{"id":3236,"date":"2013-02-14T07:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T07:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2013-02-14T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T07:49:46","slug":"seven-sins-against-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/02\/14\/seven-sins-against-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Sins against Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/01\/09\/mark-lynass-gm-mea-culpa\">recently<\/a> about Mark Lynas's Damascene conversion to GM. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklynas.org\/2013\/02\/professor-nina-federoff-chair-of-the-aaas-board-qa-on-gmos\/#more-1125\">Here<\/a> he is again, testing out his position against the views of an eminent US scientist, Nina Fedoroff. \u00a0Oh that we all did the equivalent of that!<\/p>\n<p>And here, for a bit of balance, is the man in the white overalls himself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soilassociation.org\/motherearth\/viewarticle\/articleid\/4752\/the-pro-gm-lobbys-seven-sins-against-science\">Peter Melchett<\/a> on GM's seven sins against science. \u00a0Whatever road Lord M is on, it's not noticeably heading for Damascus. \u00a0I do wonder if his strong views on GMOs are at all amenable to alternative reason. \u00a0What, if anything, would persuade him to change his mind? \u00a0A question we all should be able to answer, at least to ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about Mark Lynas's Damascene conversion to GM. \u00a0Here he is again, testing out his position against the views of an eminent US scientist, Nina Fedoroff. \u00a0Oh that we all did the equivalent of that! And here, for...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}