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
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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
GMO label movement faces hurdles in Vermont
Advising people that their food contains food is somewhat counterproductive. It’s only real purpose is to enable activists and scare mongers to frighten consumers about, well, nothing, actually. Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology, Food labeling
Tagged fear mongers, food fears, irrational fears
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
Pascal Bruckner: The Ideology of Catastrophe
These are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us suffering if we refuse to listen to them. Continue reading
