TED Aligns With Monsanto, Rejects Any Negative Talks About GMOs

Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead. Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can help prevent behavioral disorders in children. All these areas of discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.
This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012. Click here to view the letter.
In that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in "pseudoscience." Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are spreading "health hoaxes."
The letter also advises TEDx organizers to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics.

http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_ted_conferences_pseudoscience_gmo.html

urrgh
this is terrible.

Monsanto are Evil.

Fellas, I'd consider that source before jumping to any conclusions. Here's a hilarious perspective on Natural News.

Sorry about this story. It had been presented as news on another site. I didn't realize NaturalNews is a wacko site.

http://blog.tedx.com/post/37405280671/a-letter-to-the-tedx-community-on-tedx-and-bad-science

well if you read the TED blog it does seem a little overblown (it is reasonable vetting by TEDx)
Pretty sure what Natural News is taking exception to is

"Red flag topics

These are not “banned” topics by any means — but they are topics that tend to attract pseudo-scientists. If your speaker proposes a topic like this, use extra scrutiny. An expanding, depressing list follows:

Food science, including:
•GMO food and anti-GMO foodists
•Food as medicine, especially to treat a specific condition: Autism and ADHD, especially causes of and cures for autism

Because of the sad history of hoaxes with deadly consequences in the field of autism research, really look into the background of any autism-related talk. If you hear anything that sounds remotely like, “Vaccines are related to autism,” — RUN AWAY. Another non-legitimate argument: “We don’t know what works, so we have to try everything.” Pretty much all the time, this argument is designed to cause guilt in suffering parents so they’ll spend money on unproven treatments.
"

NaturalNews really pissed me off when they called the Sandy Hook child massacre a hoax just because some web sites related to the shooting were dated before the shooting by Google.

I didn't know about that. Oh, well, it gives us a conversation piece.