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Canada's covert attack on Ireland's GM-free policy
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The Canadian Government's dirty tricks campaign
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The GM Propaganda Lab - the article they didn't want you to read
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Pseudoscience
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Professor Joe Cummins: SLAPP suits in biotechnology
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GW Watch response: Propaganda, Fraud and Libel
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Soil Association: complaint to UK High Commissioner for Canada
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Soil Association: British Food Journal should withdraw paper by Powell, Blaine, Morris and Wilson
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GM Watch article: "Wormy corn scientists' claims 'untrue'"
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University of New South Wales computer imaging expert: Morris paper's claims "untrue"
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Agri-biotech industry lobbyists rally around wormy corn scientist
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Cambridge University research ethics expert: Morris paper is "flagrant fraud"
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Private Eye "Corn Fakes" article: Shane Morris libel threats are "heavy-handed"
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Soil Association: Morris criticised for "personal abuse"
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Food Consumer Org article: company research on GM food is rigged
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The Ecologist magazine: who pulled the plug on GM Watch website?
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Private Eye magazine: Corn on the cobblers
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UK House of Commons: Early Day Motion condemns Shane Morris
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Irish Senate: call for Government to condemn Canadian interference in Irish political discourse
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Open letter to British Food Journal signed by 40 leading experts
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Canada dirty tricks exposed in WTO dispute on GMOs (GM-free Ireland press release, 28 January 2008)
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Michael Meacher MP - correspondence with High Commissioner for Canada
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Part 18: Irish Senate:
Call for Government to condemn Canadian interference in Irish political discourse
Senators David Norris, Dan Boyle, Deirdre de Burca, Pearse Doherty, and Phil Prendergast have asked the Leader of the Senate to request the Government to formally intervene to stop "the extraordinary interference by an agent of the Canadian Government in political discourse in this country".
The Senators have taken this step after the following speech by Senator David Norris at the Irish Senate on 6 December 2007 [extract]:
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"Will the Leader raise with Government the extraordinary interference by an agent of the Canadian Government in political discourse in this country?
I refer to the attempt by an agent of the Canadian Government - whose name I have, but I will not put it on the record as I understand this is improper - to close down the website of GM-Free Ireland. This has been raised in the House of Commons in an Early Day Motion signed by Michael Meacher and 17 other MPs deploring the efforts of this person to shut down websites using the threat of action for defamation, which is interesting given we were dealing with defamation yesterday.
The website referred to the fact that the research of this person was fraudulent, as it was. The fraud consisted of the following. The research group monitored the buying habits of consumers in a supermarket in Canada in their choice of sweetcorn and determined that a certain type of sweetcorn was more popular. It was later found, however, that one type of sweetcorn was sold next to a sign referring to quality sweetcorn while the other was next to a sign that read: "Would you eat wormy sweetcorn?" That is not exactly a level playing field. It was a complete abnegation of all scientific standards. This man is now trying to close down Irish networks that tell the truth about GM food, with interventions by large companies such as Monsanto to deface clear scientific research."
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(For full text see http://www.senatordavidnorris.ie/blogger/2007/12/order-of-business-6th-december-2007.html)
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