L & S C30Y Lecture 15: Lecture 15
9 Mar 2017
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3/9/2017 2:10:00 pm: our desire to confirm what we believe also emerges in what social scientists call confirmation bias. We seek out people, mass media, and other information sources that agree with what we believe. And we tend to filter out information that conflicts with what we believe. People can also hear disconfirming information and respond by becoming more entrenched in their positions. It becomes difficult to find a way to change your mind. Strain of anti-scientism among both liberals and conservatives: the tragedy is that the leaders of the anti-gmo crowd are anti- truth. Genetically engineered crops: the progression: tier 1: domesticated wild plants (corn, canola, soy bean, rice, etc. , 2. Transgenic (1 transgene: herbicide resistance, protection against pests, 5. The data so far: neither the tomato nor corn that one buys at whole paycheck are natural in any meaningful sense of the word (they do not occur in nature).
