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....
View ArticleHow 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.
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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.
View ArticleCOP-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!
View ArticleHow 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.
View Article‘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!
View ArticleHow 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 -...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article10 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,...
View ArticleIARC’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...
View ArticleThe 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?
View ArticleJuicing 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...
View ArticleIARC-gate: How NOT to represent science at the international level
IARC (the International Agency for Research on Cancer) has fallen to a new low on any scale of research integrity. Yesterday it used an anti-industry, anti-pesticides journalist to defend its position...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleIARCgate 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
View ArticleMake 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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