[sampo]

> there is a very real concern

Also e.g. anti-vaccine people have very real concerns. They just are not scientifically founded.

Here is a summary report on 10 years, 200 million euros of research in Europe:

"The main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than e.g. conventional plant breeding technologies."

ref.: A decade of EU-funded GMO research (2001 - 2010) http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-f...

Can you give any scientific references to support your "very real" concern?

[xorcist]

> Also e.g. anti-vaccine people have very real concerns. They just are not scientifically founded.

They also have some very real concerns. It makes it all very complex to weed out who what to listen for and from who. The answer is probably that you should listen to arguments, not persons, and that you should begin with the arguments you find strongest.

(See for example Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma about medicine research.)