A chart of negative representations of GMOs tapping into intuitive preferences. Credit: Blancke et al./Trends in Plant Science 2015
The reason some people don't trust science has evolutionary roots, a group of Belgian scholars believe - science is complex, they say, and when brains were more primitive, the world had to be made as simple as possible. So 'if I can't pronounce it, you should not eat it' may be a relic of our neuroscience past and some people will have that fear in greater amounts than others.
And environmental groups keep it simple. Science is bad, while science acknowledges its complexity, which makes the job of people who want to undermine science easier.
In a paper in Trends in Plant Science, a group argues that the human mind is highly susceptible to the negative and often emotional representations put out by certain environmental groups and other opponents of GMOs....
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