Germans want to tax technology to fund activists who want to stop technology … Hmm.
Category: Precautionary Principle
Europe’s Plant Breeding Exit: A Regulatory Failure
For years, the European Commission failed to act on NPBTs. Now they have failed Europe.
Generations of Farming
Our grandparents worked hard to deliver successful agriculture. What will we leave our children?
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?
Diagnosing “Natural Nathalie”: A Case Study in Naturopathosis and Dogmatic Zealot Complex
Sociopaths who impose their naturopathic cult dogma through illogical tools like precaution need to be clinically studied.
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.
Glyphosate: What the Zealots Really Wanted
Glyphosate’s authorisation was renewed today, but let’s not lose sight of the big picture. The zealots want to destroy the EU regulatory process.
Transparocrites: How Transparency Hypocrites Live with Themselves
Activists who demand that others be transparent are often not open themselves. They are transparocrites.
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?
