Robert May - Revision history

Melissa Jones at 06:40, 16 February 2015

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Interests

Melissa Jones: /* Declared interests 2014 */

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Declared interests 2014

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Josh Leeson at 15:43, 22 December 2014

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David: /* Background */

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Background

John Ashmore at 11:54, 8 September 2009

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John Ashmore at 11:53, 8 September 2009

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John Ashmore at 11:52, 8 September 2009

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Claire Robinson: /* Pro-GM */

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 While May called for the public to have an open mind and to steer clear of dogma, his own mind and that of the Royal Society seemed entirely made up. The Director of Sense About Science, meanwhile, is part of the fervently pro-GM, pro-cloning [[Living Marxism]] network.
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 *Member, [[UK Climate Change Committee]]<ref name="parl"/>
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 ==Interests==
 *Non-executive Director, [[Defence Science and Technology Laboratory]] Board (DSTL)
-*Member, Corporate Sustainability Board [[HSBC]] (previously Corporate Social Responsibility Committee)
+*Member, Corporate Sustainability Board [[HSBC]] (previously Corporate Social Responsibility Committee) - since 2001
 *Member, International Advisory Board, Sustainable Consumption Institute, [[Manchester University]]
 *Member, [[UK Climate Change Committee]]<ref name="parl"/>

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 *Member, [[UK Climate Change Committee]]<ref name="parl"/>
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+==Declared interests - HSBC==
-In an investigation into interests of members of the House of Lords by the ''Wall Street Journal'', May said he is no longer on the [[HSBC]] advisory board and that during his time on the board he spent much of his energy advocating that women be promoted to senior positions.<ref> [http://graphics.wsj.com/house-of-lords/ House of Lords] ''Wall Street Journal'', accessed 22 December 2014 </ref> Despite this claim, the role has not been removed from his parliament profile.<ref name="parl"/>
+In an investigation into interests of members of the House of Lords by the ''Wall Street Journal'', May said he is no longer on the [[HSBC]] advisory board and that during his time on the board he spent much of his energy advocating that women be promoted to senior positions.<ref> [http://graphics.wsj.com/house-of-lords/ House of Lords] ''Wall Street Journal'', accessed 22 December 2014 </ref> Despite this claim, the role had not been removed from his parliament profile as of 16 February 2015, a week after the political firestorm over the disclosure of HSBC's Swiss subsidiary's activities.<ref name="parl"/>
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 *Member, [[UK Climate Change Committee]]<ref name="parl"/>
-In an investigation into interests of members of the House of Lords by the ''Wall Street Journal'', May said he no is longer on the [[HSBC]] advisory board and that during his time on the board he spent much of his energy advocating that women be promoted to senior positions.<ref> [http://graphics.wsj.com/house-of-lords/ House of Lords] ''Wall Street Journal'', accessed 22 December 2014 </ref> Despite this claim, the role has not been removed from his parliament profile.<ref name="parl"/>
+==Declared interests 2014==
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 As chief scientific advisor, May is regarded as having helped to build the case for the year-on-year real terms increases in science's budget that were won from the Treasury by Tony Blair's Science Minister [[Lord David Sainsbury]].  May also pursued a public agenda of seeking more openness about the scientific advice the government received. As one admiring  [http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bulletins/bulletinSummer01/features/may.html article] put it, 'During May's tenure the whole structure of scientific advisory committees was revised to include bodies that had a more strategic position on issues such as food safety and human genetics, and that included members from a broader range of backgrounds. At the same time he issued guidelines establishing openness rather than secrecy as a fundamental principle of their activities. Far from dismissing the anti-science attitudes of animal welfare, consumer, or anti-capitalist organizations, May believes that societies should engage the full range of views in the debate about what kind of world we want to live in.' He retired from being the President of the Royal Society in December 2005.
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 While May called for the public to have an open mind and to steer clear of dogma, his own mind and that of the Royal Society seemed entirely made up. The Director of Sense About Science, meanwhile, is part of the fervently pro-GM, pro-cloning [[Living Marxism]] network.
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-[[Category:Corporate Science (GM)|May, Robert]] [[Category: Food lobbyists and PR consultants|May, Robert]][[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists|May, Robert]][[Category:GM|May, Robert]][[Category:Individuals linked to the push for nuclear|May, Robert]]
+[[Category:Corporate Science (GM)|May, Robert]] [[Category: Food lobbyists and PR consultants|May, Robert]][[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists|May, Robert]][[Category:GM|May, Robert]][[Category:Individuals linked to the push for nuclear|May, Robert]][[Category:Revolving Door|May, Robert]][[Category:Financial sector lobbying|May, Robert]]

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-'''Robert''' (Bob) '''May''' succeeded Sir [[Aaron Klug]] as President of the [[Royal Society]] in December 2000. Prior to that, May was the UK government's chief scientific advisor (1995-2000). He received a knighthood in 1996 and was subsequently made  Baron May of Oxford. He has been based, like Sir [[John Krebs]], in Oxford University's Zoology Department since 1988. He is a Royal Society research professor specialising in mathematical biology.
+'''Robert''' (Bob) '''May''' succeeded Sir [[Aaron Klug]] as President of the [[Royal Society]] in December 2000. Prior to that, May was the UK government's [[government Chief scientific Adviser|chief scientific advisor]] (1995-2000). He received a knighthood in 1996 and was subsequently made  Baron May of Oxford. He has been based, like Sir [[John Krebs]], in Oxford University's Zoology Department since 1988. He is a Royal Society research professor specialising in mathematical biology.
 As chief scientific advisor, May is regarded as having helped to build the case for the year-on-year real terms increases in science's budget that were won from the Treasury by Tony Blair's Science Minister [[Lord David Sainsbury]].  May also pursued a public agenda of seeking more openness about the scientific advice the government received. As one admiring  [http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bulletins/bulletinSummer01/features/may.html article] put it, 'During May's tenure the whole structure of scientific advisory committees was revised to include bodies that had a more strategic position on issues such as food safety and human genetics, and that included members from a broader range of backgrounds. At the same time he issued guidelines establishing openness rather than secrecy as a fundamental principle of their activities. Far from dismissing the anti-science attitudes of animal welfare, consumer, or anti-capitalist organizations, May believes that societies should engage the full range of views in the debate about what kind of world we want to live in.' He retired from being the President of the Royal Society in December 2005.

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 However, although this may have been May's public agenda for regaining the public's confidence after the BSE debacle, there is evidence of his involvement in a covert strategy to undermine the public credibility of scientists and scientific research raising  questions about GM.
-After Dr [[Arpad Pusztai]] went public with his doubts about the safety of GM foods, followed by the publication in 1999 of the British Medical Association report calling for an indefinite moratorium on GM crops, no less than four reports on biotechnology were rushed out in the space of just two days. All trumpeted the safety of GM foods and crops, and all condemned Pusztai&#39;s research, which suggested the opposite. The first report was by the government's chief scientific advisor, Robert May, and its chief medical advisor, Prof Liam Donaldson (the May/Donaldson report). The others were from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee; the [[Royal Society]], of which may was then a leading Fellow; and the [[Nuffield Council on Bioethics]] report.
+After Dr [[Arpad Pusztai]] went public with his doubts about the safety of GM foods, followed by the publication in 1999 of the British Medical Association report calling for an indefinite moratorium on GM crops, no less than four reports on biotechnology were rushed out in the space of just two days. All trumpeted the safety of GM foods and crops, and all condemned Pusztai&#39;s research, which suggested the opposite. The first report was by the government's chief scientific advisor, Robert May, and its chief medical advisor, Prof [[Liam Donaldson]] (the May/Donaldson report). The others were from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee; the [[Royal Society]], of which may was then a leading Fellow; and the [[Nuffield Council on Bioethics]] report.
 These were four reports containing one theme and this conveniently timed package enabled Blair's then 'Cabinet Enforcer', Dr [[Jack Cunningham]], to announce that Dr Pusztai's work had been 'comprehensively discredited.' Sir Robert May added that Dr Pusztai was guilty of 'violating every canon of scientific rectitude' by speaking publicly about his results before the paper had been peer reviewed and published.