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For those who want to see more, here's the methodology.

Jan. 6, 2019 by Catherine Pope

For those who want to see more, here's the methodology. The researchers used a series of questions to measure the prevalence of all three political ideologies. Of the 500 respondents who gave the most information about their party's platform on GMOs, about 90 percent said they were "very worried" about the issue. Only about half of those who had not given any information expressed any concern at all about GMOs. The researchers asked a third of them to rate the effectiveness of the issue on various measures of their political commitment. And what they found was that when asked whether they considered the issue to be "very important," and if they didn't "think" it to be "important," more than half of respondents said they "had no opinion on the issue at all." But this wasn't the case for Democrats: only one in eight respondents said they had "no opinion" about the issue.

There's no scientific evidence that GMOs are harmful, but the findings in this study are pretty clear: these are people who think GMOs cause cancer; most of them oppose the use of genetically modified food. And they might also say that GMO foods are more likely to cause cancer than those without GMOs.

The same conclusion appears in a new study: the researchers' results don't lend any support to the argument that GMOs cause cancer. They simply found those who didn't identify with the political party preferred the GMOs more over those who did.

In other words, they found one way to put it: those who said they're "very concerned" about GMOs are more likely to be "very concerned about GMOs."

Of course, this isn't about making the argument that GMOs are harmful. It's about pointing out that there's an undercurrent of support for GMOs on the right. People who support GMOs are more likely to identify with organizations like Action on GMOs, which oppose Monsanto and other industries that are damaging their own bottom lines; and people who don't think GMOs are harmful are more likely to be "very concerned" about GMOs. But if this is your preferred political ideology, don't make it too difficult to make that the case.

This isn't to say that the American people are opposed to GMOs. But their opposition might be different than they believe. And to be fair, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that it's true that the people who don't agree with GMOs are more likely to be "very concerned" about GMOs. But in many ways, the evidence here seems to be more of the same.