Yaël Ossowski
Viewpoint: Dissecting HHS Secretary and tort lawyer RFK, Jr.’s Tylenol-autism scam: Billions of dollars of class action lawsuits
RFK Jr. is relying on select studies and questionable experts for his autism claims, using the bully pulpit of federal power to ...
$13 billion dollar challenge: Congress poised to mull legislation that could help cool the explosion in ambulance-chasing tort cases
A bill introduced by US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) puts reasonable checks on third-party litigation finance, and legal reform advocates and consumers should ...
Viewpoint: Time to put limits on lawyers targeting corporations for huge legal payouts
In response to several bills introduced in both the US House and Senate seeking to put limits and disclosures on ...
Video: How Chinese firms finance litigation disrupting intellectual property in biotech and food distribution system
The commodification of lawsuit funding [...] opens the door to even more bad faith participation in the justice system. ...
Congress mulls transparency bills to limit booming industry of undisclosed third-party litigators
Litigation funders are hedge funds, credit lenders, and venture capitalists who front legal costs in exchange for a percentage of ...
Video: What would a world without herbicides look like? Purdue’s Jayson Lusk addresses how biotechnology can address climate change and reduce food insecurity
Pesticide shortages, increased labor costs, and transportation bottlenecks are raising the cost of food across the EU. With war roiling ...
Viewpoint: ‘One-size-fits-all pesticide policy hurts farmers and doesn’t help pollinators’ — Why Boulder, Colorado ignores science in push to ban neonicotinoids
It is commonly cited within the beekeeping community that pesticides called neonics can negatively impact honeybees. An oft-invoked visualization shows ...
Viewpoint: New York state legislators ignore the science in rush to embrace erroneous bee-apocalypse claims
We all remember the adage “Save the Bees!” that scientists and beekeepers have promoted. It animated environmental activists for a ...