Editing Daily Mail (section)

===Gay gene controversy===
On 16 July 1993, the ''Mail'' ran the headline "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding".<ref>{{cite news|author=Steve Connor|title=The 'gay gene' is back on the scene|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-gay-gene-is-back-on-the-scene-1536770.html|location=UK|date=1 November 1995|access-date=30 April 2010|work=The Independent|archive-date=15 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115183231/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-gay-gene-is-back-on-the-scene-1536770.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Shea|first1=Matthew|last2=Lewis|first2=Jacob|title=We Spent Yesterday Talking to People Who Are Hated by the Daily Mail|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-are-tired-of-being-bullied-by-the-daily-mail/|access-date=29 June 2015|publisher=[[VICE News]]|date=7 October 2013|quote=It's the latest nasty accusation to be levelled at a 'paper that has a long history of this kind of thing – the Miliband controversy joining an outrage canon that includes Jan Moir's smear of the dead gay popstar Stephen Gately, and headlines like "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding" and "Muslim gang jailed for kidnapping and raping two girls as part of their Eid celebrations".|archive-date=27 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227070938/http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/people-are-tired-of-being-bullied-by-the-daily-mail|url-status=live}}</ref> Of the tabloid headlines which commented on the [[Xq28]] gene, the Mail's was criticised as "perhaps the most infamous and disturbing headline of all".<ref>{{cite book|title = The nature of difference: science, society, and human biology|author = George T. H. Ellison and Alan H. Goodman|publisher = Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Wellcome Trust|year = 2006|page = 106|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r-b3sJvXBj0C&pg=PA106|isbn = 978-0-8493-2720-9|access-date = 10 November 2020|archive-date = 26 April 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130426101749/http://books.google.com/books?id=r-b3sJvXBj0C&pg=PA106|url-status = live}}</ref>