Don Huber, controversial activist scientist promoting mysterious GMO superbug scare, has no data

[HuckleB]

http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/11/14/don-huber-controversial-activist-scientist-promoting-mysterious-gmo-superbug-scare-revealed-as-fraud/#.UoUzX_mkop9

"Don Huber, a retired scientist from the Plant Pathology faculty of Purdue University and a favorite on the anti-GMO lecture circuit, claims he discovered years ago a novel pathogenic microbe caused by agricultural genetic engineering–a GMO time bomb of sorts that is wreaking havoc on humans and animals. It not only causes plant disease, he alleges, but also spontaneous abortions at the rate of 20-50% in animals fed the “Roundup Ready” crops and can destroy our stomachs. He describes the organism as fungal but with a size in the range of a plant virus.

One problem: there is not a shred of empirical evidence to back up his scare claims, no peer reviewed paper, and he has refused to make this ‘explosive’ data available to any other scientist in the world to confirm–or debunk.

The mainstream consensus is that Huber has no data to back up his questionable claims–scientists at his former university have challenged him, writing that there is no evidence to support his allegations, but that’s not stopped activists from featuring Huber at events and promoting his patented scare talk on websites when there is no respectable scientists to engage him. In response to these wild claims, University of Florida scientist Kevin Folta has launched a petition at Change.org to demand that Huber either release his study material to the scientific community or stop misinformation.

Folta also attended an event in Tallahasee to listen to Huber speak, and all did not go very well for the activist scientist.

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What is he hiding? Hmm.

[HuckleB]

1. A Generous Offer to Dr. Huber -Turned Down

http://kfolta.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-generous-offer-to-dr-huber.html

[Berlum]

2. So you claim a critic is being occult about the massively OCCULT GMO, Inc. industry

Everybody's got something to hide, I guess.

Reckon I will just avoid the GMO shit until the industry decides to stop being OCCULT about all it's doings, and the single critic you cite comes, clean too.

Better safe than sorry. That's the Precautionary Principle -- not that the Occult GMO Mega-Industry, Inc. gives a shit about it.

[HuckleB]

4. If you're going to use the precautionary principle with GMOs, then you really shouldn't be eating.

Uh, you shouldn't be eating anything.

What this guy is doing is ugly and unethical. Why would you defend him?

[SidDithers]

5. "Everybody's got something to hide, I guess."...

Ain't that the truth.

Sid

[Dash87]

3. "They sure genetically modified my bank account!"

[Luminous Animal]

6. Don Huber may be a hack but I also wouldn't trust anything coming from Job Entine's

Genetic Literacy Project:

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/02/atrazine-syngengta-tyrone-hayes-jon-entine

Making of an Agribusiness Apologist.

[HuckleB]

9. It sad to see Mother Jones fail to follow the science.

That doesn't mean their red herring hack job is worth a dime.

Also, there's this called content. Debunk any of the content at Genetic Literacy Project. Just try, with actual science. Thanks.

[joeybee12]

7. Aren't you embarrassed to post such shit? Seriously, you should be ashamed...

A site run and financed by Monsanto...disgusting.

[HuckleB]

8. Aren't you embarrassed that you offered up something that has nothing to with the content of the OP,

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... and isn't even true?

Also, if you can't debunk the content of the website using actual science-based, peer reviewed evidence, well, what's your point again? Spend some time at the website, and tell me what's wrong with the content, other than it goes against the anti-science BS that is becoming all too prevalent at DU and elsewhere.

Seriously, Huber should be called out. Why would you post such a response? WOW!


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PS:

ARGUMENTUM AD MONSANTIUM
http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/11/08/argumentum-ad-monsantium/

[AverageJoe90]

10. Yep, I figured such.

Now I gotta wonder what the climate doomsters like McPherson, Wasdell & Anderson are hiding themselves.....

Good find, HuckleB. I'm no fan of GMOs, and there are some issues that need to be addressed, but as with so many other things(yes, including the TPP & climate change as well), Huber-style fearmongering hasn't exactly been helpful.

[HuckleB]

11. Indeed.

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BTW, here's a link to a petition to get him to release his "information."

http://www.change.org/petitions/those-concerned-about-food-safety-and-gmos-motivate-dr-don-huber-to-release-his-gmo-and-glyphosate-enriched-pathogen-to-the-scientific-community-so-it-may-be-sequenced-and-studied-before-it-harms-others?share_id=KTBbAXRKjR&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition

[Berlum]

12. Occultism in these mutant matters is despicable, for sure

But since the "source" in the OP is an odious corporate wanker, it may well be that Huber does in fact have the evidence that remains deliberately OCCULTED by the GMO Corps & their various & sundry PR sockpuppets.