{"id":7306,"date":"2014-11-28T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T20:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2014-11-28T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T20:08:20","slug":"kiran-mazumdar-shaw-and-black-swan-author-nassim-nicholas-taleb-in-twitter-spat-over-gm-benefits-economic-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/kiran-mazumdar-shaw-and-black-swan-author-nassim-nicholas-taleb-in-twitter-spat-over-gm-benefits-economic-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Twitter spat over GM benefits &#8211; Economic Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the conversation veered towards innuendoes and name calling, the real issue about the benefitsrisks of GM crops went off the track. The main story which triggered this debate was about a rigorous meta analysis and one of the largest reviews on GM crops, which said that technology has wide-spread benefits, including increased crop yields, reduced pesticide use and profit for farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Taleb&#8217;s argument was that Shaw was confusing risk analysis and benefits, and was trying to hide the other impacts of GM technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/2014-11-18\/news\/56221829_1_kiran-mazumdar-shaw-gm-crops-gm-technology\">Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Twitter spat over GM benefits &#8211; Economic Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the conversation veered towards innuendoes and name calling, the real issue about the benefitsrisks of GM crops went off the track. The main story which triggered this debate was about a rigorous meta analysis and one of the largest reviews on GM crops, which said that technology has wide-spread benefits, including increased crop yields, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[791,848],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-gmos","tag-twitter-fight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7308,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}