[Based on forthcoming article in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 14 Issue 1, Winter 2013, http://mjlst.umn.edu] In my previous column I noted ...

The “precautionary principle” affects global agreements involving environmental, health, and safety policy, yet it has been widely criticized as arbitrary, excessive, counterproductive, and ...

Today is the first full day of IUCN's 5th World Conservation Congress. Taking place on the beautiful Korean island of Jeju, the Congress brings together a fascinating mix of people from all parts of ...

Ignoring the achievements of modern science and technology, European bureaucrats and American environmental activists have embraced a doctrine fundamentally at odds with common sense. The doctrine is ...

The genetic modification debate has given new life to what is being called the "precautionary principle," which claims that if the possible adverse consequences are catastrophic, then preventive ...

The CDC just announced the pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the U.S. because of six blood clots among seven million people vaccinated. If you're shaking your head trying to figure out why the ...

In order to protect the environment the Precautionary Approach is widely applied: fundamentally, where there are potentially grave or irreversible threats, lack of full scientific certainty shall not ...

Rupert Read is affiliated with the Green Party. He receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, in his capacity as Principal Investigator on the 2016-18 'Debating Nature's Value' ...

While working on a chapter dealing with the precautionary principle for a new book, I came across a superb essay in The Freeman from economics Nobelist Friedrich Hayek, The Case for Freedom. Taken ...

While he correctly states that the principle places the burden of proof on new products and procedures, he erroneously asserts it demands that their safety be proven “absolutely”. In reality, the ...

This was to strive for a global definition of the precautionary principle, at leastin so far as its use in the area of food safety was concerned, my own direct area of responsibility. I believed that ...

TOO OFTEN, criticisms of the precautionary principle are viewed as attacks on environmentalism, or the failure to put human health above the profits of industry (C&EN, Jan. 12, page 3). What must be ...