posted by dennisn on June 12th, 2008 at 10:30PM

In fairness, it was just one person who fell for it. She was also female, and thus bound to be bad at science. The spoof was also very craftily written. Non-scientists cannot be expected to derive the dangers of something from first principles themselves -- instead, they look at the conclusions and risk assessments made by other professionals. That newspaper really hates that country's Green party -- it was a low-blow to suggest that Sue's incompetence implies the party's incompetence -- seeing as how this particular view of Sue's has absolutely nothing to do with the party's views. I'm sure there are legitimate reasons to worry about GM-creations -- although they belong in the field of science, not politics.

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posted by rick on June 12th, 2008 at 7:26PM

Is there a particular reason for bringing this up today? This article is about a New Zealand national party ... and it was written in 2001.

I only ask because I saw http://www.youtube.com/wa...ch?v=yi3erdgVVTw something http://www.dhmo.org/ similar on an email thread, also from today. :)

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