How can three activists in a room create enough noise to affect policy, the media and people’s lives? The people they represent are a tiny fraction of the people they affect. This is wrong!
Author: RiskMonger
Getting lost with a bad compass: Precaution and pesticides
Using precaution as an impulse is like using a broken compass: you’ll never actually know how lost you are. Why precaution does not work for pesticides.
In Defense of Open Dialogue
After a group of anti-GMO zealots got Facebook to remove a popular pro-science page, 12 science communicators speak out against this new form of unilateral censorship.
How to Deal with Stupid: Part 1/10 – Defining Stupid
Stupid is growing today via social media fear campaigns. How can we deal with it? Step 1: Define it
IARC’s Disgrace: How Low Can Activist Science Go?
We know that IARC’s political bias, non-transparency and conflict of interest on glyphosate were bad. But according to a recent publication, it is nothing compared to how bad their activist science was.
The Organic Shillbillies
For all the American farmers working through their Fourth of July Weekend and having to continually endure the closed-minded prejudice of the organic food industry lobby.
The Nobel Savage: Greenpeace’s Colonialist Ambitions
In 2013, Greenpeace inspired the destruction of Golden Rice trials. Today science declares their position as a crime against humanity.
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!
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