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Viewpoint: ‘Regulatory vigilantes’ — How former government scientists who are now high-paid ‘expert witnesses’ for predatory law firms use mass tort litigation to sidestep science

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Regulatory risk management process allowed policymakers to govern over the last 60 years of technological and industrial development ...
Viewpoint: BPA and phthalate hysteria — Venturing out of its knowledge zone, ‘Consumer Reports’ launches anti-chemical tirade on plastic food packaging

Viewpoint: BPA and phthalate hysteria — Venturing out of its knowledge zone, ‘Consumer Reports’ launches anti-chemical tirade on plastic food packaging

Genetic Literacy Project | 
If you want advice on which coffee maker or space heater to buy, Consumer Reports (CR) is where you go ...
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Viewpoint: What is sustainability? What are pesticides? The way media and politicians define ideologically diffuse words shape policy – often for the worse

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Reality is perceived by the definitions we give; the black and white lines we draw upon a grey canvas. So ...
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Viewpoint: Righteous Risks — Here’s how (and why) environmental advocacy groups misrepresent the risks from innovations but cynically ignore genuine dangers

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Synthetic pesticides are under constant regulatory pressure, but not organic pesticides. “Green” renewables and EVs have very little regulatory scrutiny ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-biotechnology, pro-organic dark money web — Tort lawyer-funded, Charles Benbrook-created Heartland Health Research Alliance co-opts academic and government institutions to subvert independent science

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The Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) an ideologically-focused research groups funded by ‘dark money’ support from the organic industry and ...
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Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology and chemical pseudo-science exposed — Here’s how the ‘dark money’, tort-lawyer funded Heartland Study dupes journalists and co-ops universities

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Until the 1990s, research was often low-budget, done in government agencies or industry funded. But as universities acquired expensive analytical ...
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Viewpoint: While environmentalists and journalists look the other way, anti-vax, pro-organic ‘dark money whore’ US Right to Know partners with organic food and tort lawyer hustlers to undermine science

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In the introduction to this Firebreak series on how foundations fund activists, I noted there were a wide variety of foundations: ...
How ideological foundations and ‘dark money’ seed activist environmental movement and undermine science

How ideological foundations and ‘dark money’ seed activist environmental movement and undermine science

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Time was that non-profits were funded by their membership dues or individual donations, loose change drums at airports and clipboard ...
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Viewpoint: Are ESG — environmental, social and governance — goals the next step in corporate citizenship or an activist imposition?

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Corporate ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) performance measurements have recently polarised the business community. Many see it as the next ...
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Viewpoint: Never heard of the Heartland Health Research Alliance? Here’s how the organic- and tort-lawyer funded sham research center generates disinformation about glyphosate and other farm chemicals

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Where would science be if an influential institute today was established by tort lawyers to produce research solely for use ...
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Viewpoint: Perversity activism — How European anti-biotechnology NGOs end up promoting commodity-crop farming, consolidating the seed market and undermining sustainability

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One of the most attractive advantages of NGTs is the low cost of entry for innovators. Labs in developing countries ...
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Viewpoint: Activists shift tactics on glyphosate, attacking independent European science-oversight agencies that have unanimously found the herbicide safe

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Glyphosate ate the world! Every single day another serious disease, from all types of cancer to Parkinson’s, is attributed to ...
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Glyphosate reauthorized for 10 years by divided EU

[November 16] the European Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF committee) was again unable to get a ...
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Viewpoint: 15 explanations for why activists lie and try to scare people about ‘killer’ chemicals, genetically engineered crops and nuclear energy

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We always hear NGOs saying that we cannot trust industry, that we have to exclude industry evidence or that industry ...
Viewpoint: How to restore public trust and regulatory fairness in the face of aggressive, coordinated disinformation efforts by anti-technology environmental activists

Viewpoint: How to restore public trust and regulatory fairness in the face of aggressive, coordinated disinformation efforts by anti-technology environmental activists

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During my lifetime, Western societies have enjoyed innovations that have immensely improved public health and the quality of life as ...
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Viewpoint: Sustainable, natural, chemical, toxic — Words used by activists to label agriculture can distort science and turn the public against sensible farming

Reality is perceived by the definitions we give; the black and white lines we draw upon a grey canvas. So, ...
Viewpoint: Simplistic anti-agrobiotech narrative — ‘Companies lie; activists are outraged; regulations are tightened further; companies lie again... Wash, rinse, repeat’

Viewpoint: Simplistic anti-agrobiotech narrative — ‘Companies lie; activists are outraged; regulations are tightened further; companies lie again… Wash, rinse, repeat’

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Today’s narrative has a simplistic view: Companies lie; activists are outraged; regulations are tightened further; companies lie again… Wash, rinse, ...
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Viewpoint: IARC’s aspartame report echoes globally-rejected glyphosate cancer determination

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Food additives like artificial sweeteners are relentlessly tested by health authorities, researchers, independent labs and activist scientists (while we rarely ...
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Viewpoint: How technology-rejectionist fearmongering poisons public opinion against farmers

Genetic Literacy Project | 
As other NGOs are stepping away from campaigning against gene editing, CEO is becoming the last loud voice of protest ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic is good’? — Greenwashing propagated by environmental advocacy group lobbyists and marketing-savvy green industry

Viewpoint: ‘Organic is good’? — Greenwashing propagated by environmental advocacy group lobbyists and marketing-savvy green industry

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Recent draft legislation on its way to the European Parliament and Council commonly known as the Greenwashing Directive (officially the Green Claims Directive) plans ...
Mythinformation: 'Fear campaigns from anti-biotech NGOs make it a challenge to even keep products on the market let alone introduce new technologies'

Mythinformation: ‘Fear campaigns from anti-biotech NGOs make it a challenge to even keep products on the market let alone introduce new technologies’

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Technological innovations in plant breeding can address serious issues from climate resilience to biodiversity decline to sustainable intensification to feed ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Imposing impoverishment’ — How European leadership has failed by promoting ideological solutions to sustainability challenges in farming

Genetic Literacy Project | 
It is hard to find anyone with anything positive to say about 2022: economic, social, ethical, political, geopolitical success stories ...
Viewpoint: Subverting the science of crop biotechnology — Leaked document from German NGO illustrates 'scandalous' strategy by anti-biotech activists to manipulate the public

Viewpoint: Subverting the science of crop biotechnology — Leaked document from German NGO illustrates ‘scandalous’ strategy by anti-biotech activists to manipulate the public

Genetic Literacy Project | 
A leaked internal document from the German anti-biotech NGO community recently found its way to the Risk-Monger’s dusty basement. As ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-chemical film polemic “Into the Weeds” is wrong on the facts but a tort lawyer’s dream. Did lawyers and the organic industry fund it?

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The organic food industry lobby was in full swing in Brussels with their StopGlyphosateWeek. A collective of NGOs ran an ...
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Viewpoint: How tort lawyers came to fund environmental activist fundamentalist attacks on science and agriculture

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Since the period of stakeholder dialogue in the 1990s and early 2000s, environmental activists engaged in the policy process to ...
Viewpoint: How Environmental—Social—Governance (ESG) screens can be manipulated to promote misleading science and damage sustainability efforts

Viewpoint: How Environmental—Social—Governance (ESG) screens can be manipulated to promote misleading science and damage sustainability efforts

Genetic Literacy Project | 
While the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investor point system has had a bit of a rough time over the ...
Viewpoint: Innovation vs. extreme precaution — What should drive science regulation and policy in Europe?

Viewpoint: Innovation vs. extreme precaution — What should drive science regulation and policy in Europe?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
People like me often claim we need science-based policy. Regulations have to follow the best available evidence and European agencies ...
Viewpoint: What role should industry have in refashioning Europe’s food system?

Viewpoint: What role should industry have in refashioning Europe’s food system?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
I feel like Brussels is a puzzle where the pieces keep changing. The best way to start a puzzle is ...
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