> The scientists repeatedly treated these forms of resistance [to GMOs] as arising
> from idiotic, anti-modern, hysterically romantic foolishness... an
> utterly despicable and more intellectually and scientifically moribund
> practice than that of the resistors.
Perhaps you've dug into the matter more than I have, but this treatment of resistance seems to have sources much broader than any group of scientists (many of whom agree with much of the critique: http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/ ).
One of my beefs with at least the popular face of science studies that I've encountered is that the tendency to use science as a club, often in a way that contradicts its own findings, is imbedded more in the larger culture than being specific to science or the culture of scientists.
-- Andy