Philip Stott - Revision history

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Claire Robinson: /* Affiliations and networks */

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Claire Robinson: /* Affiliations and networks */

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Claire Robinson: /* Pro-GM */

2009-10-03T09:52:39Z

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Claire Robinson: /* Pro-GM */

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Claire Robinson: /* Climate change denial and pro-GM blogs */

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Climate change denial and pro-GM blogs

Claire Robinson: /* Climate change denial and pro-GM blogs */

2009-10-03T09:46:47Z

Climate change denial and pro-GM blogs

Claire Robinson at 09:37, 3 October 2009

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Claire Robinson at 19:06, 16 September 2009

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 Ironically, Stott's vision of extremists with underlying agendas  exploiting the GM debate fits many of those with whom Philip Stott aligns himself. He serves on  the Advisory Forum of the [[Scientific Alliance]], whose founder describes himself as 'a businessman who is totally fed up with all this environmental stuff' and has suggested Tony Blair introduces martial law. He has also founded  a People's Alliance - aka The [[New Party]] (the name of [[Oswald Mosley]]&#39;s first political party), which  is so far to the right it has been labelled 'fascist'.
-Stott contributes articles to [[Spiked]], an online 'magazine' to which he has a link from his [[EnviroSpin Watch]] blog.<ref>http://greenspin.blogspot.com/ </ref>  [[Spiked]] is part of a semi-clandestine network of political extremists (the [[LM Group]]).
+Stott contributes articles to [[Spiked]], an online 'magazine' to which he has a link from his [[EnviroSpin Watch]] blog.<ref>http://greenspin.blogspot.com/ </ref>  [[Spiked]] is part of a semi-clandestine network of political extremists (the [[LM Network]]).
 Stott also regularly collaborates with a small coterie of right wing contrarians, including [[Matt Ridley]] and [[Julian Morris]], centered principally on the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] (IEA) and the related [[European Science and Environment Forum]] (ESEF).  The latter was set up with funding from [[Philip Morris]] as part of the tobacco giant's covert PR campaign to undermine industry-critical research .

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 Indeed, the only environmental group known to have been invited to contribute,  the [[Royal Society for the Protection of Birds]] (RSPB), withdrew because of doubts about the accuracy of the information it had been given. According to Graham Wynne, Chief Executive of the RSPB: 'When we received the details, the balance of the conference content was different to that which had been understood at the time of the invitation to speak.'<ref>Ref needed</ref>
-Although he constantly deprecates 'ad personam abuse', Stott dismisses the RSPB as the ' "Our feathered friends are more important than anything else in the world!" brigade', labelling the million-member organisation 'nerds with binoculars'! (The 'Real' Green Dictionary - Philip Stott 2001) He also dismissed Dr Arpad Pusztai as a 'maverick' during a BBC Radio 4 programme, The Moral Maze. This piece of 'ad personam abuse' is particularly ironic given that Stott's views are seriously at odds with the scientific consensus on a number of issues.<ref>see Jeff Harvey's comments http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/INGLES/Disgrace.html</ref>
+Although he constantly deprecates 'ad personam abuse', Stott dismisses the RSPB as the ' "Our feathered friends are more important than anything else in the world!" brigade', labelling the million-member organisation 'nerds with binoculars'! (The 'Real' Green Dictionary - Philip Stott 2001) He also dismissed Dr [[Arpad Pusztai]] as a 'maverick' during a BBC Radio 4 programme, The Moral Maze. This piece of 'ad personam abuse' is particularly ironic given that Stott's views are seriously at odds with the scientific consensus on a number of issues.<ref>see Jeff Harvey's comments http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/INGLES/Disgrace.html</ref>
 The environment correspondent of the Guardian, John Vidal, has described Prof Stott - in Stott-like vein - as 'an alarming academic' who pushes George Bush's agenda (The Guardian, June 6, 2001). The director of the Environmental Research Foundation, [[Peter Montague]], is equally blunt: 'It is evident that Professor Stott has abandoned his role as a serious scholar and has become a cheerleader for the biotech industry.'<ref>[http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/3187</ref>
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 Stott likes to emphasise that he is 'a totally independent academic' and that he does not take corporate money, but he appears perfectly happy to closely collaborate with those who do. He also authors material for [[Tech Central Station]], founded by the conservative journo/corporate lobbyist, [[James Glassman]].
-Stott appeared as a key contributor in the ''Counterblast'' TV programme attacking organic farming, presented by [[Roger Bate]] as director of ESEF. According to Stott, "The idea that [organic] can replace other forms of agriculture is a dangerous lie."<ref>Philip Stott, [http://www.agairupdate.com/aau/articles/STF/Series3/Article20.html The ‘Organic Myth’], AgAir Update ("an international agricultural aviation publication"), undated, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>
+Stott appeared as a key contributor in the ''Counterblast'' TV programme attacking organic farming, presented by [[Roger Bate]] as director of ESEF. According to Stott, "The idea that [organic] can replace other forms of agriculture is a dangerous lie."<ref>Philip Stott, [http://www.agairupdate.com/aau/articles/STF/Series3/Article20.html The ‘Organic Myth’], AgAir Update ("an international agricultural aviation publication"), undated, accessed 3 Oct 2009; the same quote is available as a headline and within the article at [http://archives.foodsafety.ksu.edu/agnet/2000/2-2000/ag-02-01-00-01.txt The Organic Myth: The Idea that it can replace other forms of agriculture is a dangerous lie], BBC Online, 31 Jan 2000, accessed Oct 3 2009</ref>
 Even though his anti-environmental conclusions correspond precisely with those of the pro-corporate right, Stott claims to be a 'Guardian reader' and that he 'comes from the left'. It is hard to marry such claims with someone who refers disparagingly to the Society Section of The Guardian as 'tear-stained'; labels subject areas like Development Studies 'dubious'; and implies  environmentalism is socialism with a green face:  'Environmentalism has become the main vehicle for the resurgence of command-and-control ideas after the collapse of the socialist model in the wake of the Cold War. Discuss...'<ref>(These comments were all taken from [http://greenspin.blogspot.com/2003_11_02_greenspin_archive.html just one page of Stott's blog])</ref>

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 Stott likes to emphasise that he is 'a totally independent academic' and that he does not take corporate money, but he appears perfectly happy to closely collaborate with those who do. He also authors material for [[Tech Central Station]], founded by the conservative journo/corporate lobbyist, [[James Glassman]].
-Stott appeared as a key contributor in the ''Counterblast'' TV programme attacking organic farming, presented by [[Roger Bate]] as director of ESEF. According to Stott, 'The idea that [organic] can replace other forms of agriculture is a dangerous lie.'<ref>Ref needed</ref>
+Stott appeared as a key contributor in the ''Counterblast'' TV programme attacking organic farming, presented by [[Roger Bate]] as director of ESEF. According to Stott, "The idea that [organic] can replace other forms of agriculture is a dangerous lie."<ref>Philip Stott, [http://www.agairupdate.com/aau/articles/STF/Series3/Article20.html The ‘Organic Myth’], AgAir Update ("an international agricultural aviation publication"), undated, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>
 Even though his anti-environmental conclusions correspond precisely with those of the pro-corporate right, Stott claims to be a 'Guardian reader' and that he 'comes from the left'. It is hard to marry such claims with someone who refers disparagingly to the Society Section of The Guardian as 'tear-stained'; labels subject areas like Development Studies 'dubious'; and implies  environmentalism is socialism with a green face:  'Environmentalism has become the main vehicle for the resurgence of command-and-control ideas after the collapse of the socialist model in the wake of the Cold War. Discuss...'<ref>(These comments were all taken from [http://greenspin.blogspot.com/2003_11_02_greenspin_archive.html just one page of Stott's blog])</ref>

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 Prof Stott also claims to use the tools of post-modernism to expose the 'religious' zeal underlying environmental concerns. Despite this anxiety to 'deconstruct' the language of what he terms 'eco-hype', he shows no comparable interest in unpacking the language of 'techno-utopianism' or of 'sound science' myth making. On the contrary, his own writings on biotechnology are full of religious zeal and what can only be termed 'bio-hype'. Here's Prof Stott on the human genome project, 'Today, we shall truly ''eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil'' (Genesis 1.17), for two teams of scientists... have come together to announce the decoding of the alphabet of human life. And ''we shall be as gods".' In another essay Stott talks of 'that Holy Grail of the human genome, our very own alphabet of life' and continues, 'We are truly standing on a great peak and a new country lies at our feet.'<ref> [http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/319.htm (Biotechnology: Mary Shelley or Galileo?)]</ref>
 ==Pro-GM==
-Prof Stott displays an extreme antipathy towards those with concerns about genetic engineering and presents them as extremists with semi-clandestine political agendas. [http://www.monsanto.co.uk/news/2000/july2000/03072000agriconline.html Asked in an interview] to account for the current resistance to GM foods in Europe, he claimed:
+Prof Stott displays an extreme antipathy towards those with concerns about genetic engineering and presents them as extremists with semi-clandestine political agendas. Asked in an interview to account for the resistance to GM foods in Europe, he claimed:
 :the real reason for the hysteria is indeed the exploitation of the fears... by extreme environmental groups, who often have little interest in the 'science', but who have social agendas of their own. These groups want to 'stop-the-world-and-get-off' and they will abuse and misuse 'science' to achieve their ends. They are avowedly anti-capitalist, anti-development, anti-science, sometimes even anti-farming, and most certainly anti-American, and they want to position America, and its biotech companies, as the 'Great Satan.' Many were at Seattle and Washington DC for the WTO and World Bank protests, and they regularly visit St Louis in small numbers to attack Monsanto, DuPont, etc.<ref>Johan Bakker, [http://www.monsanto.co.uk/news/2000/july2000/03072000agriconline.html Some Straight Talk About GMOs - Interview With Professor Philip Stott], Agriculture Online, 3 July 2000, archived on Monsanto website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>

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 {{Template:Climate badge}}'''Philip Stott''' is professor emeritus of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a leading climate change sceptic. He also edits the ''Journal of Biogeography''.
 ==Climate change denial and pro-GM blogs==
-Stott edits his own campaigning website, AntiEcohype,<ref>[http://www.probiotech.fsnet.co.uk/forest.html Forests], AntiEcohype website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref> which contains a number of his articles on topics such as climate, sustainability, biotechnology and forests. This website was superseded by a blog, EnviroSpin Watch<ref>[http://greenspin.blogspot.com/ Home page], EnviroSpin Watch website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>. This blog was in turn superseded as of October 2007 by a new blog, Global Warming Politics <ref>[http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/A_Hot_Topic_Blog.html Home page], Global Warming Politics blog, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>. At one time Stott also ran a separate 'Pro-Biotech' website. He is a regular panelist on a 'critical environmental programme' (his description) - BBC Radio 4's Home Planet.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sdz0 Home page], Home Planet website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>
+Stott edits his own campaigning website, AntiEcohype,<ref>[http://www.probiotech.fsnet.co.uk/forest.html Forests], AntiEcohype website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref> which contains a number of his articles on topics such as climate, sustainability, biotechnology and forests. This website was superseded by a blog, EnviroSpin Watch<ref>[http://greenspin.blogspot.com/ Home page], EnviroSpin Watch website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>. This blog was in turn superseded as of October 2007 by a new blog, Global Warming Politics <ref>[http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/A_Hot_Topic_Blog.html Home page], Global Warming Politics blog, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>. At one time Stott also ran a separate 'Pro-Biotech' website. He is a regular panelist on a 'critical environmental programme' (his description)<ref>Philip Stott, [http://greenspin.blogspot.com/2005_01_30_archive.html It's time to visit the 'Home Planet' again...], EnviroSpin Watch blog, Tuesday, February 01, 2005, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref> - BBC Radio 4's Home Planet.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sdz0 Home page], Home Planet website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>
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