107 Nobel Laureates Sign Letter Blasting Greenpeace Over Gmos

[Coss]

More than 100 Nobel laureates have signed a letter urging Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

 

The letter asks Greenpeace to cease its efforts to block introduction of a genetically engineered strain of rice that supporters say could reduce Vitamin-A deficiencies causing blindness and death in children in the developing world.

 

"We urge Greenpeace and its supporters to re-examine the experience of farmers and consumers worldwide with crops and foods improved through biotechnology, recognize the findings of authoritative scientific bodies and regulatory agencies, and abandon their campaign against 'GMOs' in general and Golden Rice in particular," the letter states.

 

The letter campaign was organized by Richard Roberts, chief scientific officer of New England Biolabs and, with Phillip Sharp, the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of genetic sequences known as introns.

 

The campaign has a website, supportprecisionagriculture.org, that includes a running list of the signatories, and the group plans to hold a news conference Thursday morning at the National Press Club in Washington.

 

“We’re scientists. We understand the logic of science. It's easy to see what Greenpeace is doing is damaging and is anti-science," Roberts told The Washington Post.

 

“Greenpeace initially, and then some of their allies, deliberately went out of their way to scare people. It was a way for them to raise money for their cause."

 

Roberts said he endorses many other activities of Greenpeace, and said he hopes the group, after reading the letter, would "admit that this is an issue that they got wrong and focus on the stuff that they do well."

 

 

more here = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/29/more-than-100-nobel-laureates-take-on-greenpeace-over-gmo-stance/

 

Coss' note: They believe scientists, when it comes to Global Warming, but not GMOs. Something to ponder. I've always thought that most of Greenpeace's goals are admirable, particularly saving Whales and other organisms, protesting against pollution etc etc. But GMOs they've got wrong, if they want the public to keep funding them, they'd better do a mea culpa.

[pasathai1]

if greenpeace did not stir things up every so often, they would not get any donations

 

I bet their executives don't drive second hand cars

[Coss]

It's all like the U.N. these days, people politicking for positions, so they can have careers...

[Flashermac]

I did some part-time work for the UN back in the 1980s. My impression was that it was a huge corrupt bureaucracy. As a friend at the UN put it to me, it was the place rulers of third world dictatorships sent their inept relatives to get high paying jobs.

 

p.s. I also worked for a while for the Australian embassy. I guess I did get around some.