What is the most prominent science-based principle that influences international law today? The answer is undoubtedly the precautionary principle, which aims to promote only those policies whose ...
How the WHO Cancer Research Agency Misinforms Regulation and Litigation is a wonderful brief on how the International Agency ...
The “precautionary principle” affects global agreements involving environmental, health, and safety policy, yet it has been widely criticized as arbitrary, excessive, counterproductive, and ...
The world is witnessing an increase in the number and severity of hurricanes, droughts, floods and famines. A significant part of this is attributable to the temperature rises and disruption to the ...
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 ...
[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 concept of a universal precautionary principle apparently has its origins in early German and Swedish thinking about environmental policy, particularly the need for policymakers to practice ...
SAN FRANCISCO is poised to become the first city in the nation to adopt the Precautionary Principle -- a new policy framework widely used in western and northern European countries for developing laws ...
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 ...
Deploying the precautionary principle is a laser-focused way to kill off any new technology. As it happens, a new bill in the Hawaii Legislature explicitly applies the precautionary principle in ...
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 ...