MUMBAI: Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's tweet about a new study on the benefits of genetically modified (GM) technology has snowballed into a big twittercontroversy in recent times.

Her critic is none other than Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the best-selling 'Black Swan', who tore into Shaw for defending GM crops, besides claiming that she is a paid propagandist.

Shaw, with over lakh followers on Twitter, is an active participant on the social media site when it comes to issues of science and medicine. "Ms Kiran Shaw is conflating benefits and risk, would flunk undergrad risk 101," tweeted Taleb to his 83,000 followers.............click for more

Source: EconomicTimes

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