Bill Macfarlane Smith
UK
Honorary research fellow at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) and part of pro-GM lobby group CropGen.
Profiles: Powerbase
Links to: CropGen, John Hillman, Scottish Crop Research Institute
Mary Mangan
USA
Notorious troll who was exposed working with Jay Byrne, a PR operative whose clients have included Monsanto, CropLife, and Syngenta. Advisor to Cornell Alliance for Science. Writer for Genetic Literacy Project and Biofortified - organisations Monsanto considered its "industry partners". Sometimes identifies in posts and social media as @mem_somerville.
Profiles: SourceWatch
Articles: Monsanto's Spies
Once Aligned to Fight for Monsanto
Monsanto mouthpieces use copyright claims "to hide their trail of industry deceit"
Latest Online Trolling Tactic
Links to: Jay Byrne, Stephan Neidenbach, Kevin Folta, Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, Biofortified, Sarah Evanega, (Cornell) Alliance for Science
Bernard Marantelli
UK
Former Monsanto PR man who helped PR firm Lexington Communications with its work for the the biotech industry lobby group, the Agricultural Biotechnology Council.
Profiles: Powerbase
Links to: Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Mike Craven, Lexington Communications, Monsanto
Cathie Martin UK
Fellow of the Royal Society and a senior scientist at the John Innes Centre. Founder with Jonathan Jones of Norfolk Plant Sciences, the UK's first GM crop company, which has commercialised Martin's GM purple tomato.
Articles: As GM purple tomato goes on sale to home gardeners in US, dubious cancer claims reappear
See also: Jonathan Jones, John Innes Centre, Royal Society, Sainsbury Laboratory
Mike May
UK
With Alan Dewar, May featured in a conflict-of-interest scandal over GM crop trials.
Profiles: Powerbase
Articles: Test Experts Paid By GM Crop Firm
Links to: Alan Dewar, Rothamsted Research
Robert May
UK
Former UK government chief scientific advisor who was president of the Royal Society 2000-2005. Co-authored one of four reports rushed out in an attempt to discredit the research of Dr Arpad Pusztai.
Profiles: Powerbase
Book chapter: The 'Star Chamber' (Chapter 6 of Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat, by Andy Rowell)
Links to: Royal Society, Peter Lachmann, Brian Heap, Aaron Klug
Alan McHughen
USA
Canadian GM researcher at the University of California, Riverside who repeated Dennis Avery's E.coli myths about organic food.
Profiles: Powerbase
Links to: American Council on Science and Health, Dennis Avery, Hudson Institute
Sue Meek
Australia
Australia's first GM regulator. Her long career involved various posts promoting biotech.
Profiles: Powerbase
Matt Metz
USA
Microbiologist who played a part in attempting to discredit Ignacio Chapela's research showing GM contamination of Mexican maize.
Profiles: Powerbase
Links to: AgBioWorld, Gregory Conko, Liberty Institute, Barun Mitra, Channapatna S. Prakash
Henry I Miller
USA
Avid GM promoter with multiple links to rightwing lobby groups and think tanks like the Hoover Institution, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Also founder director of the US Food and Drug Administration's Office of Biotechnology. Co-author with Gregory Conko of CEI of the book, The Frankenfood Myth. Had articles he authored and co-authored deleted by Forbes and Project Syndicate after he was caught using a column ghost-written by Monsanto as his own work in Forbes. He has also authored and co-authored articles for the industry front group the American Council on Science and Health. On the editorial board of GM Crops & Food. Also known for defending the tobacco industry, the pesticide industry and the plastics industry, as well as denying climate change.
Profiles: SourceWatch and USRTK and Powerbase
Articles: Monsanto Emails Raise Issue of Influencing Research on Roundup Weed Killer
Smelling a Corporate Rat
Some GMO Cheerleaders Also Deny Climate Change
Seedy Business: key front groups and shills
Links to: Drew Kershen, Kavin Senapathy, Julie Kelly, Gregory Conko, American Council on Science and Health, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Michael Fumento, Hudson Institute, Steven Milloy, Elizabeth Whelan, NoMoreScares, GM Crops & Food.
Steve ('The Junkman') Milloy
USA
Former Monsanto lobbyist, tobacco lobbyist, Fox News columnist, and founder and publisher of the Junk Science website. Fronted NoMoreScares.com and StopLabelingLies. Close friend and collaborator of Michael Fumento.
Profiles: SourceWatch and Powerbase
Links to: Cato Institute, Michael Fumento, NoMoreScares, StopLabelingLies
Barun Mitra
India
Founder and director of the anti-regulation think tank, the Liberty Institute. Lobbied for the entry of GM cotton into India.
Profiles: Powerbase
Links to: International Policy Network, Sharad Joshi, Liberty Institute
Maurice Moloney
Ireland, USA
Founder and Managing Partner, Agritecknowledge LLC. Formerly Director of Rothamsted Research. Also led the Food, Health and Life Science Industries Group in CSIRO.
Profile: Powerbase
Articles: 'Science one, whining greenies nil', Smelling a corporate rat
Links to: CSIRO, Rothamsted Research, Monsanto, Science Media Centre, Sense About Science, Tracey Brown
Monsanto
USA
Biggest seller of GM crops with terrible toxic legacy. Now owned by Bayer, which also has a terrible record of corporate crimes.
Profiles: GMWatch
Resources: GMWatch
Articles: "Definitive historical account" of Monsanto provides motherlode of valuable material
Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide
Made by Monsanto: the Corporate Shaping of GM Crops as a Technology for the Poor
Links to: Bivings Group, Jay Byrne, Robb Fraley, Robert Shapiro, Hugh Grant, Rob Horsch, Alison Van Eenennaam, Kevin Folta, Robert Paarlberg, Bayer
Marc Van Montagu
Belgium
Former President of the European Federation of Biotechnolgy (EFB), which has an extensive corporate membership. President of PRRI. Co-founder of biotech firm CropDesign, owned at one time by BASF, and of Plant Genetic Systems, later acquired by Bayer.
Article: UN launches biotech network for developing countries
How Public are the Public Researchers of PRRI
Links to: PRRI, EFB
Patrick Moore
Canada
Early member of Greenpeace who subsequently worked as a spin doctor for corporations engaged in environmental destruction. Denies that humans cause climate change or that increases in CO2 are problematic. Like Owen Paterson, Mark Lynas, Bjorn Lomborg, Stewart Brand and others, Moore has used golden rice as a PR weapon for attacking the environmental movement, most obviously through founding the campaign Allow Golden Rice Now! Has done paid work for the industry trade group the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.
Profiles: Powerbase and SourceWatch
Video: Lobbyist Claims Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe To Drink, Freaks Out When Offered A Glass
Articles: The man who unmasked Patrick Moore
GMO supporters promote climate denialist and corporate front man as champion of science
Why Patrick Moore calls GMWatch "a bunch of murdering bastards"
What do climate denial and promoting GMOs have in common?
Patrick Moore's Golden Rice campaign featured on the BBC
The great ventriloquist, The Bromance Continues: Kevin Folta Hearts Patrick Moore
Links to: Allow Golden Rice Now!, Kevin Folta, AgBioWorld, Owen Paterson, Mark Lynas, Stewart Brand, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
Julian Morris
UK
Formerly key player on environmental issues with Roger Bate at the pro-corporate think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs. Director of the International Policy Network (2001-2011), where Roger Bate also worked for a time, as did Morris's wife Kendra Okonski. Also directed the short-lived Sustainable Development Network. Senior Fellow of the Reason Foundation.
Profiles: Powerbase
Articles: The Fake Parade
Links to: Roger Bate, Institute of Economic Affairs, International Policy Network, Martin Livermore, Barun Mitra, Philip Stott, Kendra Okonski, Sustainable Development Network
Shane Morris
Canada
Irish-born former Canadian government bureaucrat. Internationally condemned for co-authoring a paper that's been described as a "flagrant fraud", and for legal threats against the GMWatch and GM-Free Ireland websites after they reported on the scandal.
Profiles: Powerbase
Links to: Doug Powell
Vivian Moses
UK
Founding member and chairman of the biotech industry funded lobby group CrogGen until his death in 2017. Was on the advisory panels of Sense About Science and the Scientific Alliance.
Profiles: Powerbase
Links to: CropGen, Scientific Alliance, Sense About Science
Philip Mullineaux
UK
Principal research scientist at the John Innes Centre and former GM regulator.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: John Innes Centre, Chris Lamb
Luke Mumba
Zambia
Interim chairman of the pro-GM Biotechnology Outreach Society of Zambia.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Biotechnology Outreach Society of Zambia, T. J. Buthelezi
Mary Murphy
USA
Email front for black propaganda attacks on GM critics. Traced to the Bivings Group, a PR firm that worked for Monsanto.
Profiles: Powerbase
Articles: Immoral Maize, The Fake Persuaders
See also: AgBioView, AgBioWorld, Bivings Group, C. S. Prakash, Andura Smetacek
Noreen Murray UK
Professor emeritus at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the council of the Biotechnology and Biolgical Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Chair of the Royal Society group that rushed out a critical "peer review" of Arpad Pusztai's research on GM foods, even though the group did not have the full data.
Profiles: Powerbase
Book chapter: The 'Star Chamber' (Chapter 6 of Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat, by Andy Rowell)
See also: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Derek Burke, Royal Society, Anthony Trewavas, Peter Lachmann, Brian Heap, Aaron Klug