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EU “independent” bee task force chair plotted to blame neonicotinoids for deaths then cook research to fit PR plan

Ben Webster | Times (UK) | 
Research blaming pesticides for the decline in honeybees has been called into question by a leaked note suggesting that scientists ...
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Precautionary principle backfires in Europe, insecticide ban harms bees and farming

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
An EU pesticide ban that was supposed to protect bees has done no such thing. All it does is damage ...

Oppostion to GM crops counter-productive to environment, economy and consumer

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
The news that Britain could soon grow genetically modified crops commercially is a victory for commonsense over irrational opportunism, and ...

Neanderthal DNA linked to good health and bad

Jonathan Leake | Times (UK) | 
Scientists have found that Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted for tens of thousands of years in Europe and Asia and ...

Cannibal Neanderthals ate an anicent family, DNA evidence suggests

Jonathan Leake | Times (UK) | 
Scientists have found the site of a Neanderthal massacre, where a group of them slaughtered and ate a dozen of ...

GM crops don’t kill kids, opposing them does

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
Golden rice’ prevents the vitamin A deficiency that kills millions every year. Yet Greenpeace is blocking it It was over ...

It’s opponents of GM crops who are harming farmers

Ross Clark | Times (UK) | 
Had he been born 50 years earlier I can imagine Owen Paterson as a stiff young official on the groundnut ...

Four Olympic female athletes found to be genetically male

The following is an excerpt. The governing body of world athletics is under pressure to review its eligibility rules after ...

Luddites are losing the battle over GM crops

Tom Whipple | Times (UK) | 
The following is an edited excerpt.  Most speech writers would have advised a more cautious line of attack. Most spin ...

British Science Minister: Europe must back GM or just be an old-tech museum

Oliver Moody | Times (UK) | 
The following is an excerpt. Britain is urging the European Union to ease restrictions on genetically modified crops and other ...
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