Trust in authorities and experts is declining. So how do we trust? By all of us observing and rating everyone and everything.
Category: Lobbying / Public Affairs
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.
Seven Reasons the EU’s Use of the Precautionary Principle is Misguided
What is wrong with the precautionary principle? What is right about it?
Glyphosate in the Age of Stupid
How could a band of 50 activists manage to handcuff EU policy, destroy trust in science and affect the lives of 12 million EU farmers?
Greed, Lies and Glyphosate: The Portier Papers
Portier was paid $160K to attack glyphosate by lawyers suing Monsanto.
Carey Gillam: A Rachel Carson for our Time?
As anti-Monsanto carpetbagger Carey Gillam makes her 2nd paid trip to Brussels to lobby against glyphosate, we need to ask a few questions.
Memoirs of a Monsanto Shill
How I discovered the activists and Greens needed me to be their face of evil. Why I decided to stand with Monsanto.
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.
The Two Paths to Policy
Policy-makers today need to choose between the risk-based or hazard-based route to policy management.
