As #COP30 kicks off, there are basic questions about what the point of any of this is. In my latest, I think it is time for COPitulation of the process. But the COPocrisy still has legs as these global climate diplomats don't want to give up their lucrative game. www.thefirebreak.org/p/time-to-co...

Tortification of healthcare. Who is responsible for the US healthcare service decline? Tort lawyers say it's the captured agency scientists and the drug companies. Economists say it's the corrupted tort legal system. A tort grifter in now running the HHS. risk-monger.com/2025/11/04/s...

Post-capitalist campaigners must realize that getting in bed with tort lawyers, taking their money via dark, donor-advised foundation funding, and promoting their lawsuits is only enabling a more crass capitalism and corruption via the litigation industry. risk-monger.com/2025/11/04/s...

Do activists realise how rude and disrespectful they are? Maybe if the NGOs who signed on to the personal attack dog known as #KickBigPollutersOut themselves get kicked out of #COP30, they'll see how their assault on dialogue was not morally acceptable. www.thefirebreak.org/p/kick-big-e...

Activists hate ethics codes of conduct. It means they can't lie, personally attack others and be disrespectful At #COP30, the UNFCCC has a code of conduct. I filed a complaint against #MakeBigPollutersPay for ethics violations You should too at [email protected] www.thefirebreak.org/p/kick-big-e...

How does a #LitigationFinance company make money off its investors? We already know how these ex-Enron sharks take 50% from the plaintiffs. As there's no transparency, no audits and no reporting, we rely on whistleblowers to reveal their new #PonziScheme. risk-monger.com/2025/11/04/s...

Risk management is common sense: reduce harm while ensuring benefits. Regulators prefer no clear policy guidance document because vague ambiguity can be convenient for some decisions. We need a White Paper on Risk Management for common sense policy. www.thefirebreak.org/p/a-european...

Part 2 of the #LitigationFinance whistleblower exposé looks at how investors pump billions into funds earmarked for certain lawsuits. No disclosure, no transparency, no scrutiny. Who are they? What special interests? Doesn't this corrupt the US tort system? risk-monger.com/2025/11/04/s...

Part 2 of the #SlimeGate #LitigationFinance whistleblower exposé is out. Here John shares his struggles with large external investors trying to push his lending practices toward their special interests. We learn about the numbers, the profits and the dark corruption. risk-monger.com/2025/11/04/s...

We're being managed by idealistic monkeys. And unless we demand a rational governance guidance document, we're the ones responsible for letting them fling their faeces on us. My latest, a one pager, calls for an EU White Paper on Risk Management. www.thefirebreak.org/p/a-european...

When you need to fix a leak, look for where the water is coming from. My latest gets at the source of the problem. EU decision-makers don't (wish to) understand the risk management process. The solution is a guidance document (White Paper) on risk management. www.thefirebreak.org/p/a-european...

The #LitigationFinance whistleblower exposé not only shows what's going on behind the curtains of the most corrupt loan shark lending industry in America, it also gives the Risk-Monger space at the end to propose ways to address the problems. #SlimeGate risk-monger.com/2025/10/27/s...

It boggles the mind how much of the tort lawsuit payouts goes to litigation finance companies (and not the victims). It boggles the mind that no one is looking at these dark, secretive lending companies. Part 1 of the #LitigationFinance whistleblower exposé. risk-monger.com/2025/10/27/s...

Industry and science institutes need to push EU officials to establish a guidance document - a white paper - on risk management. If not, my latest argues, no EU policy will be workable. An EU Ultra-Processed Food Directive would ban all packaged foods. www.thefirebreak.org/p/toward-an-...

If the EU Commission uses its understanding of risk management in a hazard-based #UltraProcessedFood Directive, any food that's packaged will have to be banned. My latest argues before any further EU regulations, they produce a White Paper on Risk Management. www.thefirebreak.org/p/toward-an-...

In the #SlimeGate whistleblower exposé into the litigation finance industry, the real villains are the partners. They hire young analysts to do their dark, dirty work while they move among the Predatorts looking for more sinister ways to rip everyone off. risk-monger.com/2025/10/27/s...

I guess I wasn't on Michael Bloomberg's approved list. It was silly of me to think the FCTC, or the WHO for that matter, would be interested in gathering a wider range of experiences, perspectives and ideas. #Vapocrisy #Censorship #Denormalization #Tobacconization

My latest with the litigation finance whistleblower revealed some interesting information. If a court awards a plaintiff $2 million, the lenders step in and take $1 million. These are bloody loan sharks!!! It is not about the victims. #SlimeGate #Predatort risk-monger.com/2025/10/27/s...

See Part 1 from my meetings with a former analyst at a large litigation finance company. His revelations fill in many blanks on their corrupt, unethical practices. #SlimeGate is my largest research work and this exposé is perhaps its most important contribution. risk-monger.com/2025/10/27/s...

Scientist: Explore, discover, test, verify, develop, innovate, improve lives. Journalist: Control F "conspiracy word". My latest asks: Which one adds value to humanity? Why do we let integrity-challenged journalists like Emily Kopp destroy trust in science? www.thefirebreak.org/p/journalist...

Activists and journalists have a distortion playbook they use to destroy trust in science and generate fear and outrage. They take a responsible and precise answer from a scientist and manipulate it. Monsanto, Exxon, now Tylenol. This tactic never gets old. www.thefirebreak.org/p/journalist...

EFSA ripped into the poor methodology, unreliable results and background contamination of most studies into microplastic and nanoplastic exposures. Their most damning critique of these activist scientists' scare tactics: Get some perspective on relative risks. www.thefirebreak.org/p/eu-food-sc...

EFSA published a literature review on studies claiming exposures to #microplastics and #nanoplastics. They concluded most studies had poor methodologies, over-estimated findings and lab contaminations making any conclusions unreliable. The media missed this www.thefirebreak.org/p/eu-food-sc...

The last #Vapocrisy is the worst: vindictive health officials reject harm reduction tools and accept more smoking, illness and unregulated black markets. Vapers are left alone to reduce their risks and manage their health with no help from health officials www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

How many times have we heard: "We're raising taxes on tobacco to pay the increased health costs for smokers". If that's the case, don't tax e-cigarettes since they reduce health costs. Maybe that's why regulators pretend vapes have health risks. #vapocrisy www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

Prohibition tells us if your regulations are unreasonable, people break the law. We're Al-Caponizing the vaping trade, denying rational options and unable to control quality. The violence and law-breaking in the Australian experience was a lesson to us all. www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

The WHO keeps saying they welcome inputs on lived experiences of NCDs. But if vapers want to tell the story of how tobacco harm reduction products allowed them to stop smoking, the WHO censors them. Scientists? Not allowed Pro-vaping advocates? Not allowed www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

Vape CBD oils? No problem at all! It's not about harm reduction. It's not about protecting health. It's not about addiction. Anti-vaping zealots are still fighting a war against Big Tobacco companies and the #vapocrites don't care how many people die. www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

Prohibitionists never learn. They think if they ban a substance like nicotine to "protect the children", there is no further need to regulate or control its use. Right... Other products are regulated to control the use by youths, why not vaping? #vapocrisy www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

If you want to solve the obesity crisis, just order all food to be bland - no flavor, no texture, no aroma. Stupid idea? Then why are we letting the zealots remove vaping flavors when people are trying to quit smoking tobacco? That's #vapocrisy. www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

Addiction experts want you to believe addiction is bad and must be controlled. What if an addiction wasn't harmful? What if one addictive habit was far less harmful than another? Banning nicotine because it's addictive while not banning caffeine is #vapocrisy. www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

My latest Seed World column looks at reorganisations in the seed and pesticide industries We've done this dance before in the 90s and 00s. I argue that splitting up the businesses may make sense for shareholders, but not the food value chain, farmers and researchers www.seedworld.com/europe/2025/...

Why do we force people to go outside to vape? If vaping ingredients are harmless to vapers, there is no issue with second-hand smoke. So why do activists fighting against tobacco harm reduction vilify vaping? Because they're relentless, heartless zealots! www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

In preparation for the WHO"s #FCTC COP 11, The Firebreak's series on Tobacco Harm Reduction is examining the hypocrisy of anti-nicotine activist campaigns. Part 1 of #Vapocrisy shows health insurers profiting from smokers rather than helping them quit. www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

How can health professionals in positions of power behave so stupidly? It didn't start with RFK Jr and his band of merry men at HHS. It's been going on for more than a decade with the WHO's irrational war on tobacco harm reduction. My latest calls it #Vapocrisy www.thefirebreak.org/p/vapocrisy

In what world could billionaires fund academic law NGOs who pay their activist fellows to execute lawsuits on behalf of US states? A Special Assistant Attorney General can litigate on behalf of governments, in service to the billionaire and not the people. www.thefirebreak.org/p/can-mike-b...

Tobacco harm reduction takes a rational approach to precaution and risk management. The European Commission doesn't use precaution rationally. It's guided by activists, zealots and prohibitionists - interest groups intent on banning products without evidence. www.thefirebreak.org/p/the-precau...

As the European Commission prepares to revise the #TobaccoProductsDirective, my latest looks at why anti-nicotine activists are pushing for a hazard-based precautionary approach. This will work against rational risk management and harm reduction strategies. www.thefirebreak.org/p/the-precau...

In January, The Firebreak predicted that the #NetZeroBankingAlliance would shut down in months. OK, it took 8 months. www.thefirebreak.org/p/the-zero-b... As the climate industrial complex slowly winds down, will the CDP be next? Why would anyone pay them anymore? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

In May, Trump signed an executive order to restore #GoldStandardScience. RFK Jr has been touting this each time he condemns his regulatory scientists. Does the main paper RFK used to link Tylenol to autism meet this gold standard? My latest scored it 0 for 9. www.thefirebreak.org/p/gold-stand...

Greed and grift inside the White House is getting widespread as an aging leader loses touch. Three more years of this opportunistic plunder will lead to irreparable decline. www.thefirebreak.org/p/tylenotort...

Precaution is uncertainty management, not risk management. Unless you can prove it's safe, we can't have it. With this approach, vaping isn't considered for its harm reduction (risk management) thus we can't allow it. The irony is that choosing vaping instead of smoking is a precautionary decision

It's not like science ... something you can ignore at your leisure. First you create a crisis. Then shut down the checks and balances. And take away all of the rights and freedoms. They'll thank you for that.

We are so naive. Litigation finance investors hide in dark shadows, profiting from the billions they pump into the tort law industry, buying NGOs, scientists, media and now, government administrators. And we praise them for keeping us safe. #TylenoTort www.thefirebreak.org/p/tylenotort...

The litigation industry is running the Trump White House. My latest adds details on how: - the Tylenol-autism correlation was orchestrated by lawyers suing Kenvue - their scientist published their research - litigation finance investors are pulling the strings... www.thefirebreak.org/p/tylenotort...

Watch 30 minutes of Monger on the loose I kept pushing poor Brent down my favourite rabbit holes: - caffeine risks - precaution - safe and safer - post-capitalism - 2nd slowest zebra - green Marxists - foundation funding - activist hypocrisy - and what would happen if PMI started selling cannabis

The WHO is holding their Fourth High-Level Meeting on NCDs #HLM4 tomorrow as a side-event at the UN General Assembly. Nothing will happen. No health solutions will be achieved. My latest explains why the WHO's dogmatic handcuffs leaves it destined to failure. www.thefirebreak.org/p/failed-amb...

Should China trust the West in trade negotiations? If history is anything to go by, the answer is "absolutely not". My latest shows how the Opium Wars history makes it certain that China will never again compromise with a West they see as corrupted. www.thefirebreak.org/p/the-opium-...

How many times since April have US trade negotiators said they're close to a successful deal with China. Weeks go by ... then nothing. How well do we understand what the Chinese think of us? My latest looks at how the #OpiumWars will affect any trade deal. www.thefirebreak.org/p/the-opium-...

It would be less awful if #HealthJusticeVigilantes were merely trying to prevent diseases and keep you healthy. They're just fighting industry, lobbying to change regulations and earn tort lawsuit litigation consulting fees. Vindictive and vengeful. www.thefirebreak.org/p/health-jus...