The name of the company is Oxitec. They’re funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and they’ve created a method to decrease the population via genetically modified mosquitos, targeting indigenous folks who aren’t afforded the antidote.
It sounds like a horrifying sci-fi movie for the masses. It’s too diabolical to be true, naturally. The dengue virus GMO mosquitos, although ‘experimental’, couldn’t lead to this. Could it?
Up to 50 women per day are being infected in Puerto Rico. Fuck the warmer climes. Seek refuge in the north, where the air is brisk and the people are intelligent.
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Considering those morons are defaulting on all of their debt is it not time to bomb them? Not with a nuke or anything, just some hellfire and a couple bunker busters for show.
Or a nuke if that’s determined best.
It has been so dry and hot, it would not surprise me if the deadly virus has blown into northern territories x_x
All of this GMO stuff is just playing with fire. AI, self driving everything, engineered babies etc…. It will lead to very very bad things.
Not true, in the collective opinion of not just scientists, but Nobel laureates no less. There is a lot of misunderstanding about GMO, read up on it. Recently, over 100 Nobel laureates signed a letter admonishing Greenpeace for vilifying GMO, here’s that article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/29/more-than-100-nobel-laureates-take-on-greenpeace-over-gmo-stance/
Over 100!
BAAAAAAHHHH
The issue is that GMOs are a hugely diverse group of inventions.
Claimign “GMOs are safe” is like claiming “Chemicals are safe.”
In reality, *most* GMOs are probably safe, but they need to be approved on a case by case basis. For example, to just assume a plant that has been genetically modified to produce poisons that kill insects has no long term harmful affects on people is somewhere between blindly optimistic and delusional.
The plants do not produce poison. The plants are resistant to insecticides and/or herbicides. In other words, despite the instructions, you have a clear path for farmers to overuse the product – which is exactly what has been occurring.
as much credibility as Obomba Nobel’s peace prize
B&M only want 1/8 of the current population left standing.
What did I miss? Other than the click-bait headline conjecture “Are scientists to blame for Zika virus? “, I found not one explanation – or even a claim – on how this would work.
Here’s what the article says:
1) Zika is spread by mosquitoes
2) Oxitec recently released GM mosquitoes
3) Zika cases have recently increased
-> Oxitec mosquitoes (which can’t reporduce, BTW) caused the the Zika outbreak
Pure BS – you can do better, Fly.
The dinosaurs on Jurassic Park couldn’t reproduce either.
Has every Zika trade already been exploited and crowded? Drugs are obvious, but what about behaviour things like outdoor recreation?
If the cases in the US were more frequent, perhaps, but there is little evidence of any real Zika outbreak in the US – Americans just aren’t afraid enough for it to affect their lives. 0 cases for any mosquito-spread cases in US states (http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/united-states.html) If this hits Florida, then that’s a whole new ball game.
The main thing is that people are less likely to travel to Central and South America, so maybe the travel industry would be affected (cruise hsips, airlines), but I imagine that this is already baked in as well.
why is it that there is always a new virus right when the markets going to crash.
There is always something the news media can scare viewers/readers/listeners with, and keep them coming back for the “latest update”– regardless of what the market is doing.
Looking forward to the Brazil Olympic Games.
Bill and Melinda Gates have not created a method to decrease the population via genetically modified mosquitos. There is some small possibility that they may have done that by accident but they did not create such a thing intentionally– if at all. They are very well intentioned people who may have more money than sense. They have the same naive faith in GMOs that most poor and middle class people have– and apparently 100 Nobel Laureates have too.
Just because someone is wealthy doesn’t mean that they do everything they do on purpose. Sometimes wealthy people are as clueless about the unexpected consequences of what they’re doing, as anybody else is.
Btn, in a comment up above, is absolutely correct that claiming “GMOs are safe” is like claiming “Chemicals are safe”– since there are so many different GMOs now.
If the most broad threat to the human race is population growth, this pivots the conclusion. As cruel as it sounds, death of 5 billion people could save the fate of the human race. Of course no one wants to be one of the 5 billion.
I believe the Gates response to this point, is the possibility that someone saved by their efforts will develop something that saves the fate of the human race from everything else.
A grand conundrum…
Re: GM safety, the research hasn’t actually been done to show safety or lack of it, because the GM companies keep researchers from doing it.
http://earthopensource.org/gmomythsandtruths/sample-page/2-science-regulation/2-2-myth-independent-studies-confirm-gm-foods-crops-safe/
“The GM crop industry restricts access to its products by independent researchers, so their effects on human and animal health and the environment cannot be properly investigated. Agreements between GMO seed companies and some universities do not apply universally, are still restrictive, and crucially, are controlled by the industry. The research climate for independent researchers is unfavourable and there is no evidence that it is improving.”
And, from Scientific American:
Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research/