02-27-2016, 05:14 AM
Good article in the New Yorker. I believe you can read this article (and up to six stories a month without a subscription).
The Zika virus is not the biggest problem we have.
Nor are GMO mosquitoes used to fight the disease.
Or Monsanto. Or the Gates Foundation.
It's conspiracy theories regarding the outbreak which impede attempts to fight the disease that are the greatest threat:
But conspiracy theories flow constantly across the Internet. An endless stream of anti-single-bullet theories seems to be a price we pay to have human knowledge at our fingertips. And conspiracy theories are part of American life.
At least one Zika conspiracy, by far the most damaging, may be hard to ignore. More than a third of the Americans surveyed in a poll, out this week, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center believe that genetically modified mosquitoes caused the spread of Zika. This is a particularly dangerous misapprehension, because, for now, controlling mosquitoes may be the only way we can hope to control Zika.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comm...zika-virus
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard
The Zika virus is not the biggest problem we have.
Nor are GMO mosquitoes used to fight the disease.
Or Monsanto. Or the Gates Foundation.
It's conspiracy theories regarding the outbreak which impede attempts to fight the disease that are the greatest threat:
But conspiracy theories flow constantly across the Internet. An endless stream of anti-single-bullet theories seems to be a price we pay to have human knowledge at our fingertips. And conspiracy theories are part of American life.
At least one Zika conspiracy, by far the most damaging, may be hard to ignore. More than a third of the Americans surveyed in a poll, out this week, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center believe that genetically modified mosquitoes caused the spread of Zika. This is a particularly dangerous misapprehension, because, for now, controlling mosquitoes may be the only way we can hope to control Zika.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comm...zika-virus
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves