Hoping that was a /s. Granted, the Internet is full of BS on every subject.
I first heard about GW in the late 80s. I made it a point to find out what I could from sources I could trust. It was a matter of discernment. I guess it took a couple of years before I felt I understood some of the processes and learned that many of those processes are not even understood by the people who study them for a living. It was more difficult to tease out who was reliable and what was accurate/well-understood than it was to cover basic climatology. But, then, I loved that warmer decade and last winter and this warmer Fall, so I once I decided the planet was not in peril, I just relaxed and learned to enjoy GW.
I am still learning about everything. Much more interesting than being in a panic.
I’m glad to hear you’re learning. I’m doing the same - as best I can.
The trouble is that much of science has sold out to ideology. You write as though finding the truth these days involved little more that doing an internet search.
Even among those scientists whose integrity has not been compromised, there remains so much ignorance - simply because there’s so much left to discover. So, as someone pointed out above, yesterday coffee was bad for us, but today it’s good for us.
Perhaps its premature, then, to claim that GMO (modified artificially, as opposed to, say, crossbreeding - a distinction some would obscure) is harmful. To claim it’s harmless, on the other hand, is clearly reckless.
Your eagerness to dig for the truth is a rarity, and so it seems unlikely the GMO experiment will be halted. We’ll probably know within a few decades whether or not it was a mistake.