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David Zaruk, as The Risk-Monger, challenges confirmation bias. Fighting activist zealots. Fighting for farmers. Fighting cardiovascular disease and arthritis.
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Joined June 2009
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Standing up for evidence-based decision-making
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Here is the link to her declaration of interests to Congress ... if you want to see how a grifter hides her funding. https://t.co/eqUIofwNRo
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Reading Casey Means' declaration of interests to Congress, I was curious about her stock portfolio. While most on the list are exactly what the US Surgeon General should invest in (...?), her shares in Baidu worry me. I'd do an article on her, but she'll get bored and quit soon.
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Here is a section from Casey Means' newsletter (that's rather full of grift). Her advice goes beyond medical orthodoxy. She'll be the next US Surgeon General. If you are having a hard time accepting this, maybe you should go out and talk to the trees. https://t.co/DODSe1wSoB
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The quality of European leadership?
Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday. For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.
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Organic farmers can't compete with the sustainable benefits made possible with herbicides like glyphosate, so they try to ban it. When you choose to eat organic, you are supporting a deceptive, unethical food industry lobby.
Farmers are developing complex cover crops. Some seeds nourish the soil, some with deep roots aerate it, some deter pests that threaten the incoming crop. Some provide pollen for bees. Without glyphosate, farmers can't grow these multi-specie crops https://t.co/INTQmNcUWG
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This is rich! @USRightToKnow is banging on over $9M in Bayer lobby funding (includes law firms) but is silent on the $100M/year the Agroecology Fund has to raise fear and doubt about ag-tech Why? Maybe as they're funded by Global Greengrants, the Agroecology Fund's fiscal sponsor
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Organic farming is faith-based. If a pesticide is natural, they can use it. Most herbicides aren't natural so they till and damage the soil instead. This isn't scientific. They lie and spread fears about glyphosate to prevent other farmers from sustainable ag. This isn't ethical.
Glyphosate allows for sustainable practices like no-till farming. Organic farmers can't use herbicides. They have to regularly plow. Instead of adopting more sustainable ag, the organic food lobby tries to ban glyphosate. @zaruk questions this strategy. https://t.co/INTQmNcUWG
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"Glyphosate works, it’s safe, it’s cheap and for that, it’s Public Enemy #1." This relentless #glyphysteria is pure madness. My latest @the_firebreak
In an executive order last week, Trump declared glyphosate an essential protected resource. Despite MAHA outrage, he's right. @zaruk explains why glyphosate is essential for sustainable farming and who is behind the activist onslaught against the herbicide https://t.co/INTQmNcUWG
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The Agroecology Fund, not a real organization but a shadow managed via a dark fiscal sponsor, raises over $100 million a year for lobbying against ag-tech. What is the true cost of this waste of funds? - 100K deaths - Malnutrition - Child labor - Poverty https://t.co/5x2oGJN6FT
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As the WHO NCD ambassador, @MikeBloomberg could have built enough clinics to have saved 300,000 to 500,000 lives per year, but he chose to kill more people who continued to smoke after his campaigns confused them about the safer, reduced harm of vaping. What a moron!
Many would say @MikeBloomberg can spend his money however he likes. But if he's wasting $1.6 billion on lobbying campaigns to spread disinformation then: - don't call it philanthrophy - it's not tax deductible - his NGOs need to be fully transparent https://t.co/t2Gfz8rWst
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What if billionaire philanthropists funded legitimate humanitarian NGOs rather than activist APEs (Alternative Policy Enterprises)? In calculating the true cost of the foundation waste, millions of lives could have been saved. Instead they funded fear and disinformation campaigns
The rapid rise of groups of foundations, spending billions on activist lobbying campaigns via dark fiscal sponsors, is controlling the narrative and changing the public policy landscape. @zaruk asks: What is the true cost of this reallocation of resources? https://t.co/t2Gfz8rWst
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Oh dear, oh dear My club would kick me out for at least 5 gym etiquette transgressions these baboons committed in this idiotic video. Can you name them? Shows how little they care about promoting proper fitness techniques and how stupid the MAHAvians are that they wouldn't notice
I’ve teamed up with @KidRock to deliver two simple messages to the American people: GET ACTIVE + EAT REAL FOOD.
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The only country that has achieved anything in 29 years in the Developing 8 is Iran. No other member countries would dare speak out against their agenda. Don't underestimate the price a pariah state will pay for legitimacy. But Iran is in arrears with the D-8. Complete madness.
Why do countries continue to belong to global organizations, decade after decade, when nothing is achieved? Personal agenda, opportunism, favor banks...? If the public had a choice, they would want better schools, safe water, infrastructure... https://t.co/fdX4iSWkVb
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I'm thinking of starting a series on global organizations that have achieved nothing over decades but continue to exist. Why do governments with serious debt or development concerns continue to waste millions on these organizations? I share a few ideas.
Imagine an international organization having existed for 29 years that has not achieved a single thing. Now imagine 100s of them. @zaruk takes a look at the @D8org and tries to understand why developing countries invest so much in attending their meetings. https://t.co/fdX4iSWkVb
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Is Michael Bloomberg ethical or transparent? Of course not! But he's Michael Bloomberg. He's saving the world! How dare you question his illegal or immoral behaviour! Part 3 dares to ask...
@zaruk and Part 3 is here
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Poor Peter, trying to keep his face straight as I mention the average monthly salary for the top 10 managers in each Bloomberg-funded NGO is +$25,000 per month. - Integrity can be bought - Billionaires will get what they want - Money doesn't matter in foundation-led campaigns
@zaruk Part 2 is available here:
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MAHA didn't just happen because RFK Jr's Democratic primary campaign fizzled out. He and his Tonto, Del Bigtree, had been grooming support from within the Christian right for the last decade. It's a good fit. As he'll run in 2028, Pentecostal support will make him the MAGA heir.
Some of us can still remember how the Moral Majority pushed its agenda in the early 1980s. @zaruk shows how the Pentecostals are back, now as the controling hand behind MAHA. The Moms Lobby are a nice front, but they're too inexperienced and unpredictable. https://t.co/gnWUKKnsRY
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I try to unravel the complexities of Bloomberg's influence funding web. Here's the first part... breathe, relax... more parts are coming. And guess what, we are still digging and Bloomberg's manipulation of #TobaccoHarmReduction gets even foggier and more dishonest. More to come
Following on from our interview with The Risk Monger @zaruk we have a 3 part video series on how Bloomberg's uses his billions to corrupt public health discourse. (pls give us a follow while you're there :)
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Pentecostals are the core to MAHA. Both groups strive for purity, redemption and stopping our science-led society. Science is the new fallen angel.
MAHA Moms plan a mutiny on the EPA's #dicamba decision. Are these Moms the heart of MAHA? @zaruk shows how Pentecostals are the real core to MAHA, going back a decade. With RFK Jr planning a run in 28, their support makes him the MAGA heir. The Moms can go https://t.co/gnWUKKmV2q
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