What is wrong with the precautionary principle? What is right about it?
Category: Risk School
The Possibilist Principle: How Brussels Became a Hazard-based Activist Playground
How did we ever get to the madness of a hazard-based precautionary policy approach? Through those relentless possibilists.
The importance of trust in our decisions
We cannot support something or someone we don’t trust. As Hillary is finding out, trust is essential.
Generation AIDS
I came of age during the AIDS crisis – we need to understand how that event has shaped the leaders now in power.
Banalising the Risk Perception of Endocrine Disruption
Two decades of nonsense on endocrine disruption has brought good business to chemophobic NGOs, but a rather pointless fear for the rest of us. The issue needs to be “banalised”.
Risk Aversion and the Curse of Expediency
Expediency: the “art of making something go away” has become the main political virtue in Brussels. This has allowed contrapreneurs to win on issues.
What is Innovation and Why is it so Hard?
Does Europe understand what innovation is? Do we share an entrepreneurial spirit across Europe or are we hidebound by contrapreneurs? Do we need an “Innovation Principle”?
The Growing Risk of Contrapreneurs
Contrapreneur: One who is risk averse, creates fears and seeks to inhibit innovation
Risk-based or Hazard-based Regulation
Risk School: Difference between risk-based and hazard -based regulation
Do Facts Matter?
Re-publication of a blog from 2010, ten years after a series of projects were launched to try to bring facts back into policy debates and press coverage. The Risk-Monger hung his head in shame and admitted defeat.
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