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Most of it is positive, but nobody tunes into Skeptoid to hear me read love letters to myself.

You listen because you like to hear me make irreverent personal attacks on people I disagree with.

Far be it for me to fail to provide the content my listeners really want to hear, so let's get started.

Mikkel from Louisville, Kentucky was typical of the many people who criticized my episode

about genetically modified crops. I described one case where green piece activists pulled a publicity

stunt in a poverty-stricken region of the Philippines. They dressed up in biohazard suits

for the cameras not for any plausible safety reasons and destroyed a crop of corn

designed to thrive in the local conditions and feed more people.

The biotech companies are not out there to feed people. They are there to make as much money as

they can by monopolizing the food supply. I don't think you have really examined both sides of

the issue. Instead you focus on the media attention grabbing tactics of green piece so you can

dismiss them as a bunch of idiots. I'm very disappointed. In the case we were talking about green

piece deliberately spread misinformation that directly resulted in more starvation. Yet your

very disappointed that I didn't celebrate that and criticize the people who are feeding the

world. Simply because many of them are for-profit companies. You're welcome to celebrate either one

of those that you prefer or neither, but don't look to skeptoid to make that kind of value judgment.

You're perfectly free to feel that financial incentives are bad regardless of the results.

Other people might argue that financial incentives have always proven to be the most

effective catalyst to develop new technologies. You say I didn't examine both sides.

That's because I never give any time to either side in a value judgment issue. That's not what

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