David Zaruk, as The Risk-Monger, challenges confirmation bias. Fighting activist zealots. Fighting for farmers. Fighting cardiovascular disease and arthritis.
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Next month SCOTUS will hear Suncor v Boulder County.
This isn't Boulder County serving its voters. This is a campaign by the strategic litigation NGO, @EarthRightsIntl, funded by big foundations to hire law firms to disrupt business via climate lawfare.
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Policy commentator David @Zaruk is calling for an ethics review of EU health chief @OliverVarhelyi over his wife’s work for Hungarian MEPs. His allegations concern disclosure and potential conflicts of interest. Read the full story>> clearingtheair.eu/post/eu-he…
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California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, keeps showing up on news programs to amplify his attacks on companies like Meta and Paramount.
Why don't the journalists do their job and ask him how much he's getting paid by interest groups?
It isn't rocket science
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We talk about how NGOs work to manipulate the narrative, using foundation funding to buy media
If anyone doubts this is a tactical strategy, see what @LHreports did with Bloomberg money to publish Bloomberg health dogma.
It didn't matter there was no story
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Seed World Europe columnist @zaruk says Europe’s GMO approval system remains broken, with safe GM crops allowed for import but not cultivation. He argues the 2001 GMO Directive needs revision. #GMOs #NGTs
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Governments like the European Commission fund NGOs to campaign. Governments then claim this is the voice of civil society and enact their agenda.
What happens when they get caught?
How does the real civil society feel?
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Many of us have forgotten how widespread the "untelligence" was during the height of the catastrophic climate change fear campaign.
While we may have forgotten the well-funded insanity, I cannot forget how Judith Curry stood up to them.
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On #WorldNoTobaccoDay, @OliverVarhelyi released a statement riddled with falsehood and ignornace about the safety of tobacco harm reduction.
@peterbeckett and @zaruk show how VarHar has become the EU's Trump, an embarrassing clown who should be fired.
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If you're a serious film producer doing a documentary for Netflix, shouldn't you cover all sides of the issue?
Not if your paymaster is a billionaire philanthropist from the metals industry campaigning to ban plastics. Then lying is an order.
#PlasticDetox
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PVC flooring is widely recognized as more sustainable than alternatives.
But Nordic Swan was so afraid of being attacked by activists at Greenpeace they made up nonsense to justify why they couldn't even consider certifying PVC.
@zaruk takes a closer look.
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Terrific interview with @zaruk. "It looks like there is a whole civil society ecosystem lined up against tobacco harm reduction. But in fact it all flows back to Michael Bloomberg ..."
Mike Bloomberg has spent $1.6 billion undermining the fight against tobacco. This week we speak to David @zaruk - The Risk Monger - who researched how the money is washed into lobbying and anti-science initiatives that parrot Bloomberg talking points. clearingtheair.eu/post/inter…
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The Firebreak FOIA into collusion between the EPA and the activist project, Beyond Plastics, showed email exchanges where Judith Enck was planning protests in front of the EPA offices and government officials were planning drinks or dinner with her.
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More Halloween perhaps than Xmas... @zaruk envisions dystopian future food holidays under #rfkjr wacky (un)health policies #goodread thefirebreak.org/p/christmas…
ALT https://www.thefirebreak.org/p/christmas-dinner-in-2035-dystopia
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The activist-organic-litigation industry onslaught against glyphosate has always been based not on science, but moral outrage. It has always presented not facts, but perceptions.
Framing it as a battle between good and evil, the basis has always been weak.
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Excellent. The failure of IARC to retract the erroneous Monograph 112 classification of glyphosate is also a refutation of the scientific method. The scientific and procedural errors in the IARC glyphosate deliberations are far more serious those with the Williams et al. paper.
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Risk management is common sense: reduce harm while ensuring benefits.
Regulators prefer no clear policy guidance document because vague ambiguity can be convenient for some decisions.
We need a White Paper on Risk Management for common sense policy.
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Should seed and pesticide companies split?
@zaruk questions if breaking up ag-tech would help farmers — or weaken innovation.
🔗 Seeds and Pesticides: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
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Scientist: Explore, discover, test, verify, develop, innovate, improve lives.
Journalist: Control F "conspiracy word".
@zaruk asks: Which one adds value to humanity?
Why do we let integrity-challenged journalists like Emily Kopp destroy trust in science?
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The EU precautionary approach demands that a product or process be "safe" (with certainty).
This emotional concept doesn't actually exist.
Risk managers aim for "safer", reducing exposures and harms to #ALARA.
I'd support pragmatic over idealistic policies
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In what world could billionaires fund academic law NGOs who pay their activist fellows to execute lawsuits on behalf of US states?
A Special Assistant Attorney General can litigate on behalf of governments, in service to the billionaire and not the people.
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