so people who strongly identify with their female gender will be reinforced by palin

sam harries pov does not take into account that there are different types of people .. he thinks all brains are the same, from the get go, not understanding that the brain is a subset of consciousness

Mr. Silver’s arrogance was again evident when he did allow that some herbal remedies may be useful. Then he went on to say, especially if we can pull out the active ingredient. The “inert” ingredients in an herb might have the effect of decreasing unwanted side-effects. Something we may think is inert, may have a modifying effect that we just don’t have the tools to measure yet, or the modifying effect hasn’t been recognized yet.

After belittling organic food because of its origins, the author then says that organic food is no better than other food. Not all studies, but many studies do show that organic food is higher in nutrients. I’ll refer you to this website: http://www.organic-center.org/science.nutri.php. Genetically engineered food may be good or bad, depending on the food. We will all agree that tomatoes engineered to be firm so that they travel well, but are tasteless is one of the poorer products. Organic farmers do not want genetically engineered seed mixed in with their crops–true. There have been cases where that has happened and the maker of the genetically engineered seed has gone after a farmer where genetically altered seed showed up and demanded license fees for the seed (http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE3/Percy-Schmeiser-UTAustin10oct01.htm). So while Mr. Silver would like to see genetically altered food as being only a good thing, he is ignoring the financial advantages that these giant companies such as Monsanto stand to gain. Another issues with organic food does have to do with pesticides. Many people are sensitive to pesticides, and certainly for the people working in the fields they can’t be healthy.

I guess I was most disturbed by the idea that whatever man creates in the lab is going to be good. A lot is good and some is not. Certainly many life-saving drugs have been good, some have been bad. Some chemicals are good, and some, like DDT have been found to be harmful to more than just pests. We need to approach science with an open mind and a certain amount of healthy skepticism, like everything else.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/newsquotes.asp?print=y>

Thanks to Don Rice for sending me this link.

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