John Davison
European Union’s process-based GMO regulations ‘defy scientific, economic, and common sense’
[Editor's note: John Davison, now retired, was the research director at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France. Klaus ...
Attack on European Commission chief scientific adviser’s position cause for alarm
Political ecologists like science… when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather than changing their minds they often ...
Can Europe return to ‘knowledge-based’ society amid anti-GMO calls to topple science adviser?
Politics are winning at the expense of science in France and now the entire European Union faces a similar fate. On ...
EU rules that honey containing GM pollen will not require a label
The European Parliament has ruled that pollen is a natural constituent of honey and not an ingredient, as anti-GMO forces ...
On GMOs, France becoming scientific backwater
France does not walk in the footsteps of Norman Borlaug. Half a century of rising farm productivity has let France ...
EU governments ignoring their own scientific risk evaluation committees for political gain
EU governments are ignoring on their own scientific risk evaluation committees and creating false pseudo-scientific documents for political gain. In ...
Are engineered foods evil?—A reply to Scientific American’s David H. Freedman
A former Research Director of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research in France takes Scientific American to task for ...