Hello, yesterday i took the time to see what's written about Grenpeace and
about Fumento.
I was disgusted about Fumento's article (not the gossip he conveyed but
the rest of his ideas), and guess what, i did not know he is the author of
'Science under siege' that i am currently ordering from the US becuase i
thought it was the opposite - i thought it was about Arpad Puztai type of
harassed scientists. I think i shall have to cancel the order, because i
believe that Fumento is just a carricature, and i a paradigm to AD HOMINEM
use of his name for everything (from now on i shall not say e.g.
'conspiracy' but Fumentism).
I am gradually coming to realize that there are two elements by which
these people present their arguments: First decrediting their opponents,
preferably selecting a few extreme examples.
Second, they pass what they wanted to say from the beginning, but after
the reader has been prejudiced in the first phase of the plan.
It is i believe now a pattern.
I cannot commend about the Greenpeace gossip that Fumento is conveying,
because he may very well be right. However this does not mean that he
mentioned really representative persons from Greenpeace, and that all
Greenpeace is like this. He just uses the worst moments of it (if so).
Also, i think that the whole mudding of Greenpeace in his article is pure
bullshit, and totally unfounded. It was his judgement, and it was not
supported by facts. I certainly disagree with the corporate character of
'recruiting campaigners' that i believe may be partly true (in the US? in
some Greenpeace managerial cycles?), but certainly Greenpeace has a solid
strong basis of people that were never recruited as campaigners.
The allegation that Greenpeace did all the GMO debate in the US in order
to raise funds to pay debts is unfounded and rediculous, especially
because:
1) European branches did exactly the same campaign but were not alleged to
be doing so in order to pay any debts
2) Many other organizations that apparently did not have debts did so in
the US and everywhere in the world, really.
This makes me thik that Fumento's 'article' was a bad taste propaganda of
the lowest level possible. As we say in Greek, he says Fumara (smoke
words), perhaps that's why he got his name.
Maria-Stella
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