- Posted on someone’s wall on Facebook.
No source is given, but I guess you don’t need one when the evidence confirms what you’ve known all along.
Many of the facts are heavily framed or misleading. Should we expect a substantial fraction of productive illegals to be picking crops? Really? Is the $2.36 trillion coming from using illegals? Of course it isn’t, so why is it being mentioned?
It was set alongside the “cutting in line” analogy. There is no line for low skilled immigrants to cut. They are outright banned from coming here. - A very good overview in Slate on the distorting of the science of GMOs.
- And some more from the Umlaut on GMOs: GMO Labeling is Bad Science and Good Politics.
Some people think that I just don’t read enough of the literature from the other side of the GMO debate. But as I’ve said before: every argument I’ve ever heard or read against GMOs was just plain fake science, appealed to the perfection of nature (as if she took such great care of us), appealed to unknowns (because how do we know the long term effects?), or warned against people making money off of it (as if people never make money helping other people). - Tyler Cowen on How High is the U.S. Poverty Rate?
- People do not Poison Halloween Candy.
