Scientific Alliance

Scientific Alliance

The Scientific Alliance is a British industry-friendly organization that promotes biotechnology, genetically modified food, and climate change skepticism.

The group was created in 2001 by quarryman Robert Durward, director of the British Aggregates Association, and political consultant Mark Adams of the public relations firm, "Foresight Communications".

The Scotsman newspaper has reported that on contacting the Alliance to ask about Durward's role, 'after some uncertainty, the switchboard it shares with a number of other firms denied any knowledge of Mr Durward’s existence. Matthew Drinkwater, the one person responding to calls to its offices, could also be contacted by ringing the offices of Foresight Communications.'

Foresight Communications is a PR firm established by Mark Adams in January 2001. As well as The Scientific Alliance, its client list includes the British Aggregates Association and the New Party (formerly known as the Peoples Alliance (sic)) which was also established by Durward and Adams.

Although the group's privacy policy prevents it from revealing its funders, critics like Bob May of the Royal Society have alleged that the group is linked to the U.S. oil company, ExxonMobil.

The Alliance generally tries to take an impartial and rational attitude to opinions on questions such as climate change, emphasising that it is seldom good scientific practice to settle for a single hypothesis (however popular or supported it may be) but rather to honour Karl Popper's contention that any scientific hypothesis can only be truly scientific if it is open to falsification.

External links

* [http://www.scientific-alliance.org/the_debate_climate.htm The Scientific Alliance]
* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scientific_Alliance SourceWatch] , Center for Media & Democracy
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1399585,00.html Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change] , "The Guardian"
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4218957,00.html Hard Rockers] , "The Guardian"
* [http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=83662003&tid=733 The rich recluse masterminding Britain's new party] , "The Scotsman"


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