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Category: Glyphosate
Europe’s Plant Breeding Exit: A Regulatory Failure
For years, the European Commission failed to act on NPBTs. Now they have failed Europe.
How to Kill Dialogue
Pt 3 of the Insignificant Trilogy. Green activists are controlling policy debates by denying other voices in stakeholder dialogue.
Evolutions in Trust, Part 2: Blockchain (Citizen) Science
Activists are pushing their version of citizen science on regulators as an alternative to proper academic research.
Naturopathic Cult Populism
A wave of anti-vaxx, pro-organic, alternative medicine populists are leading us over a cliff.
Are Pesticides Good or Bad?
An obvious answer to a question no mature person should be asking
IARCgate: Shouldn’t IARC Stop Lying?
IARC’s recent letter to the US Congress showed six different ways to lie.
Dear Santa, … I can explain!
The 2017 Risk-Monger “Lump of Coal” Awards
Glyphosate: What the Zealots Really Wanted
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.
Transparocrites: How Transparency Hypocrites Live with Themselves
Activists who demand that others be transparent are often not open themselves. They are transparocrites.
ALARA : An alternative policy tool to the precautionary principle
It’s time for the EU to commission a study on the use of the policy tools of ALARA and precaution.
Glyphosate and the Regulatory Failure of Precaution
Europe’s failure to renew a safe, beneficial herbicide is a clarion call to reassess the illegitimate, hazard-based precautionary principle.