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The chief scientific adviser to the European Commission has been ousted after a lobbying campaign led by Greenpeace, which objected to her support for genetically modified crops.
Professor Anne Glover had said there was no evidence of adverse impacts of GM crops and that opposing them was “a form of madness”.
She revealed in an email yesterday to the heads of national science academies that her post had “ceased to exist” and that she would leave the commission in January.
Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, and many other senior scientists condemned the decision by Jean-Claude Juncker
The Times