I have seen a lot of uneducated people here on the internet promoting dangerous woo that has the potential of doing real harm. Everything from suggesting that cancer sufferers should try Ozone therapy, to promoting the idea that HIV can’t be transmitted through heterosexual sex. But unbelievably, I have found something that makes these two examples pale in comparison. A man telling people to make their own homeopathic ebola

A lot of people have been asking me about my opinion on SciShow's latest video about GMOs. Overall, I was very pleased with the video, but it is far from perfect as Hank makes a rather large mistake. In this video, I try to correct that mistake and take the opportunity to talk about science communicators in general, and how they can sometimes be wrong about the subject they are covering.

According to Alliance for Natural Health half of all children will be autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT. Lets see were they got that number from.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a collection of a broad range of healing practices sharing common concepts that developed over thousands of years in what we know today as China. These practices evolved long before the development of science-based medicine. Although most people see TCM as complementary to orthodox medicine for those suffering relatively trivial problems, some market it toward those suffering from serious health conditions with the promise of helping with their symptoms or, in some cases, flat-out curing them. Although false hope peddling is commonplace here online, I wanted to see if the same opportunistic (almost predatory) approach to selling unproven medical products and services to the very ill is being practiced in the real world.

Earlier in the year, thanks to the wonderful people who have been supporting me thought patreon, I was able to take the train down to London to attend the annual March Against Monsanto (MAM) protest. Over the next few months, I plan to make a series of videos fact-checking some of the statements made by the protesters that allowed me to interview them, and those who gave speeches that day. I wanted to start on a high note with Liz O’Neil from GM-Freez who, quite frankly, was a cut above the rest.

Let’s once more critique some of the more convincing arguments made in a speech given at the March Against Monsanto protest in London earlier this year. This time, let’s fact-check a speech given by Haidee-Laure Giles of War on Want who, like others, was not just there to protest against the agrochemical and agricultural giant Monsanto – but genetic engineering in general.

In May 2015 a body within the World Health Organisation (WHO) called the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) declared that Glyphosate (the key ingredient in Roundup) was probably carcinogenic. In this video Myles is joined by James, fellow co-host of the podcast The League of Nerds, to critique the findings of the IARC.

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IS GLYPHOSATE PROBABLY CARCINOGENIC? PROBABLY NOT!

http://theleagueofnerds.co.uk/2015/09/08/does-roundup-give-you-cancer/

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Lancet press release

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(15)70134-8/abstract

2006 WHO report

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43624/1/9241665203_eng.pdf

Full Monograph

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-02.pdf

1985 EPA report part a

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/chemicalsearch/chemical/foia/cleared-reviews/reviews/103601/103601-183.pdf

Part b

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/chemicalsearch/chemical/foia/cleared-reviews/reviews/103601/103601-206.pdf

1986 EPA report

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/chemicalsearch/chemical/foia/cleared-reviews/reviews/103601/103601-211.pdf

Mcduffie et al

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/10/11/1155.long

Eriksson et al

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.23589/epdf

De Roos et al 2003

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1740618/pdf/v060p00e11.pdf

De Roos et al 2005

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253709/pdf/ehp0113-000049.pdf

Toxicologist statement regarding his paper and how the IARC misrepresented it

http://www.producer.com/daily/toxicologist-pans-un-glyphosate-report/

"Jellyfish in Space" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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