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But, what about the precautionary principle….No matter how many tests are success full. I will always be able to dream up a potential source of horrible danger.
And this from the European Academies Science Advisory Council :
“The misuse of the precautionary principle has led to restrictive legislation and both a political and market mistrust of genetically
modified organisms (GMOs).
This has had a profound chilling effect on both public and private investment for European agricultural research”
But, what about the precautionary principle….No matter how many tests are success full. I will always be able to dream up a potential source of horrible danger.
And this from the European Academies Science Advisory Council :
“The misuse of the precautionary principle has led to restrictive legislation and both a political and market mistrust of genetically
modified organisms (GMOs).
This has had a profound chilling effect on both public and private investment for European agricultural research”
Doesn’t sound like good public policy to me.
Perhaps we could name a new fallacy “The Perpetual Paranoid Principle fallacy”