Mark Henderson

Mark Henderson is science editor of The Times. He is not a scientist.

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.

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

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