{"id":1300,"date":"2015-05-12T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2015-05-11T22:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T03:13:38","slug":"jm-mulet-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/05\/jm-mulet-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-talibans threaten Spanish scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jos\u00e9 Miguel Mulet<\/a><\/strong> is a biotechnology professor of at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is a science popularizer as well, and has written three scientifically sound books so far \u2014 one about so-called ‘natural’ products<\/a>, one about eating without fear<\/a> and the third one, just released this year, about scams-free medicine<\/a>, he’s one of us!<\/p>\n

This week he was on a tour in Argentina to promote his fear-free eating book, but this happened<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The talk at the National University of C\u00f3rdoba by the author of “Comer sin miedo<\/em>“, Jos\u00e9 Miguel Mulet, was canceled due to “threats” received by the Spanish scientist<\/strong> and popularizer.<\/p>\n

This was announced by one of the organizers of the event, scheduled at 7 pm in the Argentina Pavilion, according to eyewitnesses that recounted this for La Voz<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The spokesman read a letter from Mulet<\/a> in which he excused himself from attending due to “threats” adding, on his own, that these were “death threats”.<\/p>\n

Mulet talked about his book<\/a> with this newspaper a few days ago. He said: “People think that agrochemicals are things used by farmers because they are very bad and they want to affect us all. They do not realize that no one uses them for fun, on the contrary, the farmer would rather not to use them because they cost work and money but they\u00a0are needed for food production, because if they were\u00a0not used, pests would eat the crop”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Argentinian reader Federico Vergelli<\/strong> planned to attend Mulet’s talk. He recorded the more than prone to riot tempers<\/a> of the people who were waiting for Mulet at the Argentina Pavilion \u2014they were accusing Mulet of being a Monsanto sell-out\u2014:<\/p>\n