A recent poll found that in defiance of what marketing claims are about organic food, anti-GMO beliefs are actually a sign of being less educated. This is a big blow to Organic Consumers Association and the attack groups they fund to say just the opposite, such as U.S. Right To Know and SourceWatch.
How was it ever otherwise? It’s the magic of statistics coupled with positive spin. On average a higher education corresponds to higher income(1) and Whole Foods puts its stores where the rich people are, so it was safe to say those areas are better educated. And then they had demographic data to affirm it. In the 2008 election, for example, Senator Obama claimed he was going to be “scientist-in-chief,” an appeal to why smart people should vote for him. And in that election 80 percent of counties with a Whole Foods store did vote for him, which affirmed the self-identification of people who felt like they were smarter for buying organic.
But there were already serious problems in that self-identification. It was also evident that the most pro-organic groups also showed a high propensity for anti-science beliefs about vaccines, energy and many other things that have benefited the modern world.
How could they be both self-reportedly smarter than those who bought normal food and gave their kids vaccines yet still be so clearly anti-science?......
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