Fructose and HFCS: Once again the "skeptics"* are wrong.

[villager]

50. Those are some good points.

I may not agree with all of them at the outset, but I like the analogy of glyphosates to antibiotics -- something that may actually be safe in certain doses/circumstances, but due to a vast overuse (due to a corporate imperative), is morphing into a pronounced hazard.

That is certainly an intriguing avenue for further discussion of the subject.

But I think the fact that companies have to skew toward short-term profit does, alas, put them increasingly on the "evil" side of the equation. See, for example, Exxon's covering-up of global warming/C02 research since the 1970's.

And my point about skeptics wasn't intended to mean that certain individuals on this website -- who I might disagree with on the community-friendliness of Monsanto, say -- can't themselves be skeptical in their own right of unchecked corporate (or government-toady-acting-for-corporate-interests) claims.

But I have yet to see any professional group which identifies itself as "skeptic" really go after everything worth being "skeptical" about. There is, in other words, a larger agenda there beyond "skepticism."

In any case, I do appreciate the actual discussion, and the laying aside of snark. Hopefully said discussion can continue in further threads, and areas where we disagree don't require the usual tiresome denunciations of the other poster, after all.