GMO panic caused global scientific ignorance with zero institutional accountability — a warning for AI panic
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-09-18
Blogger PessimistsArc revisits the GMO panic: fueled by anxious academics and attention-seeking public figures, it caused widespread scientific ignorance and worsened famine and malnutrition in the developing world — yet was never treated as a massive institutional failure. No reflection, no accountability, no lessons learned. The point is an implicit analogy to today's AI panic narratives.
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