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Category: Neonicotinoids

How Should Risk Managers be Held Accountable for their Failed Policies?

Precautionary Principle pretends to be blameless. It’s not and it needs scrutiny.

The Poison of Precaution: The Anti-Science Mindset

20 years of precaution has taught us to abandon science-based solutions.

The Neonics Precaution Fail: How Farmers are Suffering from EU Regulatory Negligence

The EU precautionary ban on neonics has decimated this year’s crop.

How SumOfUs Manipulate and Deceive Vulnerable People

SumOfUs is an ethical train wreck. They’ll easily deceive and manipulate if it means increasing micro-donations.

Requiem for Neonicotinoids: A Failure in European Leadership

The EU neonic ban was not about the bees, not about the science and not about sustainable farming.
So what was it about?

Neonicotinoids: EFSA’s coded plea for help

When Juncker forces a bad tool on his scientists, don’t be surprised if they cry out for help.

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.

They killed the cats! Precaution, superstition and eco-zealots 

In 17th century London, precaution led to the Great Plague. Today, a new religion of zealots are still using the same techniques similarly unaware of the consequences.

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.

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.

Time to Decide on Neonicotinoids: A Letter to European Commissioner Andriukaitis

Commissioner Andriukaitis left it to the JRC to assess the neonic ban. Conclusion: the 2013 ban was a failure. Time to retract!

My secret exchange on neonics with the European Commission

When an FOIA request was made for my email exchange with the EU on neonics, I thought I should share them in a blog. Enjoy!

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