The Risk-Monger looks at the multiple health benefits from nicotine, and has decided that it is the right time in his life to start vaping.
Category: Governance
SlimeGate 3.2.3.2: Covering up Dissent on IARC’s 3rd Talc Monograph
IARC’s 3rd talc monograph did not reflect the experts’ dissent. Instead they covered it up to project a consensus.
How Environmental-Health Policy Got Scrooged
Mr Monger was visited by the Ghosts of Policy Past, Policy Present and Policy Yet to Come.
SlimeGate 2.3.3: The Litigation Finance Whistleblower Exposé Part 1
I interviewed a former litigation finance analyst willing to blow the whistle on the corrupt industry.
My Contribution to the European Commission Consultation on the EU’s Civil Society Funding Strategy
The EU has had a series of NGO funding scandals. They’re looking in the wrong places to answer the wrong questions.
The End of the Regulatory Cold War
The European Union has won the Regulatory Cold War and then quickly lost the peace.
The Key to Risk Management: Have a Plan
Risk is defined as hazard times exposure. But what drives us to tolerate certain exposures?
Redneck Science
With MAHA conspiracy theories becoming official US health policies, we need a new term for their regulatory science.
Lamenting the Loss of Lobbying
The death of engagement is changing policy management and leadership. Instead of lobbying, we have populism.
How Research Bias Leads to Bullshit
I was invited to participate in an “expert survey” that revealed some frightening bias built into the researchers’ agenda.
The End of Sustainability as a Core Western Value?
In a post-sustainability world, what values will replace this much maligned virtue?
On Hillbillies and Peasants
With the shitshow in Washington dictating all aspects of our lives across the globe, we need to ask how we can make it through the next 45 months.
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