On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:23:04 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Tim Streater
saying something like:

Mmm. There must be a proper name for the sort of argument based on the
"well the sky could fall down" approach, which cannot be countered
because, well, the sky *could* fall down.

Simple caution would cover it.
I must admit, I was a bit anti GM, but it's been around a while and
nobody's died. I don't for one second believe the researchers knew what
they were doing for every instance, that's a load of total ********, but
they were quite careful when pushing the envelope and for that I'm quite
grateful.

There were rumours that some GM crops caused the death of butterfly
caterpillars. I don't know whether it was confirmed.
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