Ars Technica:
I don't like to post on politics, but it is sad to see natural resource management agencies, like the WI DNR, discounted and their valuable work reduced.
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Ars Technica:
I don't like to post on politics, but it is sad to see natural resource management agencies, like the WI DNR, discounted and their valuable work reduced.
John R. Ehrenfeld, writing on his blog:
Greed is the path to the dark side. Greed leads to exploitation. Exploitation leads to destruction. Destruction leads to suffering.
Blind we are, if creation of corporate ignorance we could not see. Not if anything to say about it I have.
Cultural Production of Ignorance
Michael Hiltzik, writing for the L.A. Times:
Others are now using the old tobacco playbook. The powerful then exploit our ignorance. The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.
Rachel Aviv, writing for the New Yorker:
The burden of proof should be on Syngenta. Shouldn’t a company manufacturing and selling a pesticide be civically responsible and prove that their product can be used safely and without substantial environmental effect or find an alternative? If your company is not innovative or competitive, then challenge the science with bogus issues, distract or misinform the public, attack scientists, and use your government connections to allow your company to continue to profit on a poisonous product. Today it is publicly accepted that large corporations should only care about profit, but why is it that we accept their unethical and criminal activities?
Jessa Gamble, reporting for The Last Word on Nothing:
Why is it that when societal troubles are large, the small-minded gain power and exploit common fears to push down scientific thought, often in the name of smaller government?
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