When he was called to vote on Hawaii’s GMO ban, Greggor Ilagan wasn’t even sure what GMOs were – so he sought answers. In the process, he found himself struggling to an issue where popular beliefs and scientific evidence don’t align. “Every time he answered one question, it seemed, new ones arose. Popular opinion masqueraded convincingly as science, and the science itself was hard to grasp. People who spoke as experts lacked credentials, and GMO critics discounted those with credentials as being pawns of biotechnology companies. ‘It takes so much time to find out what’s true,’ he complained.”
Posted on: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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