{"id":1409,"date":"2015-02-27T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danthropology\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2015-03-04T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:40:27","slug":"bill-nye-says-science-changed-his-anti-gmo-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danthropology\/2015\/02\/bill-nye-says-science-changed-his-anti-gmo-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye says science changed his anti-GMO views"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Backstage at Real Time with Bill Maher science communicator Bill Nye shows the world\u00a0how real science is done.<\/p>\n

After publishing in his book, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that he is critical of GMO\u2019s<\/a> he spent time with scientists in the field and revised his views and says he will be revising his book for the second edition due out in the fall of 2015.<\/p>\n

Nye said he is very excited about revising that chapter and telling people about his new view saying, \u201cwhen you\u2019re in love you want to tell the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Nye may have never actually been fully in the \u201canti\u201d camp on GMO\u2019s he did offer some pretty strong arguments for the anti-GMO movement claiming many of the same arguments drove his views such as five years not being enough time for testing or that companies are asking the government for funding; what amounts to the \u201cfollow the money\u201d argument.<\/p>\n

Nye did not respond to a few debate requests<\/a> on the subject, most notably by professor Kevin Folta a horticulturalist at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, when not responding to these requests he did not sit by idly ignoring the massive amounts of evidence proving that GMO\u2019s are safe.<\/p>\n

Nye proved that he is true to his word and that\u00a0his mind can in fact be changed with one thing; evidence.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to the revised version.<\/p>\n