Dit jaar betaalde de Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation een PR firma die Emerging Ag heet, $1.6 miljoen met het doel om via recruitering van een geheime coalitie van academici een UN decision-making proces over gene drives (=nieuwe gentech methode voortkomend uit Crispr Cas9) te manipuleren volgens emails die verkregen zijn via de Freedom of Information requests.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year paid a PR firm called Emerging Ag $1.6 million to recruit a covert coalition of academics to manipulate a UN decision-making process over gene drives, according to emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests.
Bron: Biotechnology, Environment, News December 4, 2017. Gates Foundation Hired PR Firm to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives.
by Jonathan Latham, PhD
Fragment van een van de emails:
Second, we urge you to get yourself (or a colleague) nominated to the UN SBD Synthetic Biology Open-Ended Forum (July-Sept 2017). It is very important to have experts like yourselves to help balance policy discussions that might otherwise be weighted towards imposing a moratorium on gene drive research as we saw last winter at the CBD Convening of the Parties.