Anti-GM activists are demanding that the European Commission abolish the post of Chief Scientific Officer. Scientists John Davison and Marcel Kuntz lament the way science is losing out to politics.
Politics are winning at the expense of science in France and now the entire European Union faces a similar fate. On Tuesday 22 July 2014 nine “green” anti-GM organisations demanded that the incoming European Commission (EC) president abolish the position of Chief Scientific Officer, presently held by Professor Anne Glover.
“We hope that you as the incoming EC president will decide not to nominate a chief scientific adviser and that instead the EC will take its advice from a variety of independent, multi-disciplinary sources,” concludes the letter whose signatories include Greenpeace.
We fear not only for the progress of agriculture, but for all scientific enterprise in Europe.
While the world’s key food safety and scientific authorities have judged genetically modified (GM) crops to be as safe as conventional varieties, anti-GM NGOs and green politicians remain obsessed with opposing them because they do not comply with their predetermined political agenda...
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