Cliestogamy - flowers that pollinate themselves.

Study was done by watching YouTube videos.

Anybody else have phone camera that inverts the the image during processing? I have had a couple over the years.

Organic farming releases as much or more “poisons” than conventional. Just because those poisons “natural” doesn’t mean they are not harmful. Coppersulfate, pyrethrins, spinosad, neem etc are all indesciminate killers. Rotenone is a banned organic pesticide because it’s linked to Parkinson’s.

The 3/4 number gets a lot worse when you know we really don’t need to farm as much land as we do. If we stopped subsidizing idiotic farming practices and invested heavily in infrastructure, we only need to use 1/4 of the land we do. That includes feeding all the animals. If we migrated to a plant based diet it would be around 1/10th the current land usage.

GMO are a tool.

Some GMO’s are a good idea. Virus resistance for example was the first GMO I worked with in the 90’s. Papaya ringspotvirus is an excellent example.

Some GMO’s were a mediocre idea and an overall failure. Like all the efforts with SAMase for improving shelflife. Aka the GMO tomato.

Some GMO’s are downright stupid and irresponsible. Like the RR in corn, soy, alfalfa, etc. Its lead to a massive over-application of one chemistry. Creating resistant weeds in all production zones. Or dicamba resistance is soybeans that’s fucking up all the remaining trees, shrubs, and forbs.

Yeah, only half of that statement is correct. Organic is overall more damaging to the environment for most species. The lower yields = more acres needed for cultivation.

Yeah no. Those are tyvek suits that are used for pesticide application. To complete the outfit they need some nitrile gloves and a fitted respirator.

For pollen isolation there a whole bunch of different techniques depending on the species. None of them involve getting dressed in one of those uncomfortable monstrosities. I used gel caps when I bred cantaloupes and honeydews (the types used for medications). Slap one over the top of a pollinated flower and it keeps the pollinators away.

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esw058

He did a little massaging of the data.

Being a scientist today means you are “smart” in a very narrow and limited area of expertise. Outside of that area, shit goes downhill fast.

I can’t find the link but scientists and academics are thought to be heavily targeted with affinity fraud schemes because they rarely report when they are duped.

Growing up in Montana, we had a herd of around 20 mule deer on the bottom fields.

With a little bit of time you can easily tell them apart. There is quite a bit of variation in their appearance; head shape, body size and shape, ears, coloration, etc. When the bucks start growing their antlers every one is different as well.

Veiwers who have worked with a lot of PhD’s:

So they are going to make a extremely complicated evil plan only to be foiled by obvious oversight that only an idiot would miss.

When you work with high value goods long enough in any field you get desensitized to it. However you compartmentalize it in weird ways.

I think nothing of ordering $800K worth of stuff at work. Then I get home and refuse to pay $8 for a fancy coffee because it’s ridiculous.