Live Chat on Tuesday at Noon EDT: The Truth about Genetically Modified Food

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Live Chat Today at Noon EDT: The Truth about Genetically Modified Food

GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are essential to feeding the world, proponents say. Tampering with nature is perilous, critics say. Who is right? Scientific American editor Michael Moyer will host a 30-minute conversation on Tuesday, August 20 at noon EDT, to explore this question with David H. Freedman, journalist and author of Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us–And How to Know When Not to Trust Them (Little, Brown and Company, 2010). Join in the Google+ Hangout and let us know what questions you’d like us to address, or post comments below. For more on this topic, see our September issue on Food, on newsstands later this week. Check back on Tuesday morning for links to our entire September issue on the Science of Food.

The YouTube stream of the live chat will appear here at noon EDT. Questions may also be posted to Scientific American‘s Channel on YouTube.

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