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Re: Precautionary Principle Applied to Lung Cancer Risk Caused by Residential...

To: epirad@mchsi.com, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Precautionary Principle Applied to Lung Cancer Risk Caused by Residential...
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:54:39 EDT
Reply-To: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
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The trouble with the "precautionary principle" is that it does not consider relative risk, and looks at risks one at a time. In particular with respect to radon, how important is mitigating the radon risks compared to mitigating other risks? The "precautionary principle" appears to fasten on to whatever is bothering people at the moment and say "we need to mitigate this because of the precautionary principle").

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com

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