Comments on: Reason #5: The Grant http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/ Stronger plants, stronger science, and stronger communication. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Beekeeping http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1498 Beekeeping Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:49:56 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1498 I just found the blog informative and useful. Thanks for sharing it. The Biofortified deserves to be supported. I just found the blog informative and useful. Thanks for sharing it. The Biofortified deserves to be supported.

]]> By: Karl Haro von Mogel http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1365 Karl Haro von Mogel Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:49:21 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1365 Scotti, you're funny. I mention his two occupations, dance instructor and author, and you call it a pseudo-ad-hominem attack. What's that then? Is it improper in the exposition to say what someone's day-job is? (I shudder to think that someone might someday launch a "pseudo-ad-hominem" attack against me by labeling me as a "grad student and beekeeper" - like, oh no, I couldn't have someone know that I spend part of my time playing with insects.) As for Shiva, so that people know what post he is talking about, it is this one: http://www.biofortified.org/2009/11/terminator-2-my-mission-is-to-protect-you/ What's the pseudo-ad-hominem attack in that one? Criticism of statements and arguments is not an ad-hominem attack. Guess that's where the 'pseudo' comes in... As for your continued lame attempts to find some sort of contradiction in the name of the blog, I encourage you to read the wikipedia article on Biofortification. It is a real concept in plant breeding and genetic engineering, and the blog is named after it. Nothing Orwellian there. That's the doubleplus truth! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofortification By the way the edited email address I tried finally bounced back. Please uses a valid email address for commenting in the future. Scotti, you’re funny. I mention his two occupations, dance instructor and author, and you call it a pseudo-ad-hominem attack. What’s that then? Is it improper in the exposition to say what someone’s day-job is? (I shudder to think that someone might someday launch a “pseudo-ad-hominem” attack against me by labeling me as a “grad student and beekeeper” – like, oh no, I couldn’t have someone know that I spend part of my time playing with insects.)

As for Shiva, so that people know what post he is talking about, it is this one:
http://www.biofortified.org/2009/11/terminator-2-my-mission-is-to-protect-you/

What’s the pseudo-ad-hominem attack in that one? Criticism of statements and arguments is not an ad-hominem attack. Guess that’s where the ‘pseudo’ comes in…

As for your continued lame attempts to find some sort of contradiction in the name of the blog, I encourage you to read the wikipedia article on Biofortification. It is a real concept in plant breeding and genetic engineering, and the blog is named after it. Nothing Orwellian there. That’s the doubleplus truth!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofortification

By the way the edited email address I tried finally bounced back. Please uses a valid email address for commenting in the future.

]]> By: scotti http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1360 scotti Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:37:14 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1360 Strange, pseudo ad-hominem attacks on the GE precautionary principle activist-author J.Smith for being a 'dance instructor' ,LOL.And one here also about Dr Vandana Shiva. Strange, pseudo ad-hominem attacks on the GE precautionary principle activist-author J.Smith for being a ‘dance instructor’ ,LOL.And one here also about Dr Vandana Shiva.

]]> By: scotti http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1357 scotti Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:21:04 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1357 Karl : Two denials don't make a fact ,'life forms fortified' instead of trans-genetically engineered and in the Orwellian book '1984' there was the "double-speak" often a 'non sense' before the media 'spin' of the current day. Karl : Two denials don’t make a fact ,’life forms fortified’ instead of trans-genetically engineered and in the Orwellian book ’1984′ there was the “double-speak” often a ‘non sense’ before the media ‘spin’ of the current day.

]]> By: Karl Haro von Mogel http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1345 Karl Haro von Mogel Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:53:59 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1345 Scotti: No, and no. Scotti: No, and no.

]]> By: scotti http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1340 scotti Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:31:24 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1340 'Biofortified' sounds both euphemistic and Orwellian surely? ‘Biofortified’ sounds both euphemistic and Orwellian surely?

]]> By: Ewan Ross http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1169 Ewan Ross Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:10:22 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1169 Doesn't the whole eating blue thing completely fly in the face of fears about the spread of transgenes? Although I guess so long as the blue coloration is recessive, and relying on the clear fact that transgenes obviously prevent recombination, and are also obviously on the same chromosome as the pigmentation gene, that the idea makes at least as much sense as yogic flying. Doesn’t the whole eating blue thing completely fly in the face of fears about the spread of transgenes? Although I guess so long as the blue coloration is recessive, and relying on the clear fact that transgenes obviously prevent recombination, and are also obviously on the same chromosome as the pigmentation gene, that the idea makes at least as much sense as yogic flying.

]]> By: Karl Haro von Mogel http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1157 Karl Haro von Mogel Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:34:55 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1157 Yes I noticed that. It looks as if they may have thought that their nomination was their entry, I noticed them updating it before the close of entries. They may have sent a confused email to the administrators who then let them in. GE Free Ireland also showed up after the deadline. The changemakers site was so confusing that I can understand their confusion. I wonder if the Non-GMO Project will challenge their entry? They may both win the same thing anyway, so I don's suppose they will bother. Yes I noticed that. It looks as if they may have thought that their nomination was their entry, I noticed them updating it before the close of entries. They may have sent a confused email to the administrators who then let them in. GE Free Ireland also showed up after the deadline. The changemakers site was so confusing that I can understand their confusion. I wonder if the Non-GMO Project will challenge their entry? They may both win the same thing anyway, so I don’s suppose they will bother.

]]> By: Ivan http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1156 Ivan Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:21:52 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1156 The voting has already ended. I just left <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/yum_genetically_engineered_pla.php#comment-2030928" rel="nofollow">a comment on the pharyngula entry</a> about the suspicious nature of the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America entry. (It and another entry were created after the deadline.) The voting has already ended. I just left a comment on the pharyngula entry about the suspicious nature of the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America entry. (It and another entry were created after the deadline.)

]]> By: Karl Haro von Mogel http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-5-the-grant/#comment-1155 Karl Haro von Mogel Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:03:37 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=776#comment-1155 Have you heard bad things about that one? Have you heard bad things about that one?

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