Stephan

“In the mid-1800s, antivaccine activists claimed that vaccines contained the “poison of adders, the blood, entrails, and excretions of bats, toads and suckling whelps.” When, a hundred and fifty years later, Jenny McCarthy said that she wanted the ether and anti-freeze removed from vaccines, she had carried forward the centuries-old tradition of claiming that vaccines contain ingredients that aren’t there.”
― Anonymous

“William Cline has projected that because of climate change the total agricultural capacity of Africa (excluding Egypt) will decline by roughly 19 percent between now and 2080 (Cline 2007). These projected climate change effects make the development of crops better able to tolerate drought an even more obvious imperative in Africa.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“At least fifteen studies have now shown that vitamin C doesn’t treat the common cold.”
― Paul A. Offit, Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

“An important early test of donor interest in sponsoring a GM DT crop project for Africa was provided in 2004-05, when Monsanto took the initiative and offered to share its newly discovered DT traits for humanitarian purposes.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa