George Dvorsky's discussions

David Pearce asked me to post this comment on his behalf: Read more

Heh, I thought the same thing. Read more

Thanks, Erin. I've adjusted the article accordingly. Read more

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying my posts — and my feeble attempts at humor. Read more

Epic. Read more

My feelings exactly. It would never even occur to me to comment on an article that I hadn't read completely. Read more

Thank you! Read more

As a head's up, I'm preparing a companion article to this piece about whether or not we should eliminate pain from the human species. Stay tuned! Read more

Nice! Read more

thx fixed Read more

Thank you! Read more

Yes, thank you. Now fixed. Read more

People are definitely eager to jump all over Monsanto — and for good reason. Their reputation certainly precedes them in this case — something that likely led to the quick media response, if not the French government's response as well. Though Europeans tend to be more GM-averse than us North Americans. Read more

Agreed — and making matters worse was that they used short-lived rats — a biological model that doesn't even closely approximate the metabolic processes of long-lived humans. Read more

For sure — and another complaint of the study was its utter inability to explain causation. I would be very interested to hear the underlying biological mechanisms required to cause the rates of cancer they're describing. I'm not saying it's impossible — but it needs to be explained. Read more

That would be awesome. Read more

No need to apologize — I was looking but could not find. I've put this link in the article itself. Read more

Interesting, I'll see what I can pull together. Read more

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Ah, thank you for that. This means the researchers contradicted themselves later in the paper, where they clearly stated that men "are advantaged" in *all* scenarios. Read more