The Risk-Monger

Are Pesticides Good or Bad?

An obvious answer to a question no mature person should be asking

Don’t read this blog if you have a high opinion of yourself and feel entitled to more than others.

If we speak out against child labour and child soldiers, why do we tolerate activists using child lobbyists?

IARC’s recent letter to the US Congress showed six different ways to lie.

The 2017 Risk-Monger “Lump of Coal” Awards

Trust in authorities and experts is declining. So how do we trust? By all of us observing and rating everyone and everything.

We should not be surprised that the German Greens may work with the far right AfD. The Greens have always been a bit fascist.

Glyphosate’s authorisation was renewed today, but let’s not lose sight of the big picture. The zealots want to destroy the EU regulatory process.

Activists who demand that others be transparent are often not open themselves. They are transparocrites.

We are told today if we are transparent, all is good. Some truly awful people are transparent. Wither personal privacy.

It’s time for the EU to commission a study on the use of the policy tools of ALARA and precaution.

Europe’s failure to renew a safe, beneficial herbicide is a clarion call to reassess the illegitimate, hazard-based precautionary principle.