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Subject: 107 Nobel Laureate Attack on Greenpeace Traced Back to Biotech
PR Operators
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:00:54 -0400
From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org>
To: bsr-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org
Dear Friends and Colleagues
Apologies for the short interval but we could not resist writing up this
short story.
Published today (July 1st 2016) on Independent Science News:
107 Nobel Laureate Attack on Greenpeace Traced Back to Biotech PR Operators
by Jonathan Latham, PhD
Synopsis: When 107 Nobel Laureates demanded that Greenpeace cease its
opposition to GMOs and “golden rice”, no one in the press seems to have
asked if the event was organised by the biotech industry. They should have.
Pleae share if you enjoy it. Appologies for cross posting.
Best wishes
Jonathan
Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and
opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those
who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible
government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays,
Propaganda
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“*We were told that only credentialed Press were allowed.*” Schwab
told *Independent
Science News*.
According to Schwab “I then saw Greg Jaffe from the NGO Center for Science
in The Public Interest (CSPI) entering the room.” Informed of this, the
security person changed his story: some NGO’s were invited to attend.
Afterwords, Schwab told us “*Some NGOs were invited: Really? Why not
Greenpeace—the subject of this campaign?*”
Nor was the security person just anyone. Schwab and Cray recognised him as
Jay Byrne. Byrne is the former head of corporate communications for
Monsanto (1997-2001 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Byrne>).
Charlie Cray, the Greenpeace researcher later tweeted this:
[image: Charlie Cray Tweet re Jay Byrne]
Charlie Cray Tweet re Jay Byrne
According to the website GMWatch
<http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/17077>, the url:
supportprecisionagriculture.org has an inoperative sister:
supportprecisionagriculture.*com* that is traceable back to the Genetic
Literacy Project.