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@zaruk

David Zaruk, as The Risk-Monger, challenges confirmation bias. Fighting activist zealots. Fighting for farmers. Fighting cardiovascular disease and arthritis.

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Would you support independent thinking from someone willing to challenge the emotional campaigns of dogmatic zealots? For €/$ 5 per month, you can become a Risk-Monger Patron. At #GoldMonger level, you'll get a newsletter with more news and commentaries. patreon.com/user?u=97155284
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Michael Bloomberg pays the top 10 directors in each of his NGOs $25K a month. They'll tell him anything if it means keeping the gravy train humming How can we break through this shield and get him to see how his war on nicotine is increasing smoking rates? clearingtheair.eu/en/post/nicoti…
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Clearing the Air
Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air·
Have some scientists stopped following the evidence and started following the campaign? In his regular column, @zaruk doesn't hold back, arguing "activist science" is distorting the nicotine debate, and public health is paying the price. clearingtheair.eu/post/nicotines…
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What happens when the stupid lead the blind? Should foundations be giving naive activist idealists more power and money to campaign when they have no knowledge or experience of the industry they are attacking? Worse, these zealots don't care how many deaths their activism causes.
THE FIREBREAK@the_firebreak

In a recent webinar, none of the participants had worked in industry and their comments revealed they had no idea what industry was. This is a common failure with NGOs. @zaruk shows how consequences of attacks on industry by ignorant actors can be serious. thefirebreak.org/p/the-activist…

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Why is Bloomberg spending billions on trying to stop alternative nicotine products. Their well-funded research is ridiculous, they are pushing so many back to smoking. What is their rationale? My latest in @clearingthe_air highlights a secret about nicotine that must terrify them
Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air

Have some scientists stopped following the evidence and started following the campaign? In his regular column, @zaruk doesn't hold back, arguing "activist science" is distorting the nicotine debate, and public health is paying the price. clearingtheair.eu/post/nicotines…

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@RobertTarone The scientific world needs more people like you Bob with the courage to stand up to IARC's coordinated onslaughts.
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Robert Tarone@RobertTarone·
@zaruk The frivolous talc and glyphosate lawsuits were initiated by questionable/erroneous IARC classifications. Not sure why corporate scientists and lawyers did not more directly challenge the basis for IARC’s decisions. Is it perhaps fear of IARC retaliation against other products?
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I don't get J&J. They had the Predatorts hanging, with a series of losses and no scientific evidence. They won the talc extortion campaign. They could have bankrupted the bastards given how leveraged they are to the litigation finance loan sharks. Then they settled for $5 billion
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The new experts in town. It has only been 18 months. What will happen to America's regulatory science after four years?
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@LauriLinnea @DrLizaMD Not to mention irresponsible and reckless. They saw a potential pop in their share price so they went for it. But that is 5 billion to fund the next Predatort extortion racket.
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Lauri@LauriLinnea·
@zaruk @DrLizaMD These companies deserve to go broke for their cowardly betrayal of the rest of us.
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Wackes Seppi@SeppiWackes·
Une histoire dans laquelle la Commission Européenne paie la « société civile » pour qu’elle lui dise ce qu’elle veut entendre… et le réseau électrique se désagrège quand même. Un article de David @zaruk, The Firebreak. seppi.over-blog.com/2026/07/bruxel…
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Lighthouse Reports pays off freelance journalists to feed into their noise machine. But like a bus whose brakes screech nearby, we hear the noise, then continue with our day. Foundations could do so much more with their philanthropy than waste millions promoting noise machines.
THE FIREBREAK@the_firebreak

Time was, activists measured success in memberships, policy influence, changes. Now their metric is noise. In equating noise with impact though, campaigns are then designed, funded and executed for short-term gain. Networks amplify the noise, then move on. thefirebreak.org/p/lighthouse-r…

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THE FIREBREAK@the_firebreak·
We talk about how NGOs work to manipulate the narrative, using foundation funding to buy media If anyone doubts this is a tactical strategy, see what @LHreports did with Bloomberg money to publish Bloomberg health dogma. It didn't matter there was no story thefirebreak.org/p/lighthouse-r…
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Another food industry fear campaign! Michael Bloomberg has donated $435 million to run his Food Policy Program (along the same techniques as his tobacco and nicotine campaigns). 4 of his NGOs wrote the dataset for the @LHreports articles. $435 million can buy a lot of journalists
THE FIREBREAK@the_firebreak

Another @LHreports investigation on food and UPFs that says nothing, but feeds it through their noise machine to amplify outrage and advance special interests. Who funded this mercenary activism? Easy to find. Just look for the one bent on taxing pleasure. thefirebreak.org/p/lighthouse-r…

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Who needs policy, science or facts when you can just lawyer up instead? When industry does it, NGOs call it SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) and they demand government regulations to protect them Then they promote #StrategicLitigation I call this hypocrisy
THE FIREBREAK@the_firebreak

Activists promoting a new alliance with the litigation industry to attack industry and effect policy change without regulations. It's called #StrategicLitigation Relentless lawfare, climate nuisance suits, adversarial regulation...anything goes if they win thefirebreak.org/p/the-immorali…

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@Clear_Food Tim did 2 years but he was "by far the least slimy serpent in the cesspool." Miller, Wisner, Gillam had to silence him. Tim earned Johnson's trust (why he's next to him) but they had to write him out of the story. Now Wisner's funding and writing a film to claim credit. Pathetic!
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Clear Food@Clear_Food·
@zaruk Isn't that #RFKjr next to Brett Wisner who has his arm around glyphosate co-counsel Timothy Litzenburg who later went to jail for extortion and fraud involving his multi-billion-dollar attempts to shake down a glyphosate manufacturer?
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In looking up some details for an article to come out tomorrow, I found research from 6 years ago on the glyphosate extortion racket. The Big Lie, that glyphosate caused the cancer in 100s of thousands of lawsuits, has been protected for 6 years. Stunning! risk-monger.com/2020/01/08/sli…
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@CamiDRyan The reason the Wisner clan is so bent on getting their Cinderella story on film is that Tim is out of jail now and could tell the reality. When Dwayne Lee Johnson was in Brussels, I had a chance for one question, and it was how he felt about what they did to Tim. He was emotional
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Cami Ryan, PhD@CamiDRyan·
@zaruk I had forgotten about all that til I read your post. On a related note… The truth is, they keep making movies and documentaries about the wrong story. Telling the truth is harder when it doesn't fit the convenient script.
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Cami Ryan, PhD@CamiDRyan·
“There are many questions that the recent slew of glyphosate lawsuits raises (if any journalists were actually interested in investigating).” Let’s call it what it is: extortion. And why AREN’T journalists interested in this story? I have never been able to figure that out.
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In looking up some details for an article to come out tomorrow, I found research from 6 years ago on the glyphosate extortion racket. The Big Lie, that glyphosate caused the cancer in 100s of thousands of lawsuits, has been protected for 6 years. Stunning! risk-monger.com/2020/01/08/sli…

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Reminder: the Poison PR scandal was where activists, foundations and journalists got into bed with the litigation industry to try to create outrage against industry that would prime the juries for their paraquat lawsuits. Now they are going to boast to us on how they did it.
THE FIREBREAK@the_firebreak

Next week, activists will host a webinar on the benefits of #StrategicLitigation. A speaker from @LHreports will share the success story of their Poison PR collusion with the litigation industry. But @zaruk feels they shouldn't celebrate unethical tactics thefirebreak.org/p/the-immorali…

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