Global media reported on the 636 industry lobbyists at COP27. They were tricked.
Tag: Corporate Europe Observatory
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.
Size Doesn’t Matter: How little NGOs pretend to represent the people
How can three activists in a room create enough noise to affect policy, the media and people’s lives? The people they represent are a tiny fraction of the people they affect. This is wrong!
Reasonable People – Towards a New Age of Lobbying
Industry needs to rethink its lobbying strategy as reasonable people and independent scientists start taking the lead in responding to activist campaigns.
How to win without science: argumentum ad hominem
Argumentum ad hominem is the tool you use when there is no science on your side. Is that why activists are using it so much today?
Do Facts Matter?
Re-publication of a blog from 2010, ten years after a series of projects were launched to try to bring facts back into policy debates and press coverage. The Risk-Monger hung his head in shame and admitted defeat.
Brussels: A town where nobody works
Decisions on jobs and growth are made by people who have never worked; decisions on food made by people who have never farmed. Welcome to Brussels!
IARC’s Glyphosate Publication – Another Organisation Captured by NGO Activist Shills
This is the first blog on IARC’s glyphosate monograph – a year later, we see how Portier has poisoned the well of cooperation between scientific assessment agencies.
Corporate Europe Hypocrisy
A blog from 2010 on how a transparency group is not very transparent. There are three and half years of comments and shared data from readers who found this hypocrisy fascinating.
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