Precaution is poisoning our ability to solve problems. My IUPAC keynote text.
Category: Agriculture
The Poison of Precaution: The Anti-Science Mindset
20 years of precaution has taught us to abandon science-based solutions.
SlimeGate 3/7: The Tort-Tort Scam 3/4: The True Believers
Tort-tort scientists are using lawsuits rather than evidence to ban products.
The Neonics Precaution Fail: How Farmers are Suffering from EU Regulatory Negligence
The EU precautionary ban on neonics has decimated this year’s crop.
SlimeGate 2/7: Predatorts 4/4: The Hypocrisy of the Honeypot
Why do NGOs celebrate a band of thieves who leave so many victims in their wake?
The Arrogance of Ignorance: Why the Activist Manifesto is Manifestly Wrong
A group of activists show why they are not qualified.
I show why they are wrong.
Europe’s Plant Breeding Exit: A Regulatory Failure
For years, the European Commission failed to act on NPBTs. Now they have failed Europe.
Generations of Farming
Our grandparents worked hard to deliver successful agriculture. What will we leave our children?
Requiem for Neonicotinoids: A Failure in European Leadership
The EU neonic ban was not about the bees, not about the science and not about sustainable farming.
So what was it about?
Michiel versus Goliath: True Cost or Truly Lying?
This is a story of how a Dutch farmer stood up to the lies of a lobbying organisation … and won!
A Message from the Big-6 Pesticide Companies to Green Activists: THANK YOU!!!
The Risk-Monger is breaking with tradition and publishing an article he did not write. But he fully supports the content and hopes people give this some thought (and a smile).
“Poisoning Paradise” Film Review: When lawyers go to Hollywood
Another sad documentary produced to please naturopaths, but also to prep juries for the litigation season.
