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Sense about Science

Revision as of 20:43, 16 November 2003 by Bob Burton (talk | contribs) (spelling correction - "Broom's Barn" not "Bloom's Barn")

Sense about Science describes it its role as being to "encourage a rational, evidence-based approach to scientific and technological developments."

According to the Daily Telegraph, a group that studies public attitudes to risk (see Risk management).

It works closely with the British Royal Society on contentious issues such as scientific "peer review".[1]

Director Tracey Brown Assistant Ellen Raphael

Both former employees of Regester Larkin, a Risk management PR company.

Contents

Funding

  • Halifax
  • Unlever]
  • GlaxoSmithKline.

Has funded lots of anti-GM research such as a survey on the cost of vandalism to sugar beet trials at Broom's Barn GM research centre.

Trustees

Advisory council

Funders

  • Association of the British Pharmaceutial Industry (ABPI)
  • Amersham plc
  • BBSRC
  • The Biochemical Society
  • BP plc
  • Mr D. Brydon
  • Prof A. Dixon
  • The Society for Endocrinology
  • The Society for General Microbiology
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Halifax Bank of Scotland
  • ISAAA
  • John Innes Centre
  • The John Innes Trust
  • Mr M. Livermore
  • Oxford GlycoSciences plc
  • Blackwells Publishing
  • Dr M. Ridley
  • Social Issues Research Centre
  • Unilever plc.


External links

Andy Rowell and Bob Burton, "Rising Rhetoric on Genetically Modified Crops, "PR Watch", Volume 10 No 1, First quarter 2003.