Podcast Review: Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent

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Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent James Corbett's podcasts are always articulate, clear, linear, and never waste listener's time or distract by emotionalism. The information is documented and hard-hitting evidence. He doesn't get fooled by disinformation and I feel I can count on his expertise. Speaking to us from Japan, he has an excellent grasp of International politics.

This December 2013 Corbett Report podcast discusses how an international research team headed by Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini published a study in the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology: “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize,” proving negative effects on rats who consumed Roundup Ready corn. The biotech industry PR machine used social engineering to try to discredit the study.

"Amazingly, despite this concerted PR campaign to smear the Seralini study, seven “expert witnesses” were unable to rebut the study in a Filipino courtroom. In October, a Flipino court of appeals upheld a decision to ban BT eggplant from the country despite the efforts of seven industry witnesses attempting to rebut the substance of Seralini’s findings."

A similar study from Brazil showed damaging effects on mice from the core insecticide of Bt GMO.

Monsanto officials, lobbyists and consultants are ironically given government jobs as regulators of their company. For example, Linda Fisher was a senior EPA official and was appointed Monsanto’s Vice President of Government and Public Affairs. Michael Taylor, who was Monsanto’s Vice President for Public Policy became the FDA Commissioner.

Monsanto and similar biotech companies are able to thus engineer public opinion to accepting poisonous food and the Monsanto Protection Act which disallows Federal suites. Numerous countries are banning Monsanto and Genetically Modified foods, which tends to lead the US to cause them problems. The retaliation is fierce, and these countries are brave, though I've been told they don't necessarily actually regulate GMO crops as much as they claim after the bans.

It gives me hope though to see that there are intelligent, responsible people out there who care more about health than money and pressure from wealthy companies. But though people are fighting against Monsanto in the US, the behemoth prevails. This can be disheartening. Even the first step of just getting GMOs labeled has not been possible.

There wasn't time in this podcast, but I would like to see addressed some of the potential repercussions, based on historical paybacks, because progress will be hard as long as those threats stand. Our petitions to get laws passed are crippled by the very real chance of retribution by Monsanto/US government, which has no clear demarcation. What can be done to prevent attack and protect authorities who admit to the scientific proof and put a stop to pesticides and GMOs? Can the attackers be held responsible?

Perhaps the most likely way that could eventually happen would be for the public to realize, from listening to podcasts such as this, how regularly they are lied to by falsified science, how they can not trust publications and organizations in bed with the corporations they are publishing studies about. People must learn to think for themselves, looking more closely at the data and who its presentation is funded by.

What is it that prevents people from understanding that? If people can find ways to learn new cognitive patterns that prevent them from being as gullible, that would go a long way to putting a cap on this kind of corruption. The government doesn't want people to be able to think critically. What are you doing to keep your discrimination-muscles in shape?

People who care about these issues are demonized due to social engineering strategies funded by the Corporatocracy. How quickly do you judge people based on what authorities tell you to feel, before listening to what they have to say? How can we chance people's propensity to do that?