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Mark Henderson is science editor of [[The Times]]. He is not a scientist.<ref>Sense About Science, [http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/about/100 Interview with Mark Henderson], acc 8 Mar 2011,</ref> | Mark Henderson is science editor of [[The Times]]. He is not a scientist.<ref>Sense About Science, [http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/about/100 Interview with Mark Henderson], acc 8 Mar 2011,</ref> | ||
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*Mark Henderson, "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article812896.ece Bananas 'will slip into extinction without GM'"], The Times, 16 January 2003 | *Mark Henderson, "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article812896.ece Bananas 'will slip into extinction without GM'"], The Times, 16 January 2003 | ||
Revision as of 18:42, 8 March 2011
Mark Henderson is science editor of The Times. He is not a scientist.[1]
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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]
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- ↑ 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
