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Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy
blackbeak writes "The BBC today characterized those who avoid GM foods as overly fussy, the very same day that the Wall Street Journal announced that picky eating may be recognized in the 2013 DSM as a psychiatric disorder. The DSM item refers to something completely different, though I'm sure many will confuse the two. Of course, this was not done without subterfuge; the BBC's author, Professor Jonathan Jones, in no way indicates his close ties to Monsanto. Point by point Jones regurgitates the same pro-GM arguments debunked numerous times all over the net for years, while serving up some stale half facts too."
The fact that some of the concerns are irrational does not, as you correctly say, mean that all the concerns are irrational.
But, the fact that all the concerns are irrational does, by definition, mean that all the concerns are irrational.
And that does make them similar to the 9/11 woo-woo nutters: none of the arguments make any sense; they are all hollow and meaningless. When you get to the end of the list of grievances, there was no reality in there anywhere.
Sure, GM food COULD be bad, and 9/11 COULD have been perpetrated by the US government. But, having looked at all the claims, they are all wrong in both cases. And thus, the valid comparison between them.