Comments on: Book review – Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:36:09 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-94835Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:46:26 +0000/?p=10331#comment-94835[…] with our interpretation of nature. His short final chapter makes this explicit and takes aim at the appeal to nature fallacy peddled by lifestyle gurus and alternative medicine practitioners who falsely equate natural with […]

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]]>By: Book review – Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-87086Thu, 18 May 2023 11:19:54 +0000/?p=10331#comment-87086[…] I am sure this farmer means he avoids synthetic pesticides, but this kind of sloppy language has the appeal-to-nature fallacy written all over it. One notable gaffe is that Robinson supports the idea that modern food is less […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Curious World of Bacteria | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-86486Wed, 10 May 2023 11:05:42 +0000/?p=10331#comment-86486[…] and are used by a wide variety of organisms. Bacteria force you to reexamine your ideas of “natural” and “unnatural”. When it comes to chemistry, there are few things that bacteria cannot already do better than us. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-31794Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:19:04 +0000/?p=10331#comment-31794[…] about people’s irrational resistance to GMOs and have previously written about the appeal to nature fallacy. For me, horizontal gene transfer is proof positive that nature beat us at the game of transgenics […]

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]]>By: Book review – Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-24578Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:18:15 +0000/?p=10331#comment-24578[…] and modern, laboratory-based methods, as GMO opponents are often wont to do, is a good example of the appeal to nature fallacy. The difference is one of degree, not of kindShe similarly puts the record straight on cloning: […]

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]]>By: Book review – Sticking Together: The Science of Adhesion | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-13274Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:50:55 +0000/?p=10331#comment-13274[…] public sentiment, when the real risks are negligible. And he similarly takes issue with the appeal-to-nature fallacy, pointing out how “natural” is not always better. Though a clever marketing ploy, many […]

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-11444Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:03:38 +0000/?p=10331#comment-11444In reply to smellincoffee.

Thanks, as ever, for your interest! 🙂

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]]>By: smellincoffee/2020/07/20/book-review-natural-the-seductive-myth-of-natures-goodness/comment-page-1/#comment-11443Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:25:04 +0000/?p=10331#comment-11443This sounds like an altogether compelling read. Thank you as ever for a thoughtful review of it!

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