Policy-makers today need to choose between the risk-based or hazard-based route to policy management.
Category: Glyphosate
When Activists Pretend to be Journalists: Stéphane Horel and her Monsanto Rage
When an activist pretends to be a journalist and asks you questions, keep a copy and publish it so others can see the source.
Glypho-nicotinoids and “Junck-Science”: Who is Really Responsible for EU Food Safety Regulations?
Junck-science: the art of creating scientific disagreement so that undesired evidence and facts can be ignored and kept out of the policy process for as long as possible.
Glyphosate, Beer and Monsanto: An interview with the BfR’s Roland Solecki
Roland Solecki, the head of pesticide safety at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), gave the Süddeutsche Zeitung an honest interview on glyphosate.
Carpetbaggers: American NGO Activists in Brussels
American NGOs have discovered that Brussels is the ideal place to launch a US lobby campaign. Hippie Go Home!
GlyphoSafe: Eight points for European Commissioner Andriukaitis on Glyphosate
Here is how Commissioner Andriukaitis needs to act following ECHA’s decision that glyphosate is safe!
Green Slime: An Exposé into the Murky Collusion between NGOs and Members of the European Parliament
An exposé into a secret meeting between NGOs and public officials who strategised how to use agri-tech company mergers to promote their pro-organic interests.
The Risk-Monger’s Top 10 Worst Moments of 2016: The Year of Stupid!
My Top 10 Stupidest Moments of 2016. How I wish 2017 would be reasonable.
How to Deal with Stupid, Part 4/10: The Activist Playbook: How Stupid Keeps Winning
Stupid can win if it is clever. NGOs have developed an Activist Playbook – a means to take stupid ideas and strategically implement a campaign to successfully affect policy.
Is IARC Fit for Purpose?
IARC has continued to slide into an crisis of legitimacy. Recent unethical, biased behaviour has left the agency no longer fit for purpose.
Monsanto Tribunal: Research on the Testimonies
If journalists are actually covering the fake €500,000 Monsanto stunt in The Hague, they can use research on the testimonies in this blog.
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!
