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Chipotle tried to appeal to the most ardent anti-GMO activists. Now it's paying the price.
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Tech skeptic Evgeny Morozov doesn't seem to think smartphone app users have any agency or free will.
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The author of the roundly criticized anti-GMO study appeared to know it wouldn't be well received, which is why he threatened to sue any vocal critic before the publication date.
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Anti-GMO activists are defending an extremely flawed study with all their bad faith rhetorical guns blazing.
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According to Jonathan Franzen, books are vital to the continuation of civilization, just as long as they're not in digital form because e-books will destroy the sum total of knowledge.
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Good regulation is based on facts and peer-reviewed studies, not scaremongering and chemophobia.
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Bill McKibben isn't worried that the Technological Singularity will never happen. He's worried it will usher in an era of fascist ubermensch who will destroy humanity as we know it.