The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is one the most prestigious mainstream groups in America. Quoting from its website:
"NAS is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars.
Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln
in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice
to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists
are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding
contributions to research. The NAS is committed to furthering science in
America, and its members are active contributors to the international
scientific community. Nearly 500 members of the NAS have won Nobel
Prizes, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, founded
in 1914, is today one of the premier international journals publishing
the results of original research."
You'd think the major media would dutifully parrot every NAS pronouncement. And with few exceptions, you'd be right.
Here is an exception. In May, the NAS issued a comprehensive report:
"Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects." The report's key finding takes in the entire period of US cultivation of GMO crops:
"The nation-wide data on maize, cotton, or soybean in the United
States do not show a significant signature of genetic-technology on the
rate of yield increase." -- Chapter 6, Page 66.
A less ponderous translation: the genetic engineering of crops hasn't resulted in rising output.
Boom.
Bigger yield was the whole selling point of GMOs.
That was the innovation that was going to save the world.
That was, and is, what the grotesque hype-artist, Bill Gates, has been trying to sell Africa.
Incompetent scientists, sold-out scientists, brain-damaged scientists,
scared scientists have all been assuring us that GMO crops produce much
higher yields, and they've been accusing critics of standing in the way
of progress for all, hatred of humanity, and ignorance of real science.
Suddenly, their darling of darlings, the National Academy of Sciences, is pelting them with pigeon droppings from above.
The horror.
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