Comment Re:GMOs are toxic and will be shown to cause cance (Score 1) 396
A statement like GMOs cause cancer has little more information content than "life causes cancer" which is undoubtedly true but vacuous.
Which GMOs? All of them? Which genetic modification in particular? All of them? One of them? Some class of them, defined somehow?
At the level of generality you state it, you are contributing to the perception that GMO opponents are unscientific.
There are very serious concerns about GMOs and ecosystems. But overstating the case with a pseudo-science statement like "GMOs are toxic" just weakens the legitimate arguments against GMOs. Every genetic manipulation of every different organism species is a different case, and will have different effects.
It's very akin to changing a computer program. What you say is akin to saying "every change to MacOSX is toxic and will cause a worldwide computer virus epidemic". Well that is clearly an uninformed, and frankly, dumb statement, and it undermines the legitimate argument that there are some (relatively few) possible specific types of changes to MacOSX that would in fact cause a worldwide computer virus epidemic.