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To: exDemMom

Genetically engineered is not precisely the same is cross breeding to improve plants.

IOW, Monsanto creating Round up ready corn is not the same as cross breeing to create better varieites of corn.

But you, the One Who Knows It All, won’t admit that you are ever wrong.

I don’t give a crap who important and knowledgeable and experienced you are or tout yourself as being; you are not all knowing, and there are many people just as highly educated and experienced in the field as yourself, who disagree with your stand on vaccines as being the wonder magic of all times.

You want to use weasel words to conflate actual genetic engineering with normal, standard cross breeding.


70 posted on 07/03/2018 2:57:22 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah
Genetically engineered is not precisely the same is cross breeding to improve plants.

Actually, it is. They are methods to alter the genome of corn to be different than the wildtype ancestor. Modern methods of genetic engineering are much more refined than older methods, and result in less change to the genome.

The difference between cross breeding to change entire genomes and selective enzymatic gene modification to make specific, controlled changes is equivalent to the difference between using a bulldozer to knock down trees or using a saw to remove only the branches overhanging your driveway. Either way, you clear the driveway.

I don’t give a crap who important and knowledgeable and experienced you are or tout yourself as being; you are not all knowing, and there are many people just as highly educated and experienced in the field as yourself, who disagree with your stand on vaccines as being the wonder magic of all times.

Please, provide an example of a person who is highly educated (PhD level) in a life science, who understands the biology of viruses and bacteria and how the immune system reacts to them, yet who advocates against vaccines. A kook or two notwithstanding, you will not find people in my field who advocate against fighting deadly diseases using the tools at our disposal.

But you, the One Who Knows It All, won’t admit that you are ever wrong.

No, I won't ever "admit" to being wrong when I make sure that everything I post regarding science and health is backed up by voluminous scientific research. Science is an objective discipline; in the hard sciences, the opinion of the scientist is irrelevant to the outcome of the experiment or study.

71 posted on 07/03/2018 3:22:49 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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