In which a statistic makes it from a writer, to the new york times, to a greenpeace blog, apparently without anyone noticing that it was mathematically impossible. I’m not exaggerating for effect.
1% of 20 is .2 (not 1.3 nor 1.6)
Posts Tagged ‘greenpeace’
How A Piece of Misinformation is Born
How misinformation can be born and spread using an example from a recent post to the greenpeace website about a court ruling regarding Bayer’s Liberty Link rice and how it could/will be misinterpreted
Sunday Links 12/6
MAT Kinase tells the story of some of a cool, weird, (and potentially deadly) fruit created using nothing but conventional breeding techniques in Plumalmodterine. Steve Savage has the conversation with a Greenpeace campaigner I’ve always wanted to have with the people who can constantly be found soliciting money for similar organizations on my walk to [...]
Greenpeace offers marker assisted breeding
Greenpeace offers plant scientists and plant breeders marker assisted breeding as an alternative to genetic engineering. Marker assisted breeding is an essential tool for crop improvement. Which is why they’ve been using it to help feed the world for years already!