ARTICLE: The Anti-GMO Doctors Behind False Monsanto Microcephaly Link

The following is an excerpt of an article by Forbes contributor, Kavin Senapathy, on the mosquito-borne Zika virus and accompanying conspiracy theories that a larvicide developed by Monsanto is the cause of microcephaly.

Haters gonna hate, players gonna play…conspiracy theorists gonna conspiracy theory? Attend an anti-vaccination or anti-genetic engineering event and you’ll encounter people who believe that vaccines cause autism, GMOs are a capitalist ploy to control our DNA and that the all-powerful “They” are spraying chemicals from airplanes to control our minds and weather.

With worldwide fear over mosquito-borne Zika virus and growing evidence suggesting that the infection is to blame for the surge of babies born with abnormally small heads (microcephaly) in Brazil and Argentina, it was only a matter of time before the conspiracy theories took hold.

The prediction came true on Monday, when pyriproxyfen topped trending news on Facebook, following an announcement from a group of Argentine doctors known as Médicos de Pueblos Fumigados, or Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, suggesting the larvicide is the cause of the microcephaly surge.

“Larvicide Manufactured By Monsanto Partner, Not Zika Virus, True Cause Of Brazil’s Microcephaly Outbreak: Doctors,” declared a Tech Times headline (the headline has since been changed). “Argentine physicians claim Monsanto larvicide is true cause of microcephaly,” read the title of an Examiner piece. But the doctors behind recent headlines linking larvicide pyriproxyfen to surges in microcephaly are less than unbiased, with a history of evidence-scarce assertions that agrochemicals and GMOs cause health and fertility problems.

Read the full article here.