A California Jury has awarded a plaintiff almost $300 million dollars, agreeing with Edwin Hardeman’s claim that his exposure to the glyphosate-based pesticide Roundup gave him cancer. According to Reuters, this is the second jury trial Bayer has lost and, unfortunately, more are on the way. Over 11,000 liability lawsuits have been filed against Bayer…
NBC’s action television action show The Blacklist recently broadcast an episode in which the villain is a crazed anti-pesticide terrorist who uses genetically modified insects to kill his victims. The show stars James Spader whose character Raymond “Red” Reddington was an international criminal who turned himself in to the FBI. “Red” enjoys a somewhat limited…
Greenpeace is attempting to deny that Patrick Moore was a co-founder of their organization. This according to Patrick Moore who is an Ecologist and co-founder of the group but instead Greenpeace accuses Moore of being a paid lobbyist, not an independent source after he came out against the Green New Deal. However, according to The…
Environmentalists have been working overtime trying to convince the public that pesticides, like Roundup, are bad for you. They seek to get pesticides outlawed despite clear evidence that pesticides do not contribute to disease outbreaks and help farmers fend off insects that ruin crop yields which helps the human food supply. In reality and as…
Earlier this month, a physician and molecular biologist named Henry Miller had an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal pointing out the dubious claims and questionable science behind organic foods. Shortly after Dr. Miller’s commentary appeared, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb expressed concern about information on organic food labels and the need to have more…
Guest essay by Patrick Moore, PhD Some time ago it struck me that the majority of alleged environmental catastrophes and threats are invisible or very remote, thus making it virtually impossible for the average person to validate them through observation. Observations, along with replications of those observations, are the very foundation of the scientific method. Seeing……
Foreword: Environmental activists always claim they merely want better public policies, to save the Earth and its endangered species. Far too often, their real goal is acquiring more money and power – by misdiagnosing and misrepresenting, exaggerating and fabricating, ecological crises. It’s the road to the hell of badpublic policy. And it’s not always paved… via…
