I'd just like to address an overall sentiment. There is this idea that science screws up now and then and we all get hurt so it is ALWAYS good to be skeptical.
I think that is an equally dangerous thought. More people have died and gotten hurt from being skeptical to science than those who have died due to science.
When science suggested you should clean yourself before doing surgery, delivering babies etc, then Semmelweis got laughed at. People thought they should stick to what they "know".
People of science got burned for suggesting the earth orbited the sun.
A scientific approach determined that we should wear seat-belts in cars. Still a lot of people around the world being skeptical towards these expert suggestions die.
People die from not getting vaccines, because they believe more in their "feelings" then hard science.
The point is there is no alternative to science. If GMO was ever proved unsafe it would be through the scientific method, not by peopling "feeling" their way to an answer.
People like you are what's wrong with science. Get off the strawman soapbox.
The actual analogy of my position: "That washing thing is radical, let's trial it in a quarter of the cases based on early results and compare outcomes."
That's the perfectly rational response to a radical, but promising change. Not to switch all the ORs based on preliminary results.
Pretending that "we should roll out GMOs slowly because we're bad at systemic risk and this is important" is the same as "burn people for talking about heliocentric systems" is just nonsense zealotry from you. Which is why people are concerned about GMOs -- doubting zealots is good practice.
I think that is an equally dangerous thought. More people have died and gotten hurt from being skeptical to science than those who have died due to science.
When science suggested you should clean yourself before doing surgery, delivering babies etc, then Semmelweis got laughed at. People thought they should stick to what they "know".
People of science got burned for suggesting the earth orbited the sun.
A scientific approach determined that we should wear seat-belts in cars. Still a lot of people around the world being skeptical towards these expert suggestions die.
People die from not getting vaccines, because they believe more in their "feelings" then hard science.
The point is there is no alternative to science. If GMO was ever proved unsafe it would be through the scientific method, not by peopling "feeling" their way to an answer.