Re: The Precautionary Principle

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

The so-called "precautionary principle" got elevated to the status of 

"principle" after about 20 years of making "conservative" estimates of 

environmental and health damage -- overestimating damage -- in the absence of 

good data for actually assessing such damage.  The good old LNT is an example 

of its application.  The application has led to enormous expenditures of 

resources to mitigate putative small risks.  It's applied in virtually every 

environmental assessment that involves radioactive materials.


Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com