To anti-science hippies, 'drink this pesticide if it is so safe' is the kind of mic-dropping burn that resonates with the sub-literate primates who don't understand the basics of toxicology and buy supplements and deny vaccines.

Drinking any pesticide, organic or synthetic, is an IQ test, not a science experiment. Unless you are writing at whatever GM Watch is.

Gawker, everyone's favorite online social bully, first claims that Dr. Patrick Moore is a Monsanto shill before retracting it after doing maybe 5 seconds more of research and discovering he is actually a co-founder of Greenpeace.  But facts needn't get in the way of a good narrative today any more than it ever has - they are big and obnoxious enough that they could even get science writer Razib Khan fired from the New York Times before he started, by suggesting he is some sort of closet KKK member because he doesn't put midtown-Manhattan sociology before genetics.



The gleeful corporate toadie then yells "Science!", but only ironically.

And you know what, their strategy works. They have 80 million pageviews a month, and their writers all have a quota they have to hit, and the way to meet that quota and nail down that $30,000 a year career is to be bombastic and insulting to people whose lawns they have not demonstrated they are not qualified to mow.