@mburuke; Michael Joseph was right: Kenyans are a peculiar lot! They would rather believe what politicians tell them, but when opinion polls are conducted, they tell the pollsters that they don't trust politicians. Perhaps I should have said that Kenyans are liars, but that would have been too harsh.
Today, we are rejecting GM foods because some politicians (Mututho et al) have said they are not safe. Yet our scientists are telling us that nobody has proven that GM foods are unsafe!
It reminds me of the hoolabaloo about the drink Alvaro. When questions were raised about whether it contains alcohol (since it is produced by a beer company using barley), the Government Chemist went to EABL and collected random samples.
The samples were tested in the lab and were found not to contain any alcohol. The report was given to the parliamentary committee investigating the matter. However, the MPs didn't believe it, so they made an "inspection tour" of the production facility.
Now, none of this lot was an industrial chemist, so all they saw were machines producing the drink but no one understood exaclty what was going on! But they still came out patting themselves on the back and proclaiming that they have "confirmed that Alvaro has no alcohol".
It was only then that Kenyans trusted the drink!
Like you, I am a scientist, though not in your field of expertise; so, like Chaka Khan said: "I feel for you".
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