Our leaders govern today with precautionary pixie dust
Tag: Precaution
The Top Ten KeystoneCorona Moments of 2020: Part 10/10 – Limiting Scientific Advice
If you only get advice from one scientific field, are your decisions sound?
The Post-COVID-19 Blueprint (Part 3.2): The Seven Key Steps of Risk Management
Of the 7 key steps in risk management, none were applied in the COVID-19 crisis.
Why Precautionary COVID-19 Lockdowns Failed Humanity
A world demanding zero risk can’t manage risks. We’re in trouble.
The Post-COVID-19 Blueprint (Part 1): How Precaution Failed
Precaution is not a risk management tool. Why it failed to manage COVID-19.
Naturopathy and Virtue Signalling
This rising sense of purpose is an opportunity for gurus and marketers.
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.
Generation AIDS
I came of age during the AIDS crisis – we need to understand how that event has shaped the leaders now in power.
Risk-based or Hazard-based Regulation
Risk School: Difference between risk-based and hazard -based regulation
The Risk-Monger 