This event attempts to bring farmers into the debate on food. Activists want to ban agri-technologies, but maybe farmers should have a say!
A personal invitation to Vandana Shiva: Listen to Farmers!
Vandana Shiva rarely listens. 200m from the Monsanto Tribunal, we will have farmers speaking about why they need agri-tech. Will she listen?
Glyphosate: How to fix IARC
My solution to fix IARC is to pull its funding. As I publish this, the US is proposing to do just that!
The Voice of Farmers at the Monsanto Tribunal
See the Risk-Monger’s event at the Monsanto Tribunal. Attend, donate to the costs and send a message to the Organic Consumers Association!
How to Deal with Stupid: Part 2/10 – Social Media: How stupid gets its wings
The Age of Stupid has grown from social media, with anecodotes from non-experts repeated and reinforced, creating trust (and opportunity) among the vulnerable.
Generation AIDS
I came of age during the AIDS crisis – we need to understand how that event has shaped the leaders now in power.
An Apology to my Great Grandchildren
After the Precautionary Purge and the ReReasonabilisation, we still leave our great grandchildren with a famished world. Time for an apology.
IARC’s Glyphosate Debacle: Sinking deeper into their pit of hypocrisy
IARC says they are transparent – they are not! They say their scientists have no conflicts of interest – they do! They say their scientific methodology is the strongest – no one else agrees. This is hypocrisy!
How to Milk a Bull! Bad bee science and activist capture at the FT
A UK research centre uses bad data to correlate neonics to wild bee decline, and then Friends of the Earth captures the FT to save the bees. How do you spell “Stupid”?
Size Doesn’t Matter: How little NGOs pretend to represent the people
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!
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.
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