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GMO corn for LSD
Posted by ERV on November 8, 2012 Since the anti-science foo-foo hippies lost their bid to have all foods labeled ‘CONTAINS GMO WARBLEGARBLE! TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!’, a group of scientists at the Evil League of Evil have generated GMO corn for LSD. I guess as a gesture of good-will, or something. There. I hope everyones happy now. *whisperswhisperswhispers* What? *whisperswhisperswhispers* The GMO…
GMO plants and plant viruses vs people diseases
Posted by ERV on May 2, 2012 I mentioned this in my interview with Karl, and its a topic Im going to be speaking about at FreeOK2 this year– hell, its something Ive mentioned over and over and over and over on this blog: We arent Cave Men dancing around a fire chanting ‘OOGA BOOGA VIRUS BAD!’ We are modern humans who…
Homologous Recombinaltion Tiniker Award for the Prevention of Rice People aka ‘Oryza sapiens’
Posted by ERV on January 11, 2012 Last fall, a bizarre but interesting paper was published in Nature Cell Research: Exogenous plant MIR168a specifically targets mammalian LDLRAP1: evidence of cross-kingdom regulation by microRNA (subsequent correction after they duplicated images in their figures LOL!!!! Nature/Science, you so crazy!) What they suggest, is that when humans eat Oryza sativa (Asian rice), a microRNA highly…
Green terrorists destroy GM wheat
Posted by ERV on July 13, 2011 This is why we need science blogs like Tomorrows Table, Biofortified, GMO Pundit, and James and the Giant Corn**. “I’m sick of being treated like a dumb Mum who doesn’t understand the science. As far as I’m concerned, my family’s health is too important. GM wheat is not safe, and if the Government can’t protect…
Green our vaccines! Part IV
Posted by ERV on March 31, 2011 Every Spring, you can count on a handful of posts here at ERV on allergies. Ive got em. I hate em. But I recognize that in many ways, Im ‘lucky’ as far as allergies go. I only have to deal with them for a few months of the year, I can move somewhere else and…
“Is it local?”
Posted by ERV on February 27, 2011 Oklahomans, Mid-westerners/Southerners, we get made fun of a lot in pop-culture. Thats fine. It can be funny. Sokay. I saw Fred Amerson on Conan the other day, and I just caught up with his new show, ‘Portlandia‘. OMFG– ROFL!
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander: Anti-evolution and Anti-food technology
Posted by ERV on February 2, 2011 Anti-food-technology movement is just like the anti-evolution movement. Its got jack to do with the science. Its got everything to do with politics and personal ignorance. So lets all pretend to act shocked and surprised that an anti-GMO group has taken a page from anti-evolutionists on how to prevent children from learning science in schools:…
GMO chickens and herd immunity
Posted by ERV on January 19, 2011 HA! You remember a while ago, I wrote about how GMO papaya creates a population of ‘papaya’ that has herd immunity against papaya ringspot virus, thus is able to protect non-GMO papaya from the virus? Theyre trying to do a similar thing with chickens (any commercial bird, really– ducks, geese, turkeys, etc) and avian flu!…
‘Rockstars of Science’ hurt the cause of science education
Posted by ERV on December 17, 2010 Dr. Oz. Rockstar of Science. Major, massive, epic moron. Homeboy invites our Dr. Pam Ronald on his show to talk about GMOs. Great public science outreach opportunity. I was excited for her and for the field and for the public. But you know ‘crank magnetism’? Its never surprising when an anti-vaxer turns out to be…
GMO NOMS: Here fishy fishy fishy…
Posted by ERV on October 19, 2010 Anastasia over at Biofortified has a post up on the science behind the GMO salmon recently submitted to the FDA. Risk assessment and mitigation of AquAdvantage salmon Hehehe, its interesting to see where the luddites/technophobes got the ‘DER BE ANTIFREEZE GENES IN DEM DAR FISHIES!’ I thought they were just pulling that one straight out…