In 2013, Greenpeace inspired the destruction of Golden Rice trials. Today science declares their position as a crime against humanity.
Year: 2016
Living in the Age of Stupid: How to comprehend Brexit, Trump and the Anti’s
Everyone keeps asking how is it possible? Simple: This is the age we are living in!
Banalising the Risk Perception of Endocrine Disruption
Two decades of nonsense on endocrine disruption has brought good business to chemophobic NGOs, but a rather pointless fear for the rest of us. The issue needs to be “banalised”.
Please Don’t Throw Greenpeace in Prison
Resolute has charged Greenpeace with racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. We know they do not follow ethical codes of conduct, but let’s not make them martyrs!
Risk Aversion and the Curse of Expediency
Expediency: the “art of making something go away” has become the main political virtue in Brussels. This has allowed contrapreneurs to win on issues.
Endocrine corruption: Soy’s dirty little secret
The activists’ endocrine argument against pesticides and plastics ain’t worth a hill of beans, but the hypocrisy is rich!
My Sperm is Fine – The Myth of Endocrine Disruption
What happens if an activist scientist does a study on sperm decline and the facts conflict with the dogma? Simple – you don’t publish the data! But someone else did!
How to Starve Africa: Ask the European Green Party
The Europeans have the watches; the Africans have the time. Today, the European Green Party passed an initiative in the European Parliament to make Africa wait for at least another generation to be able to lift itself out of poverty.
Goodbye Glyphosate: Why Science Doesn’t Matter in the Age of Stupid
Next week, the European Council will consider the European Commission’s last-ditch compromise effort to reauthorise the widely used herbicide, glyphosate. It won’t go well.
Time to ban coffee? How values dictate our use of precaution
Given that IARC is about to declare coffee as carcinogenic (again), I think we need to play with the fallacy that, on the basis of a mere hazard assessment, we need to act as risk managers and organise a ban on all coffee products!
What is Innovation and Why is it so Hard?
Does Europe understand what innovation is? Do we share an entrepreneurial spirit across Europe or are we hidebound by contrapreneurs? Do we need an “Innovation Principle”?
Reasonable People – Towards a New Age of Lobbying
Industry needs to rethink its lobbying strategy as reasonable people and independent scientists start taking the lead in responding to activist campaigns.
The Risk-Monger 