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f you want advice on which coffee maker or space heater to buy, Consumer Reports (CR) is where you go. Their experts can help you select a Keurig and save a few bucks along the way like nobody else. Every so often, though, CR ventures far outside its area of expertise and publishes alarmist claims … Read more

Environmental activists rely on several go-to tactics when fomenting fear of pesticides. One of their favorite methods is recruiting fake whistleblowers, often retired government scientists, who will spread conspiratorial nonsense about regulatory agencies and other researchers. Here’s a real-world example of the “phony whistleblower gambit.”

he less informed someone is about a topic, the more likely they are to overestimate their knowledge of it. This is a cognitive bias known as the Dunning-Kruger effect; it’s a simple, compelling theory—and it may be incorrect. Is industry inherently untrustworthy? Activist groups have promoted that idea for decades, but there’s much more to … Read more

| September 8, 2022

In the age of fake news and conspiracy theories, some find it seductive to assert that evil agrochemical lobbies would make rain and shine in agriculture. They would be so powerful that they would dictate policies to be held under the nose of political decision-makers or outright with their full cooperation.

| June 1, 2022

art One of this essay on the evolution of anti-GMO activism ended with an introduction to the book The Rhetoric of Reaction by the development economist and political theorist Albert O. Hirschman published in 1991. The book argued that conservative political movements have a discernible pattern in making the case against progressive reform. They pursue … Read more

t’s been ten years of downhill sledding for advocacy groups and activists campaigning to throttle the burgeoning biotechnology revolution transforming both medicine in agriculture. The success of COVID vaccines, most of which were engineered in one way or another, has opened the public’s eyes to the vast potential and demonstrable benefits of genomic tinkering. In … Read more

| March 21, 2022

ebruary 9, a headline caused a stir: Annalena Baerbock now employs Jennifer Morgan, the former head of Greenpeace, as special representative for international climate policy. An open lobbyist in the federal government? “How can that be?” wondered many commentators on social networks. The Federal Foreign Minister also encouragement received. LobbyControl, a German NGO, defended the federal minister with … Read more

he rapid development of mRNA-based COVID vaccines has sparked fresh interest in earlier efforts to produce new and hopefully more effective flu shots with the same technology. Pfizer, Moderna, and Sanofi/Translate Bio each have an mRNA flu vaccine in clinical trials, and there are ten more candidates awaiting testing. It’s one thing to test a … Read more

| August 9, 2021

ttacking pesticides is sexy. Many activists, lawyers and journalists have made careers out of propagating a simple, compelling narrative about the chemicals farmers use to produce our food. The story goes something like this (cue ominous narrator voice): Greedy company X developed synthetic chemical Y to kill pests. It worked so well that farmers now … Read more

Our greatest public health challenge isn’t chemicals — it’s ignorance and fear-mongering about them.

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