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Originally Posted by Bagor
Yes he does by the very criteria you presented.
Science stories are about the evidence and the process of science – about finding the best current answer. Science articles need to reflect that.
He deliberately ignored the best current answer and did exactly what the very next paragraph in your article suggested.
As soon as you put a pseudoscientist up against a genuine and respected scientist, you have elevated the pseudoscientist to a stature they likely do not deserve. You have framed the story in a very deceptive way that does not reflect the reality.
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Addressing this, I don't think I deliberately ignored the best answer.
I read the Natural News article, which as far as I can tell is not peer-reviewed in any sense, and looked at all the references to articles which were peer reviewed and found nothing in any of those references which suggested to me that the claim that GMO crops being linked to the rise in RoundUp resistant weeds was made by anyone other than the article author, and not by anyone who backed it up with an actual study.
So I will admit, I put far less weight into the answer that had the least backing by the scientific community, which caused me to ignore it when I was giving a short answer to TBQH.