Saturday 18 May 2013

GM crops add little to yields

Geoffrey Lean writes that GM crops are not at the fore-front of increases in crop yields. Traditional methods involving cross pollination are far more successful.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/geneticmodification/10064255/The-inconvenient-truth-about-GM.html

‘Induction over the history of science suggests that the best theories we have today will prove more or less untrue at the latest by tomorrow afternoon.’ Fodor, J. ‘Why Pigs don’t have wings,’ London Review of Books, 18th Oct 2007