Tag: precautionary principle
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How Activism Distorts The Assessment Of Health Risks
Forbes: How Activism Distorts The Assessment Of Health Risks The International Agency for Research on Cancer is renowned for producing assessments of carcinogens. But it appears that some of the agency’s evaluations may overstate the risks, for reasons that tell us a great deal about the science and politics of risk assessment. It is a…
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New Climate for Science (Part 1)
The climate change topic has been "heating up" again in the press, so it seems to be a good time to offer a few thoughts I have had regarding science and public policy. Part of what got me thinking about this a few weeks ago was reading Anthony Giddens' exceptional little book Runaway World: How…