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Due 20 April - Real life situation and central Knowledge Issue The use of GM (geneticllymodified) food Can we be certain that we can trust the research of GM (genetically modified) food? Due 10 May - Knowledge issues and different perspectives
 * 1.** **What is the real life situation under consideration?**
 * 2. What is the TOK knowledge issue that will be the focus of your presentation? (This must be expressed as a question.)**
 * **Identify (sub)knowledge issues related to the KI which is the focus of your presentation.**
 * - Will the background of scientists (whom he served for) affect the truth of GM food?
 * - How will the technological and academical level of the scientists and research institutions affect the reliabiltiy of the opinion?
 * - Will their reseach method and logical deduction rigorous enough to support their conculsion?
 * **Explain how the knowledge issue(s) relate to the topic you have chosen.**
 * - Scientists background can be use to test if the opinion is subjective or objective, if he is working for the GM food industry, then his opinion will tend to be tendentious.
 * - Technology and academical is based on reliability and validity, so bad technolgy lead to poor reliability.
 * - If there is any logial fallacy, or any contradiction, then the conculsion is more likely to be wrong.
 * **Identify at least two perspectives of different knowers.**
 * - WHO (World Health Organisation) - They are an organisation outside of any government control, so their research will be more reliable and not biased, they are also a world organisation, so it is hard for them to hold a false research
 * - FAD (Food and Drug Administration) - They are an organisation working for the U.S. government, even though the technology is advanced, however the result from one country can be less reliable
 * -  Hammond B, Dudek R, Lemen J -  These three scientists overthrow conclusion made old scientific conclusion made 5 years ago, this means that the research not reach a common accept conclusion
 * **Illustrate your points with supporting quotes.**
 * "It is clear that modern technologies must be thoroughly evaluated if they are to constitute a true improvement in the way food is produced. Such evaluations must be holistic and all-inclusive, and cannot stop at the previously separated, non-coherent systems of evaluation focusing solely on human health or environmental effects in isolation. " - WHO
 * "Further, even though this overly narrow testing has frequently yielded problematic results (as discussed in Section 3), the regulators have routinely ignored them. They have also disregarded glaring weaknesses in the way many of the tests were conducted" - Steven M. Druker
 * "In 2010 three scientists published a statistical re-analysis of three feeding trials that had previously been published by others as establishing the safety of genetically modified corn.The new article claimed that their statistics instead showed that the three patented crops developed and owned by Monsanto cause liver, kidney, and heart damage in mammals.A previous re-analysis of part of this data by the same group of scientists was assessed by a panel of independent toxicologists in a study funded by Monsanto and published in the journal //Food and chemical toxicology//, the reviewers reported that the study was statistically flawed and providing no evidence of adverse effects." - Wikipedia
 * **What is YOUR perspective on the topic?**
 * We can really trust on the research of GM food now, but I can be certain that the evalution of WHO reasearch will be more trustful.

Due 17 May Format of presentation and outline Lectures Powerpoint Real life situation - Market saling GM food Language - The language use on advertisment or the experts Emotion - Emotion of the experts when they justify their statements Logic - How the research the experts get carry to their final conclusion, is the way logical? Percepion - Baised views from different sides, from background, from research, from technology, from othe issues affecting them
 * 1. Explain the format of your presentation (such as lectures, skits, simulations, games, dramatized readings, interviews or debates.)**
 * 2. What supporting materials will you use? (videos, PowerPoint, posters, questionnaires, recordings of songs or interviews, costumes, or props)**
 * 3. Write a summary in note form (for example, a bullet point list), of the way you plan to deal with knowledge issues during your presentation).**

**4. Provide a clear bibliography for your presentation.**
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31 May Begin presenting!!!