I count myself among the skeptics. As others commenting here pointed out, the track record of food science is terrible. And it's true that the incentives guidin

I count myself among the skeptics. As others commenting here pointed out, the track record of food science is terrible. And it's true that the incentives guiding scientific publication _about_ food are not directly aligned with the incentives of average Americans _eating_ food (though presumably the scientists also eat....) Publish or perish. Overinterpreted associational studies. Clear accounts of industry manipulating the scientific literature over decades (tobacco, sugar). The endless substances assumed safe but later proven to be damaging to health, sometimes horribly so. So the recently proclamations of the safety of GMO food, at times made by people with a deep interest in one particular outcome, are rightly received with skepticism. As the election of Donald Trump recently reminded us, the mainstream can be very, very wrong in spite of very smart people expounding its views. It's so easy for systemic bias to become accepted as truth, and so easy to become invested in _not_ seeing that.