Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds to Sexual Misconduct Accusations

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64. I'm left, wasu, and very pro-science. If it can be

proven, I'll abandon my previous notions. Sure, anti-GMO is worldwide, and almost everyone feels a need to be very cautious about genetic interventions, certainly not just the anti-science types.

But all the studies into adverse effects of GMOs have definitively found all those allowed into production are no worse than the natural forms they were derived from, and often much better and extremely beneficial. That's the bottom line for me, until the next variety of product and studies. I was very cautious also, but can't argue with reality. Being pro-science, I of course do absolutely want every new variant carefully studied before introduction.

Wasu, there is also very strong overlap between these science-denying groups. That's also been measured and analyzed scientifically. The GMP and vaccine movements have to be lumped together, because they lump themselves by great overlap. Commonalities include tendencies to distrust and conspiracism that override exposure to scientifically proven facts, but many others just have a tendency to prefer knowledgeable sounding sites of those who reinforce their concerns, missing those where scientists report. For the most suspicious, of course, facts themselves become proof "they" control the lies people are told. That goes for all the other anti-science, tinfoil-hat schools of thought. Belief in one is the best predictor of belief in any of the others.

That's also been studied many times and ways, measured and analyzed. Nothing is certain, but I know that, when many scientific and other organizations around the world, in and out of government, including scientists and other staff who are earnestly trying to cure disease, end famine, etc., believe something, my best choice is to trust what they believe. Some cannot.