RT @nick_routledge: @_ACBIO The real issue? *Why* have "South African biosafety regulators failed in the exercise of [their] biosafety oversight role"? As your 2020 report, 'GMOs in South Africa 23 years on', succinctly clarifies, "essentially the system is rigged." Regulatory capture, a global corruption.
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Secrecy regarding members of the advisory committee Concerns about vested interests in decision-making as well as questions regarding scientific capacity to assess and apply the latest scientific information. Regulators inherent bias toward corporate science and a tendency to label independent science as “junk”and disregard lay opinions that may speak to a wide array of concerns, e.g. seed sovereignty, cultural or personal preferences, ethics, etc.
@RobertKennedyJr @TuckerCarlson "Criticism of their cosy, common fundamentalism is decried, dismissed and actively suppressed as ignorant, anti-science. And to this end, they behave as a gang. Can I show empirical evidence and interpretation in accordance with scientific method to this effect? Yes, actually."
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Highlights •Five recent cases of regulatory capture in Europe are investigated. •Important forms of corporate penetration are based on a strategic use of the image and legitimacy of science. •Lobbyists present themselves as upholders of science and of evidence-based policy to advance their agenda. •The strategy follows an ‘epistemic ladder’, from questioning the evidence to questioning its legitimacy, to acting as to create a worldview. Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture.
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Excerpt of two consecutive tweets from a thread: GMWatch Canada's federal govt allows biotech firms free reign in the food system, removes safety checks on corporate science, and denies transparency to farmers and food companies. via@biotechaction | CBAN cban.ca/federal-government-allows-biotechnology-companies-free-reign-in-the-food-system-removes-safety-checks-on-corporate-science-and-denies-transparency-to-farmers-and-food-companies/ GMWatch (CBAN)“This is a shocking abdication of responsibility by our regulators. The 🇨🇦govt has fully turned #GMO food safety over to companies using confidential, privately-owned science. We need independent science, not corporate self-regulation.” — Lucy Sharratt of@biotechaction
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Sep 15, 2022 What does the science say? Worldwide 'regulatory capture' is central to and fundamentally indistinguishable from global GMO technology advancement: "In the final phase, even the staff of the agency comes to be selected from among the ranks of the interest groups it regulates." With screen capture image of two more tweets attached: GMWatch UK ministers are advised on the risks to health and the environment from the release of #GMOs by a committee chaired by a former biotech industry employee who co-founded an industry-funded lobby group "to make the case for GM crops & foods" GMWatch · Every other member, i.e. 100%, of the UK Govt's statutory advisors on the release of #GMOs also has potential or actual conflicts of interest. In fact, their list of interests reads like Who's Who of the British biotech industry!