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Perception vs Reality: How Can Science Help to Dispel Common Agricultural Misconceptions?

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* 1. Full Name

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* 2. IPM Number

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* 3. Province

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* 4. Traditional breeding of plants changes thousands of genes, often with unknown effects on the outcome of the plant.

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* 5. Genetic engineering of crop plants has shown to cause major harm to human health and the environment.

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* 6. Within the hierarchy of scientific evidence, meta-analyses and systematic reviews are viewed as the best cumulative evidence to support a certain topic.

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* 7. Organic foods are healthier because they are more nutritious than conventionally grown foods.

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* 8. Just because a chemical is considered ‘organic’ it does not mean it is any safer or less toxic than a synthetic chemical.

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* 9. Caffeine is far less toxic than the fungicide chlorothalonil.

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* 10. Glyphosate is one of the only probable carcinogens humans may be exposed to in the environment.

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* 11. Correlation can equate to causation if the two data sets match up very closely.

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* 12. Pesticides and medicine are often derived from similar or the same classes of chemistry

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* 13. Golf courses have been found to have higher ecological value in a majority of comparisons against other land uses.

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