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Are GMOs bad for you?

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  • johnwelk
    johnwelk Posts: 396 Member
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    johnwelk wrote: »
    johnwelk wrote: »
    finny11122 wrote: »
    Well on mammal tests the subjects got cancer
    Citation?
    And humans are mammals
    So I guess it's safe for pregnant women to take thalidomide because it's safe in pregnant rodents?

    Or we shouldn't eat chocolate because it can kill a dog?

    Thalidomide is perfectly safe and good for morning sickness, so long as you get the correctly handed version. It's when you take the mirror image that things go south.
    Can you please elabotrate, not sure what you mean here. There is no safe version of Thalidomide for pregnant women.


    The R variant has a very safe pharmacovigilance profile.

    c58hduscm413.png

    In pregnant women?
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,970 Member
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    johnwelk wrote: »
    finny11122 wrote: »
    Well on mammal tests the subjects got cancer
    Citation?
    And humans are mammals
    So I guess it's safe for pregnant women to take thalidomide because it's safe in pregnant rodents?

    Or we shouldn't eat chocolate because it can kill a dog?

    Thalidomide is perfectly safe and good for morning sickness, so long as you get the correctly handed version. It's when you take the mirror image that things go south.

    To me, thalidomide is a warning. It was approved for human use before we understood it properly. Our eagerness to say "this is safe" resulted in great human suffering. How do we know we aren't making the same kind of mistake now?

    Thalidomide is a very poor example, given that the widespread havoc that this vaccine caused actually sparked the creation of the FDA and the stringent testing of drugs/vaccines that we currently have in place today.

    As long as something positive comes out of the next big mistake, it's all good.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    johnwelk wrote: »
    finny11122 wrote: »
    Well on mammal tests the subjects got cancer
    Citation?
    And humans are mammals
    So I guess it's safe for pregnant women to take thalidomide because it's safe in pregnant rodents?

    Or we shouldn't eat chocolate because it can kill a dog?

    Thalidomide is perfectly safe and good for morning sickness, so long as you get the correctly handed version. It's when you take the mirror image that things go south.

    To me, thalidomide is a warning. It was approved for human use before we understood it properly. Our eagerness to say "this is safe" resulted in great human suffering. How do we know we aren't making the same kind of mistake now?

    Thalidomide is a very poor example, given that the widespread havoc that this vaccine caused actually sparked the creation of the FDA and the stringent testing of drugs/vaccines that we currently have in place today.

    The FDA actually kept thalidomide from being approved in the US.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/science/frances-oldham-kelsey-fda-doctor-who-exposed-danger-of-thalidomide-dies-at-101.html?_r=0
  • Shawshankcan
    Shawshankcan Posts: 900 Member
    megpie41 wrote: »
    If gmo is 100% safe, why have so many counties ban it and ban the import of it?

    None economic tariffs - you don't want to block imports through taxation so you just say there is an issue with the product.

  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    megpie41 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »

    You are welcome to have your beliefs about the safety of GMO's. The only thing that I have seen questioned is what you are basing those beliefs on.

    Are you at all a religious person? Do you belive in God (or some other higher power)? If yes, prove scientifically that God (or other power) is real.

    Since not naming sources is making you look awesome

    I couldn't care less how you think I look. This is an Internet forum which means nothing. I have nothing to prove to you or anyone here. I do not have 1 source for all my information. It is a collective knowledge over the years of things I have read, people I have talked to and things I've seen...a collective general learned knowledge.

    The only thing I have done is stated my opinion. My opinion is not fact...it is an opinion. I'm not trying to sway you to take my side...I have simply said what I belive.

    I am not alone in believing GMO is harmful. If I were there would not be the GMO free certification because people wouldn't seek out out and buy it. Other countries wouldn't have them banned and quite frankly this thread wouldn't exist because there would be no question.

    You all think I'm crazy...and again I don't really care. Apparently I'm doing something right in terms of health and nutrution because I am fit, active, a healthy weight and in great health. Bring on the woo! :smile:

    If the debate forum is causing you this much stress, you can always block it so you don't see the posts when you view the recent discussions. I only mention it because you don't seem terribly interested in actually debating (no judgement here, I tend to stay off the debate board myself). If you don't want your opinion to be debated, then the debate board might not be for you.
  • megpie41
    megpie41 Posts: 164 Member
    megpie41 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »

    You are welcome to have your beliefs about the safety of GMO's. The only thing that I have seen questioned is what you are basing those beliefs on.

    Are you at all a religious person? Do you belive in God (or some other higher power)? If yes, prove scientifically that God (or other power) is real.

    Since not naming sources is making you look awesome

    I couldn't care less how you think I look. This is an Internet forum which means nothing. I have nothing to prove to you or anyone here. I do not have 1 source for all my information. It is a collective knowledge over the years of things I have read, people I have talked to and things I've seen...a collective general learned knowledge.

    The only thing I have done is stated my opinion. My opinion is not fact...it is an opinion. I'm not trying to sway you to take my side...I have simply said what I belive.

    I am not alone in believing GMO is harmful. If I were there would not be the GMO free certification because people wouldn't seek out out and buy it. Other countries wouldn't have them banned and quite frankly this thread wouldn't exist because there would be no question.

    You all think I'm crazy...and again I don't really care. Apparently I'm doing something right in terms of health and nutrution because I am fit, active, a healthy weight and in great health. Bring on the woo! :smile:

    If the debate forum is causing you this much stress, you can always block it so you don't see the posts when you view the recent discussions. I only mention it because you don't seem terribly interested in actually debating (no judgement here, I tend to stay off the debate board myself). If you don't want your opinion to be debated, then the debate board might not be for you.

    It doesn't cause me stress. Kind of comical really. It doesn't matter what board I post on, I get the same reaction...so it doesn't really matter. Thank you for the tip though.
    megpie41 wrote: »
    I have spoken to a number of horticulturist who outright say GMO are harmful.

    I for one believe you on this. Zero is a number after all.
    There's many members of the flat earth society all around the globe.

    All the sarcastic comments are pretty childish though.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    I read somewhere that the sector of the brain that retains facts is very close to the area where we store religious beliefs. Which might explain twitter.

    And Flat Earthers

    And Amway salespersons

    And extremism in all it's forms. Devoted, unshakeable followers.

    Of course, I can't find the gosh-darn article today, when citation rules. I did find this:

    Cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief


    http://www.pnas.org/content/106/12/4876.full#F4

    Interestingly, this study showed that when a participant disagrees with a particular statement, that is, their beliefs are challenged, all different parts of the brain light up.

    This coincides with my own experience when I try and shake someone from a firmly held but potentially damaging belief. I really have to take the time to get to the root of why they hung their hat on that particular belief. Knowing the why is the key to loosening the rigidity in the thinking. And it his highly individual. There has to be a different approach to each speaker.

    Which comes down to, who is really listening, on either side?
  • Heather4448
    Heather4448 Posts: 908 Member
    A sorta-kinda relative on FB has started following David avocado wolf and food Babe. Because of their anti-science monetized propaganda campaign, she has decided not to get a flu shot this year. She is a genuinely sweet person ...and also has sarcoidosis.
    Really doesn't have anything to do with this post, but it hurts my heart.
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,365 Member
    megpie41 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »

    You are welcome to have your beliefs about the safety of GMO's. The only thing that I have seen questioned is what you are basing those beliefs on.

    Are you at all a religious person? Do you belive in God (or some other higher power)? If yes, prove scientifically that God (or other power) is real.

    Are you then equating your distrust of GMO to a religious belief?
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,257 Member
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    johnwelk wrote: »
    johnwelk wrote: »
    finny11122 wrote: »
    Well on mammal tests the subjects got cancer
    Citation?
    And humans are mammals
    So I guess it's safe for pregnant women to take thalidomide because it's safe in pregnant rodents?

    Or we shouldn't eat chocolate because it can kill a dog?

    Thalidomide is perfectly safe and good for morning sickness, so long as you get the correctly handed version. It's when you take the mirror image that things go south.
    Can you please elabotrate, not sure what you mean here. There is no safe version of Thalidomide for pregnant women.


    The R variant has a very safe pharmacovigilance profile.

    c58hduscm413.png

    Link to study required.

    You can look up the product pharmacovigilance profile on the FDA or EMEA sites.

    What "study" would this be under? ...or are you just being argumentative at this point?

    There are several pharmaceutical and medical devices that fall under some manner of increased surveillance program - the FDA's Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for example. This does not mean that the product isn't safe for the approved indication, but means that there is a history of negative impact, very often a result from off-label usage.

    https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/rems/index.cfm
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,257 Member
    Not being argumentative just wondering in what world a pregnant woman would be given thalidomide.

    Thalidomide is an angiogenesis inhibitor (inhibits growth of new blood vessels) and indicated for use in the treatment/prevention of erythema nodosum leprosum. It is also be used in conjunction with dexamethasone for the treatment of multiple myelomas.

    Actually fewer risks in comparison to ACE inhibitors, but lacking the media hyperbole.

    The disastrous teratogenic effects of thalidomide were not known until the drug was used in off label indications for "morning sickness".
  • johnwelk
    johnwelk Posts: 396 Member
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    Not being argumentative just wondering in what world a pregnant woman would be given thalidomide.

    Thalidomide is an angiogenesis inhibitor (inhibits growth of new blood vessels) and indicated for use in the treatment/prevention of erythema nodosum leprosum. It is also be used in conjunction with dexamethasone for the treatment of multiple myelomas.

    Actually fewer risks in comparison to ACE inhibitors, but lacking the media hyperbole.

    The disastrous teratogenic effects of thalidomide were not known until the drug was used in off label indications for "morning sickness".

    But is it now safe in any form for pregnant women? Because that is what I was questioning Northcascades about. You then posted a meme implying I was wrong. So where is the study showing it's safe in any form for pregnant women?