IARC’s recent letter to the US Congress showed six different ways to lie.
Category: Transparency
Dear Santa, … I can explain!
The 2017 Risk-Monger “Lump of Coal” Awards
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.
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.
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?
Greed, Lies and Glyphosate: The Portier Papers
Portier was paid $160K to attack glyphosate by lawyers suing Monsanto.
EU Funding of NGOs: Europarl Debate follow-up.
In today’s Europarl event on EU funding of NGOs, I presented a case study of how Friends of the Earth is abusing the Commission’s lack of scrutiny.
Green Slime: An Exposé into the Murky Collusion between NGOs and Members of the European Parliament
An exposé into a secret meeting between NGOs and public officials who strategised how to use agri-tech company mergers to promote their pro-organic interests.
BeeGate Revisited Part 2: The IUCN’s Activist Science Bee-Team: Who’s Who and Who’s Funding Them
This blog was Part 2 of what became known as the BeeGate trilogy. Originally published on 10 December 2014, it exposed the low qualifications of many of the activist bee scientists and the anti-industry, pro-organic organisations funding them. As EFSA is about to advise on the temporary neonicotinoid precautionary ban, I think it is a good idea…
BeeGate Revisited: IUCN’s Anti-Neonic Pesticide Taskforce: An exposé into activist science
Activist scientists had a strategy document on how they could manipulate the process to ban neonics. I found it.
Disrupting the Disruptors: Restructuring in the Activist World
Things are not looking too rosy for the big NGOs. Being crowded out of a market they had established, losing touch with online communities and grassroots support, having gurus steal their issues, seeing the nature of the game in Brussels change …
