Mythology & Organic Food Advocates

[coach hale]

Featured in the Wall Street Journal Letters to editor:
by Professor Lee Silver

Are Organic Food Advocates in Thrall to Mythology Rather Than Science?
January 29, 2007

Your article "When Buying Organic Makes Sense -- and When It Doesn't" (Personal Journal, Jan. 16) was refreshing in its presentation of the quietly held view of many scientists that the touted virtues of organic food are exaggerated or non-existent. But you weren't sufficiently skeptical when you accepted the commonly held belief that organic farmers "eschew pesticides and other chemicals in an effort to protect the environment."
full article @ http://leemsilver.net/
click on Are Organic Food Advocates in Thrall to Mythology Rather Than Science? (Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2007)
It's about halfway down the homepage

Recently I had a similar letter featured in BBC's Knowledge Magazine

thanks,
Coach Hale

[Snarlla]

Here's a direct link to the letter. I couldn't see it on his home page.

http://wws-silvermacg4.princeton.edu.../200701WSJ.htm

[LiFeIsGoOd]

Hearing this stuff makes me so sad lol