kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@OscillatingAgama @kiri

That's an interesting case, because UK politicians mostly repeated lies created elsewhere - specifically at media such as Daily Mail, a rather appalling cooperative of xenophobic, racist and nationalist journalists, writing stories for equally nationalist and thrill-seeking audience. These are the people who engineered Brexit.

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https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld

This has been predicted already in June 2021 (!)

https://scientist.lk/2021/06/08/sri-lanka-going-organic-rethink-the-strategy-agriculturists-write-to-president/

Sri Lanka hired organic & natural advisors such as Vandana Shiva to reform its agricultural sector... and ended up banning "chemical fertilisers" and pesticides.

As result, it saw a tragically low harvest which results in food shortages and threatens whole branches of Sri Lankan industry.

Protests of farming and scientific community who predicted this failure were ignored.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/1/organic-food-revolution-sri-lanka-tea-industry

#gmo #organic #natural

@piotrsikora

TWh, roczna produkcja energii elektrycznej

@OscillatingAgama @kiri

Here's a website that discusses tons of such EU stories created by British tabloids http://eumyths.com/

@OscillatingAgama @kiri

Codex Alimentarius is dedicated to labelling of medicinal products - basically, if you're selling vitamin C, you cannot label it as cure for cancer, impotence and headache unless there's scientific evidence for any of these.

Of course, before Codex the "remedy" manufacturers would write *anything* on the labels only to boost their sales, which was totally dishonest and harmful to the customers who believed they are buying an actual medicine.

@OscillatingAgama @kiri

No no, cucumber curvature was one of the EU myths invented by British tabloids. They turned what was basically a trading classification standard (as "vegetable of such and such shape is class A, that shape is class B etc") into a nonsense where "EU bans straight cucumbers".

The official plan for Belgium #Energiewende transitions from 12 gCO2eq/kWh fuel to... 400 gCO2eq/kWh fuel. Just as in Germany, someone has completely missed the point - it was reduction of CO2 that was the primary goal of Energiewende!!!

@angdraug

That's even more interesting, as the people he represents are clearly not uneducated or financially deprived (to put that lightly). 😮

@kiri

Also a few years ago there was a massive "grassroots" campaign against one EU regulation called Codex Alimentarius, which the critics called "totalitarian" and argued it leads to a "ban on growing herbs in home gardens".

Of course, it was driven by German manufacturers of some snake oil remedies.

The actual purpose of the regulation was to prevent "remedies" from being labelled as curing X unless a scientific evidence exist that it does indeed cure X.

@kiri

Homeopathic products are a very curious case, especially when put against the anti-vaxxer complaints about vaccines being "insufficiently tested".

Not only homeopathy doesn't go through *any* clinical trials but in many EU countries it's the only medical product that has an explicit exception and simply doesn't need any evidence of efficacy.

That's what lobbying from German and Swiss industry has done.

@devurandom

Oh crap 😓 And ~20% vaccinated so far so it's not going to stop.

@maikek @dajbelshaw

In reality, nobody cares. In the UK people are camping everywhere, in parkings, streets, town parks, the only question that bothers them is whether someone is actually going to try to remove them. So I wouldn't bother, just apply common sense.

@piotrsikora @stepien_przemek

https://twitter.com/stepien_przemek/status/1408110271575511055?s=20

Polecam jednakowoż ten wątek, gdzie Stępień zaczyna od "krążą różne bzdury na temat ilości cementu zużywanego przy budowie farmy wiatrowej" a kończy na:

As we talk about people drinking bleach and ivermectin, 🇺🇸 Representative Ro Khanna and 24 others have just sent a letter to FDA to request guidelines on protection of "genuine homeopathic products".

Let that phrase sink in:

> genuine homeopathic products

😂

As I read it, "genuine homeopathic product" is a product made by one of the manufacturers designated as "genuine", thus saving them the hurdle of competing on the difficult snake oil market.

#homeopathy

@publius Oh you mean this one? Just found it and ordered on Alibris :) It's "Energy or Extinction? The case for nuclear energy", 1977. Sounds very much up-to-date in the context of 2021 energy concerns.

@publius

The anti-whatever movements then
nicely converged with the US (and UK) tort law firms, as documented by David Zaruk - they have co-engineered the GMO lawsuits, MMR vaccine lawsuits (failed, Wakefield scandal), mobile phone lawsuits, Roundup, talcum and other nonsense.

https://risk-monger.com/issues/slimegate/