[P2P-F] Fwd: Gates Foundation Hired PR Firm to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives

Mon Dec 4 16:35:55 CET 2017

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From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 6:09 AM
Subject: Gates Foundation Hired PR Firm to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives
To: bsr-PROJECT-ELIST1 at gn.apc.org

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published today, Monday Dec. 4th 2017 by *Independent Science News*:
*Gates Foundation Hired PR Firm to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives*
by Jonathan Latham, PhD

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/gates-foundation-hired-
pr-firm-to-manipulate-un-over-gene-drives/

*Synopsis:* Dec 5th is the opening day of a UN meeting in Montreal whose
purpose is to help governments protect biodiversity. That meeting may
decide the fate of gene drives, a technology in which the Gates Foundation
is heavily invested, especially through its Target Malaria project. Gene
drives are an experimental genetic technology intended to cause population
extinctions. Freedom of Information act emails obtained from the University
of North Carolina and released today, however, show that, in advance of
that meeting, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has for months been
seeking to secretly influence its outcome in favour of gene drive use. The
Foundation has hired a PR consultancy which then recruited large numbers of
academics and has been guiding their participation to sway an online forum
organised to prepare for the Montreal meeting. This preparation has been
coordinated with the insider help of three of the main participants of that
upcoming UN meeting.

Yours sincerely
Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org

jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279
Twitter and Facebook: @Biosrp

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits
and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic
society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society
constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of
our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda

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