The science of agricultural biotechnology is a proxy battleground for many people with political or cultural objections to GMOs, much in the way climate science is a proxy for those who associate it with implied political and economic changes they view as a threat to their way of life.
Keith Kloor
“Why communicating the science risks of GMOs is so challenging”
Genetic Literacy Project.
January 20, 2015
Yep. Sums it up nicely.