Who or what will cause the 2012 apocalypse? This is the question posed by the website 2012apocalypse.net. “super volcanos? pestilence and disease? asteroids? comets? antichrist? global warming? nuclear war?” the site’s authors are impressively open-minded about the cause of the catastrophe that is coming at 11:11 pm on december 21 this year. but they have no doubt it will happen. after all, not only does the Mayan Long Count calendar end that day, but “the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years.” Case closed: Sell your possessions and live for today. Continue reading
Tag Archives: baseless fears
Battle over genetically engineered food heading to voters
“A fight over genetically engineered foods has been heating up in the nation’s grocery aisles. Now it’s headed for the ballot box.“
Quite a propaganda coup for organic food scammers and shameless anti-capitalist activists. Continue reading
Report: Smart meters are bad for your health
For the tinfoil undies brigade Continue reading
Survey: Most see no need for biotech info on food labels
A new survey shows very few Americans cite biotechnology as an information need on food labels. Neither are most consumers specifically trying to avoid purchasing foods with biotech ingredients. That’s good news for the U.S. crop industry, where bioengineered varieties dominate farm fields. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food labeling, Organic food
Tagged baseless fears, Big Organic, irrational fears
How Apocalyptic Thinking Prevents Us from Taking Political Action
Takes ‘em a long time to get around to it but global warming is really, truely ruely gonna getcha, unlike all that other unlikely stuff Continue reading
The real reason for the GMO labeling push, greedy myth-mongers
As always, follow the money: “Organic Farmers Hope for Boost With Rivals’ Labels” Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Organic food
Tagged baseless fears, fear mongers, scare campaigns
Mike Lemonick: Natural Gas Our New Savior? Not So Fast . . .
Apparently it’s a big problem that we can’t be “saved” from imaginary threats. We don’t view the world that way, recognizing that the real threats to humanity and the environment are basically misanthropes and environmentalists (was that redundant?) Continue reading
