Nobel Award Winners ask Greenpeace to stand on scientific consensus, instead of against it [View all]

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A letter signed by over 100 scholars attempts to get Greenpeace to re-think opposition to genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).
https://storify.com/mem_somerville/nobel-award-winners-ask-greenpeace-to-stand-on-sci

So, in the past, what has Greenpeace thought about the opinions of Nobel laureates? Hmm....

(A Greenpeace tweet):

When #Nobel laureates say humans need to live more sustainably, we should probably listen, shouldn’t we? http://grnpc.org/IgHcH

So Greenpeace in the past celebrated Peter Doherty, Brian Schmidt, Ada Yonath and asked us to hear them....Hmm. Ok, so the Nobelists didn't ruin treasured historical sites, and they didn't climb Greenpeace's headquarters. But they seem to have been heard (by the world, if not by Greenpeace). I wanted to keep a running list of the pieces about this story.

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This Reuters piece at CBC is one of my favorites. From the piece: "Greenpeace officials called the event a publicity stunt." Yeah, Greenpeace is so opposed to publicity stunts. My ass. I was noticing that none of the coverage had the bogus syringe-tomato images, but many of them used photos of past Greenpeace publicity stunts--because there are so many to choose from.

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Greenpeace jumped the shark years ago. Will those who remain work to right this ship, finally?