Status Updates From The Skeptics' Guide to the ...

“We’re using the internet to address the problems of the internet.”

“We certainly won’t be getting into our cars and scooting to the moon in twenty years.”

Probably not, but watch history prove this wrong and that is exactly what ends up happening. XD

“[Herbicide-tolerant crops] reduce the use of soil tillage, which is bad for the soil and releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into the environment.”

“Plants that are produced through hybridization, which can chaotically mix in hundreds of genes [...] do not require the same safety testing currently required of GMOs.”

“Genes can move between unrelated organisms. For example [...] cultivated sweet potatoes contain a transgene from a soil bacterium Agrobacterium), a completely natural transgene.”

You can cite this when some anti-GMO person claims unrelated species cannot take on genes from one another.

“Pessimism correlates with higher earnings, fewer marital problems, more effective communication, greater generosity, and less disappointment. It is apparently helpful to worry, at least to some extent.”

“The mind is not the brain, it is what the brain does—it is the brain in action.”