third brother, Charlie. Cancelled because Baker made such a fucking mess. No worries! They finally did the third, deep water test later - with a much bigger bomb, of course.

 

I especially like the aerial footage taken from...wait for it...directly ABOVE the explosion. NICE!

 

They really knew how to FUCK SHIT UP back then.

 

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there is a huge difference between proper applications for technologies (like in a controlled environment) and their uncontrolled widespread use, especially when there are significant unanswered scientific questions. Many claims made about GMOs like greater yields than other methods and lesser use of insecticides have been extensively debunked.

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GMOs are here to stay, and they're going to more and more widespread - for drug therapies, for fuel and materials production, for food, for oil spill cleanup, for fun.

 

As long as there is adequate labeling!

 

Literacy is practically taking care of itself!

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50+ years to do away with asbestos for most applications despite growing documentation of its being bad for people since the early 20th century. But hey, they didn't "mean to" when they denied the evidence for as long as they could.

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