Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

NRaleighLiberal

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4. It's an interesting one. I've got a PhD in chemistry (Ivy League).

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:43 PM

Mar 2015

I worked in big pharma for 25 years. And I garden (and my first book came out a few months ago). So I sit squarely in the middle of so many current controversies. Suffice to say I've seen both the good and not so good of what big pharma does - and can do. Ditto GMO (though I prefer to use GEO - engineered, not modified). And I use (and do not use) that which I feel comfortable with in gardening.

I see most things in terms of grey and most things needing good thought and analysis. That is what we end up sorely lacking in the black/white, quick soundbite, current world when controversial topics become so emotional, yet are covered at barely skin deep.

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It's an interesting one. I've got a PhD in chemistry (Ivy League). NRaleighLiberal Mar 2015 #4

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