The government's chief scientific adviser criticised the BBC's Today programme and the Daily Mail yesterday over what he called their "campaigns" against GM food and the MMR vaccine. Sir David King said Britain's failure to adopt GM crops had cost the economy between £2bn and £4bn and that falling measles vaccination rates as a result of negative publicity about MMR would lead to between 50 and 100 child deaths. He singled out Today's lead presenter, John Humphrys, over the current affairs programme's editorial line on GM, saying: "What a massive shot in the foot that was for the UK economy." Humphrys is known for his enthusiasm for organic farming.
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