The recent speech that Mark Lynas gave fleshing out his evolution on environmental issues--specifically his conversion on GMOs--continues to ricochet around the web. It's a compelling story. If you're just catching up, here's a quick recap from Andy Revkin:
The arc of Lynas’s fascinating career is in some ways neatly encapsulated by two acts at Oxford — throwing a cream pie in the face of Bjorn Lomborg, the skeptic of eco-calamity, at a book signing there in 2001, yelling “pies for lies” (see photo below), and now echoing more than a few of Lomborg’s assertions in his lecture at the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday. In doing so, he has displayed an encouraging — and still rare — capacity to shed dogma in favor of data.
Not everyone has been so wowed, though. And I'm not referring to anti-GMO cranks like Vandana Shiva. Here's what paleoanthropologist John Hawks said:
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