Activists are pushing their version of citizen science on regulators as an alternative to proper academic research.
Category: Precautionary Principle
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?
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.
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?
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.
Fighting the Myths of Isogluphosphate
Isogluphosphate is not dangerous. Banning it will devastate EU snack production.
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.
