New York Magazine: "Chipotle Is Promoting Opportunistic Anti-Science Hysteria"

The media has been very skeptical of the anti-GMO groups of late. Some see it as overreach by the anti-GMO side as they make ever more hysterical claims about the ill effects of GMO's. It's seen as intentionally fomenting paranoia and misinformation across the country. 

For instance, when even Mother Earth comes out swinging against Chipotle for its new GMO stance you know there's a shift in thinking. Here's an excerpt from Jesse Singal from the "Science Of Us" section in the New York Magazine: 

     Part of the reason GMO hysteria arose in the first place is that most people barely know what GMOs are [emphasis added]. Yoel Inbar, a psychologist at the University of Toronto who studies human judgement and decision-making, said consumers tend to perform just a bit better than a coin flip on simple true-false questions on the subject. “People are alarmingly bad at answering those sorts of questions,” he said. They fear GMOs because of all the images of syringes and tomatoes and evil-looking scientists that pop up when they Google the term, and because of the false specter of giant rat tumors. This fear has created a a gulf between the public's views on GMOs and those of the scientific Establishment. As Mark Lynas, a researcher at the Cornell Alliance for Science and former anti-GMO activist, pointed out in a Times Sunday Review article on how he came around to the technology, a recent poll showed that while “88 percent of ... scientists agreed it was safe to eat genetically modified foods, only 37 percent of the public did — a gap in perceptions of 51 points,” he wrote. That is significantly larger than the gap on climate change (37 points) or childhood vaccinations (18 points).

There's a "March Against Monsanto" coming up in West Palm Beach. How many of those marching actually know what a GMO is?