{"id":614,"date":"2013-05-13T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/?p=614"},"modified":"2013-05-13T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:48:21","slug":"more-left-wing-anti-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/2013\/05\/13\/more-left-wing-anti-science\/","title":{"rendered":"More left-wing anti-science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have said this before and I will do so again: right-wing anti-science is annoying, left-wing anti-science is\u00a0<em>lethal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lomborg has piece out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/project_syndicate0\/2013\/02\/gm_food_golden_rice_will_save_millions_of_people_from_vitamin_a_deficiency.html?wpisrc=most_viral\">Slate about the attacks on Golden Rice<\/a>. \u00a0Currently, Vitamin A deficiency kills\u00a0<strong><\/strong>668,000 children a year. \u00a0GM rice fortified with vitamin A might be able to stop that. \u00a0Of course, the same people who are fine with <a href=\"https:\/\/sakai.duke.edu\/access\/content\/group\/fbb2357c-2105-40b8-b14b-819295259e75\/Documents\/Malaria%20Module\/Roberts_Manguin_Mouchet.pdf\">letting millions die from malaria<\/a>\u00a0are opposed to preventing these deaths. \u00a0As Greenpeace did when it convinced the starving Zambians that they could do without <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greenpeace#Genetically_modified_organisms_.28GMOs.29\">GM food<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have said this before and I will do so again: right-wing anti-science is annoying, left-wing anti-science is\u00a0lethal. Lomborg has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}