The Risk-Monger is fed up with anti-industry rants from ignorant zealots, so he offers one himself!
Category: Governance
How to use a child
If we speak out against child labour and child soldiers, why do we tolerate activists using child lobbyists?
Evolutions in Trust, Part 1: Blockchain Trust
Trust in authorities and experts is declining. So how do we trust? By all of us observing and rating everyone and everything.
Ten Practices Linking Environmentalism with Fascism
We should not be surprised that the German Greens may work with the far right AfD. The Greens have always been a bit fascist.
Transparocrites: How Transparency Hypocrites Live with Themselves
Activists who demand that others be transparent are often not open themselves. They are transparocrites.
Why Transparency is not a Virtue
We are told today if we are transparent, all is good. Some truly awful people are transparent. Wither personal privacy.
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.
My Wishlist for the New Head of IARC
How to rebuild IARC after Chris Wild’s sudden departure.
Seven Reasons the EU’s Use of the Precautionary Principle is Misguided
What is wrong with the precautionary principle? What is right about it?
IARCgate: Six Reasons Why IARC’s Head, Christopher Wild, must be Fired
IARC is a sinking battleship. Should its captain go down with it, or resign and let others try to save it?
The Possibilist Principle: How Brussels Became a Hazard-based Activist Playground
How did we ever get to the madness of a hazard-based precautionary policy approach? Through those relentless possibilists.
