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Risk Expert: GMOs Could Destroy the Global Ecosystem Washington’s Blog .

Posted on March 26, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog

Risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb predicted the 2008 financial crisis, by pointing out that commonly-used risk models were wrong.  Distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University, author of best-sellers The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, Taleb became financially independent after the crash of 1987, and wealthy during the 2008 financial crisis.

Now, Taleb is using his statistical risk acumen to take on genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Taleb’s conclusion:  GMOs could cause “an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet.”

Sound crazy?

Sure it does … but only because we don’t understand statistics, and so we have no handle on what’s risky and what’s not.

Taleb and his 2 co-authors write in a new draft paper:

For nature, the “ruin” is ecocide: an irreversible…

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I am posting this as an example of the myriad and oblique ways that threats to your freedoms and liberties are being eroded or trending in that direction.  You may or may not have followed the controversy regarding the sale and purchase of unpasteurized milk over the past year, I have only vaguely so.  Yet the trend and tone on the post referenced below is familiar and disturbing.  It relates to a lawsuit reportedly filed against FDA by a 501(c)(4) non-profit calling themselvesFarm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF.) Original Heidi Stevenson is here, excerpts follow.

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  via Who Owns Organic | Cornucopia Institute.