David Zaruk
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Viewpoint: How precautionary public health policy turned coronavirus into a ‘global train wreck’
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Worldwide coronavirus response was a failure in risk management ...
Podcast: How ‘activist science’ behind IARC’s glyphosate assessment fuels unjustified cancer lawsuits
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In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a monograph concluding that glyphosate, the active ingredient in ...
Viewpoint: ‘Roundup game plan’—How ‘environmental’ activists, IARC’s Chris Portier plotted attacks on Monsanto-Bayer to get glyphosate banned and cripple ag biotechnology
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The failure to retract the monograph despite overwhelming rejections from the scientific community points to a Glyphosate Gameplan at IARC ...
Viewpoint: Hidden conflicts of interest cripple IARC’s biased glyphosate-cancer evaluation
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IARC has no clear understanding of what a conflict of interest is (or doesn’t care) ...
Viewpoint: How trial lawyers rigged IARC’s cancer monograph program to fuel lawsuits targeting glyphosate, other chemicals
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IARC is a troubling example of a UN agency used for personal profit ...
Viewpoint: Pouring greed on an ethical fire—Questionable ‘litigation finance’ scam funds glyphosate-cancer lawsuit mill
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Greed is being poured on an ethical fire ...
Viewpoint: The ‘assault on science’ and human welfare by eco-activists who reject agricultural technology as ‘corporate subterfuge’
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a dangerous anti-science mindset is cementing itself into our problem-based policy approaches ...
Viewpoint: Anti-glyphosate ‘true believers’ circumvent democracy with legal crusade against Bayer’s Roundup weed killer
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Between the opportunists and the 'true believers'...which is worse? ...
Viewpoint: Farmers’ crops are failing, and Europe’s precautionary assault on neonicotinoid insecticides is to blame
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Farmers will never forget the last five years of incompetence from the European Commission ...
Predatort Part II: How predatory lawyers, activist scientists hijacked IARC—International Agency for Research on Cancer—for personal profit and ideological vanity
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How the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has forsaken academic integrity and knowingly contributes to the Predatort litigation ...
Viewpoint: Controversy flares over activist ‘predatort lawyers’ who ‘massaged facts’ in the Monsanto-glyphosate case
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Lawyers often use a certain breed of self-interested scientist to terrify a jury of vulnerable non-specialists ...
Viewpoint: Developing nations should reject Europe’s fear-based crop biotech rules to grow their economies
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In a recent speaking tour in South-East Asia, I was horrified to learn how many emerging market governments in the ...
Viewpoint: How to talk to your anti-GMO relatives during the holidays
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We all have them. This brother-in-law or sister-in-law, who is very active on social networks. You accepted his friendly request for family ...
Viewpoint: Europe has traded crop biotechnology for ‘faith-based’ agroecology
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We are living in a new Dark Age in Europe where innovation and technology are being rejected at an alarming ...
Viewpoint: EU’s new gene-editing rules show failure of scientific leadership
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On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that plants bred via recent mutagenesis techniques would fall ...
10 tips for better communication about pesticide science, risks
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One of the biggest challenges for any risk communications professional today is to deliver positive messages on pesticides. Like any ...
In the Battle to Regulate GMOS, Gene Editing and other New Breeding Techniques, Who Has ‘Hazard Blood’ on their Hands?
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David Zaruk, Founder of GreenFacts, Environmental-Health Risk Governance Analyst, Professor at Odisee University College | July 26, 2018 This third ...
Precautionary Politics: Europe Moves Backward into a Fear-Based ‘Dark Ages’ in Regulating Agriculture and Cancer Risks
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David Zaruk, Founder of GreenFacts, Environmental-Health Risk Governance Analyst, Professor at Odisee University College | July 25, 2018 Highlights: The ...
Risk, Hazard and the Precautionary Principle: Why Europe Gets Crop Biotechnology and Chemical Regulation So Wrong
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David Zaruk, Founder of GreenFacts, Environmental-Health Risk Governance Analyst, Professor at Odisee University College | July 24, 2018 Highlights: European ...
Viewpoint: Why organic farming activists oppose New Breeding Techniques (NBTs)
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There was a brief moment in 2015 where organic farming researchers were having an open discussion on adopting certain innovative ...
Viewpoint: 6 ways IARC Director Christopher Wild lied to Congress about cancer agency’s glyphosate debacle
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While the outgoing head of the embattled agency refused to testify before the US House Science Committee, he did send ...
Viewpoint: 12 ways organic activists mislead consumers
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Does the organic food industry use deceptive marketing practices to scare wealthy customers away from conventional agriculture and GMOs? The ...
Viewpoint: Anti-biotech groups’ master plan substitutes ‘citizen science’ for data in quest to get glyphosate banned
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The European Union resisted the lobbying of organic and anti-biotech groups to renew authorization of glyphosate, although only for five ...
Viewpoint: After Christopher Wild departure, next IARC chief must fix ‘beleaguered’ agency
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With the sudden departure of IARC head Christopher Wild, here's a wish list put together by David Zaruk, who offers ...
Viewpoint: Former US journalist Carey Gillam should stay out of Europe’s glyphosate debate
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A former agricultural reporter at Reuters, Gillam now presents herself as "the Rachel Carson of the GMO debate." Belgian-based risk ...
Viewpoint: Christopher Portier—well-paid activist scientist at center of the ban-glyphosate movement
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Christopher Portier, special adviser to the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, is bringing down the reputation ...
Viewpoint: GMO debate needs more innovation, not scientific consensus
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[Editor’s note: David Zaruk, who writes under the blog name ‘The Risk-Monger’ is a professor based in Brussels writing on ...
Viewpoint: Attacks against ‘Monsanto shill’ illustrate ridiculous claims of anti-GMO lobbyists
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[Editor’s note: David Zaruk is the Risk-Monger. He has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2000, active ...