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Natural News, lying again.
The Indian Farmer Suicide thing is a myth.
https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/files/2014/01/GMOsuicidemyth.pdf
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/04/17/3648423/india-farmer-suicide/
In fact, farmers around the world are killing themselves; usually at an even higher rate relative to the general populace.
This new study touted by NaturalNews is interesting, but they vastly overstate the importance of the results, and ignore important caveats, such as:
Their actual data is not that impressive either:
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The Bt cotton graphs are essentially random scatterings; drawing a line through that is rather unreasonable.
Don't go to Natural News for your information. The website is run by a nutter and espouses essentially every medical quackery and insane conspiracy it can get its hands on.
Thanks for the update.
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