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Revision as of 18:46, 8 March 2011
Mark Henderson is science editor of The Times. He is not a scientist.[1]
Activities
Henderson has written many pro-GM articles. For example, he is one of several journalists who have repeated the periodically recurring 'crisis narrative' story to the effect that the banana will become extinct without GM:
- Mark Henderson, "Bananas 'will slip into extinction without GM'", The Times, 16 January 2003
The banana claim was countered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, which issued a statement saying that small-scale farmers around the world grew a wide range of banana species not threatened by the disease that has attacked the Cavendish type sold mostly on the world's supermarket shelves.[2]
Many of the articles quote the same scientist, Dr Emile Frison.
For more banana-related scaremongering, see:
- GMWatch, "Only GM can save the banana", 2009
Affiliations
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Notes
- ↑ Sense About Science, Interview with Mark Henderson, acc 8 Mar 2011,
- ↑ Agence France Presse, UN FOOD AGENCY SAYS BANANAS NOT THREATENED, Jan 30 2003, acc 8 Mar 2011
