The inherent negativity of risk
In this third and last part of the summer back-to-basics risk blogs, the Risk-Monger examines why risks are perceived as negative and how reactionary risk management (post event, post-precautionary)...
View ArticleLate Lessons from Early Warnings II: How the EEA is trying to disguise...
The European Environment Agency released the second tomb of Late Lessons from Early Warnings last week. It appears that this EU Agency is continuing its campaigning and activism for the precautionary...
View ArticleThe European Commission’s Plan Bee: Attack of the Killer Bureaucrats
The European Commission is proposing to ban certain pesticides under the precautionary principle without adequate consideration of available science or concern for the potential catastrophic...
View ArticleLate Lessons 2 and the Great Precaution False Positive Pooh-Pooh
It is time for the European Environment Agency (EEA) to get serious and not let their activist dogma guide their publicly funded “research”. In their second version of Late Lessons from Early Warnings...
View ArticleBeeswax! Is Something Rotten in the State of SANCO?
Something went very wrong earlier this year with how DG SANCO pushed through a precautionary ban on neonicotinoid pesticides to "save the bees", in a period of four months, without proper evidence,...
View ArticleIt’s about Innovation – Deal with it! An open letter to Corporate Europe...
Dear CEO, I am really ready to give up. I have written to you, and about you, many times hoping to get you to see things more objectively. I have even offered to come to your offices (at no charge) and...
View ArticleNormative Reflux: How values dictate our use of precaution
The Risk-Monger shows that if the implementation of the precautionary principle were rational, then coffee would need to be banned. Fortunately, in this case, normative reflux steps in - our values and...
View ArticleThe “Save the Bees” Ban: Failed Crops and another Precautionary Fail: Who is...
The recent precautionary ban on neonicotinoid pesticides to save the bees has gone badly wrong in less than a year. Oilseed rape crops are being devastated and Member States are now allowing neonics to...
View ArticleThe Bee-Sting: Activist Scientists and the Abuse of Power
The third and final activist bee science blog looks at how activist scientists have got into government panels like EFSA and are changing the way risk assessments are done. Laden with conflicts of...
View ArticleThe Logic of Risks
Are Naturalist Nutters showing signs of inconsistency or of a sudden logical outburst when they criticise those who do not vaccinate? Hardly - they are exhibiting a perfectly justifiable illogic that...
View ArticleBees may sting, but bee campaigners prick
May is parade month in Brussels, but one cannot help but already notice the impressive parade of stupid marching through this town, and nowhere more can this be better exemplified than in the...
View ArticleA tale of two precautions
Precaution as a policy tool has been manipulated to meet activist agendas. On climate and GMOs, we see two different, contradictory perceptions of precaution applied. How can activists deal with this...
View ArticleThey killed the cats! Precaution, superstition and eco-zealots
The Great Plague of London showed the precautionary principle at its worst when they killed the cats. Today environmental zealots seem to find delight in "drowning kittens".
View ArticleRisk-based or Hazard-based Regulation
What is the difference between the risk-based regulatory approach and a hazard-based one? Why is it that hazard-based activists are so successful in pushing such an unrealistic approach?
View ArticleThe Growing Risk of Contrapreneurs
An expedient policy process relying on precaution and hazard-based regulations has allowed contrapreneurs to cement their anti-innovation strategy at the heart of Brussels
View ArticleRisk Aversion and the Curse of Expediency
This is the third in a series that looked at how the hazard-based regulatory approach has led to the contrapreneur pushing the precautionary principle to challenge the achievements of entrepreneurs....
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.
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