Tanath on As a skeptic should my default position be apprehensiveness towards a given GMO until proven safe or openness until proven unsafe? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"When it comes to things that can't easily be proven impossible with logic it comes down to evidence, and burden of proof is on the one making the claim. There's no need to claim those things impossible. > Besides that (and corrupted is a pretty strong word, language and meanings change over time, it isn't corruption it's merely different) Fair enough, I consider it corruption because it subverts the meaning and usefulness of the terms. > you can't prove a negative. You most certainly can. Do what I said in the original comment and look it up. Every proof entails proof of a negative in fact. > No experiment (even the ridiculous example I used) could prove that a GMO carrot proved no (additional) danger to every human compared to a regular carrot. Doesn't have to. First of all, that's not a reasonable definition of "safe". Even if you consider that some unknown could come along and render the GMO carrot unsafe, could one not blame the new unknown rather than the carrot? It takes..." - Tanath