Paul Dacre

Paul Dacre is the current incumbant editor of the Daily Mail.  This man has the most control of any single person in the British media on UK science policy.  Perhaps single handedly, the Daily Mail has caused restrictions on the use of GM crops, spurious public health scares on vaccination (notably MMR) and a public obsession with classifying every known foodstuff into the category of “causes cancer” or “protects against cancer”.

For more information, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dacre#Criticism