I'm thinking of things like genetically modified organisms, which sounds dystopian, but can be extremely beneficial.

I'm thinking of rice genetically modified to provide essential nutrients missing from people's diets. It's already saving lives in the Philippines and elsewhere, but some people are so opposed to the idea of corporate agriculture, and so insistent on equating science with witchcraft or something that they're up in arms over this boon to humanity.

Sure, Big Ag has big problems. The way GMO seeds are distributed and sold can be more than unfair to farmers who want to reserve their own seed for the next growing season.

But people don't generally protest about those real problems, they protest about GMO itself, dead set against it, unwilling to listen to the scientists or consider the benefit of the product.

The opposition is at heart anti-science, reflexive anti-science that cannot be moved by facts.