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Activist Creep also Matters. An Open Letter to EFSA Director Hubert Deluyker

EFSA needs to account for conflicts of interest of NGO activists involved on their corrupted draft Bee Guidance Document. At least they could give me the courtesy of answering my question.

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The Pesticide Industry’s Moral Dilemma

The pesticide industry has to choose between moral integrity or defending its products from attacks by the NGO activists and organic food industry lobby and allowing conventional farmers to bring...

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Media Hypocrisy: Marketing Emotions, Ignoring Facts on Cancer Findings

The media ignored IARC's cancer risks from red meat, but not their report on glyphosate. Why is there no outrage? Perhaps because news today is decided by marketing managers measuring what we want to...

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Dave Goulson: Portrait of an Activist Scientist 

As NGOs are funding more activist science, we need to consider whether this research is worthy to be included in policy debates, or if bias is built into the methodology. Dave Goulson is an activist...

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The Risk-Monger’s Dirty Dozen – 12 highly toxic pesticides approved for use...

Most people think that organic produce is pesticide-free. This is what the organic food lobby wants you to think, but the reality is that they are often more toxic to humans, bees and the environment....

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How to Deal with Stupid: Part 1/10 – Defining Stupid

Part 1 of a 10-part series, Stupid needs to be redefined. As social media outpaces governance structures, stupid proliferates, creating bad policy, public fear and a decline in the value of expertise.

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How to Deal with Stupid: Part 2/10 – Social Media: How stupid gets its wings

Part 2 in the ten-part series on how to deal with stupid looks at how stupid gets its wings. With the growth of social media, bad ideas, virally spread and well repeated in a form of mass-messaging, do...

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How to Deal with Stupid Part 3/10: Eco-fundamentalism: The rise of...

Eco-fundamentalism is a religious dogma that allows stupid to thrive via a naturalogic that puts faith over evidence.

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COP-OUT-21: Celebrating mediocrity in the Paris Agreement

The COP-21 Paris Agreement was mediocre and meaningless - why the celebration? Someone should read the report!

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How to Deal with Stupid Part 4/10: The Activist Playbook: How Stupid Keeps...

The Activist Playbook presents a simple tool that anyone can use to win campaigns (even if your issue is stupid). There are 12 simple steps that we can find in most NGO campaigns.

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‘Twas the week before Christmas

For those who hate Christmas, I hope that during this season of joy and good cheer, you would just, for once, lighten up!

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How to Deal with Stupid Part 5/10: Commonality – How Stupid Sounds Believable

Why do people willingly believe nonsense? How is it possible for people to convince others to act without facts, evidence or rationality? Commonality is a communications process developed to deceive -...

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How to Deal with Stupid – Part 6/10: The Denormalisation of Industry

Part 6 deals with Stupid's strategy to remove industry from being a legitimate actor or stakeholder in policy debates. They have been very successful in denormalising tobacco, now fossil fuels and...

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10 Reasons why Glyphosate is Good

NGOs, activist scientists, organic lobbyists and IARC have been campaigning to ban glyphosate in the EU with no scientific evidence but a lot of public fear. In the Age of Stupid, they will succeed,...

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IARC’s unprofessional and unethical behaviour. Time to retract their...

In my second part of this glyphosate series, I look at how and why IARC published a report that the scientific community could not accept. Because of IARC’s unprofessional and unethical behaviour, I...

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The Pre-Glyphosate Generation: I was a Child Labourer

Herbicides have taken children off of the fields; the glyphosate ban will put them back. Will NGO activists send their children into the fields or will they snap back like hypocrites?

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Juicing the Numbers: Could Number-mongering be Stupid’s Last Stand?

Certain activists are using Pesticide Action Week to create scary numbers on how pesticides and other chemicals have a greater cost to society than they are worth. Their numbers don't add up. Is this...

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The Risk-Monger’s Submission to the EU Transparency Register Consultation

The Risk-Monger participated in the EU Transparency Register Consultation. He would like to see clear definitions of how academics and scientists lobby, create a Registry for journalists, have a...

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IARCgate for Dummies: Three Reasons this WHO Agency’s Glyphosate Campaign is...

How to simplify IARCgate - a complicated scandal that may change the way science-based policy will be conducted in future

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Make Every Sunday a Car-Free Day

A Car-Free Day every Sunday is a no-brainer - it would improve urban life, reduce respiratory health, increase health and fitness levels and significantly cut CO2 emissions. So why don't we do it....

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