Cameron English: Is Biotechnology Just New Colonialism?
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Decolonizing the GMO Debate
Goadan: I want to stress just two basic points. When when people talk about de colonizing science, or decolonizing the g m o debate, they're starting with a theory called post colonialism. And their big concern is that where we're forcing our way of understanding the world, and we're forced our technology on them,. This is racist and this is unacceptable. They're basically challenging your ability to make a scientific argument because that's a western way of thinking. Both of them are really a word salad. That first one in the counter by cohen, if one of my students turned this in to me, i would have handed it back and said, try again. It
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