A Rebuttal to Mark Lynas’ GMO Reversal
        
            By Jason Mark, 
                Earth Island Journal
             | 01. 11. 2013
        
                    
                                    
                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                            
                              
    
  
  
    
  
          
  
      
    
            If you want to get your name splattered all over the web, there’s nothing like recanting your once strongly held beliefs. Give a big 
mea culpa speech telling the world how wrong you have been, and you’ll get far more attention for your auto-rebuttal than you ever received for your original ideas. When it comes to ideological U-turns the media are like moths to a flame. (Never mind that, as Whitman said, “consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”)
In this case, I’m talking about the recent “big news” that one-time GMO critic 
Mark Lynas — a Brit who at least once took direct action to rip GM trial crops out of the ground — has come out as a supporter of the technology he once abhorred. You can find write-ups about it from 
Andrew Revkin and 
Slate and the 
LA Times and 
The New Yorker’s Michael Specter. I even got an email from the folks at the No on 37 campaign (the people who successfully fought a GMO labeling referendum in California) trumpeting the news.
Here’s the opening...
 
 
  
 
    
    
  
   
                        
                                                                                
                 
                                                    
                            
                                  
    
  
  
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