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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 11:49 AM Nov 2012

Something really annoying about technophobes I have noticed... [View all]

Is that the woo-woos and technophobes ALWAYS conflate a technology with unscrupulous misuses of that technology. One sees this in discussions about nuclear energy ("nuclear weapons are bad, so nuclear energy must be banned!&quot , and with GMOs ("Monsanto is full of greedy assholes, so GMOs should be banned!!!&quot

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