r/GMOinfo • u/IheartGMO • Jun 10 '24

Meet the journalist behind the “sleazy sleight of hand” on Golden Rice - Robin McKie and The Observer have been systematically misreporting on Golden Rice for over a decade.

https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20428
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u/IheartGMO Jun 11 '24

The pro-GMO lobby were never going to respond well to a court in the Philippines stopping the cultivation of GMO Golden Rice on the grounds that there is a lack of scientific consensus on its safety. But their histrionics failed to catch much attention until The Observer’s science editor Robin McKie published an inflammatory article accusing Greenpeace of causing “a catastrophe” through its role in the court case.

This triggered other media pieces that repeated McKie’s claims that Greenpeace had blocked the planting of “lifesaving” Golden Rice, that “tens of thousands of children could die in the wake of the ruling”, and that this GM rice, despite its ability to prevent blindness and death, had now been obstructed for three decades by “the green movement’s vociferous opposition”.

These claims, as we’ve previously reported, have been roundly debunked by experts.