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The current contentious GMO debate focuses on the health impacts of foods that have been genetically engineered on purpose for taste/texture, resistance to pests/disease, and other qualities.

"The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades—and it simply didn't work in humans."

This statement made by Richard Klausner, M.D., former director of the National Cancer Institute, to the Los Angeles Times (Cimons 1998), is a statement that applies equally to many other common diseases. A decade ago, researchers reported on the existence of 195 published methods that prevented or delayed the development of type 2 diabetes in mice (Roep et al 2004). Yet none of these "breakthroughs" ever translated to human medicine.

My mother always told us that watching too many episodes of The Three Stooges would rot our brains.  As it turns out, she may have been on to something.

TV Time Cuts Toddler Development

When I was growing up my mother always told us that watching too many episodes of "The Three Stooges" would rot our brains.  Of course she had no solid proof of this.  But as it turns out, she may have been on to something.