{"id":179,"date":"2013-01-18T18:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T07:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-01-18T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T07:24:25","slug":"attack-of-the-frankenfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/01\/18\/attack-of-the-frankenfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the frankenfish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I expect that most of my readers will have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/stop_frankenfish_r\/?bGTEudb&amp;v=21092\">this petition <\/a>asking you to oppose the approval of a genetically-engineered salmon for consumption in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sign it by all means, if you so wish, but I most certainly will not. Nothing in the blurb convinces me that there is any real environmental danger from this approval, or that I am somehow in a better position to make that judgment than the US Food and Drug Administration. Instead, I see a lot of emotional rhetoric, with such words as &#8220;frankenfish&#8221;, in place of any plausible claims of fact that might persuade me. The whole thing seems like just another irrationalist appeal to an inviolable natural realm.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there&#8217;s a legitimate scientific case against the genetically modified salmon, and maybe not. But if this is the best that opponents can come up with, I have to suspect not. If any readers have better information, please share it. As always, I am open to argument and evidence. Right now, though, this campaign\u00a0looks awfully like bioluddite bullshit to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expect that most of my readers will have seen this petition asking you to oppose the approval of a genetically-engineered salmon for consumption in the United States. Sign it by all means, if you so wish, but I most certainly will not. Nothing in the blurb convinces me that there is any real environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19,37],"tags":[87,85,86],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioethics","category-debate","category-in-the-news","tag-frankenfood","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-gmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}