Jane Goodall’s Troubling, Error-Filled New Book, ‘Seeds of Hope’

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14. Based on this, and her unabashed promotion of a woo book...

I've lost all respect for Jane Goodall.

Jeffrey Smith is a notorious anti-GMO hysteric, and his credentials?

"Smith, whose actual education consist of business studies at the rather spectacularly unaccredited Maharishi International University, founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and who has enjoyed a career advocating yogic flying, has even written two books on GMO foods, Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, which does not appear to be too careful about documentation (to put it diplomatically). He also runs a “think tank”, The Institute for Responsible Technology."

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Yet Jane Goodall has nothing but praise for this hysteric's bullshit.

"The problem is that people with real authority have actually taken Smith’s claims seriously. Famed British primatologist Jane Goodall, who has left any aspirations of respectability on these matters behind a while ago yet continues to enjoy some respect in certain circles, generously blurbed Smith’s book (“If you care about your health and that of your children, buy this book, become aware of the potential problems, and take action”) and cited Smith’s “research” extensively in her own Seeds of Hope (she also recommended a book on GM by Maharishi Institute executive vice president Steven M. Druker, who – surprisingly enough –has no scientific training either)."

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/09/1157-jeffery-smith.html