Thursday, January 20, 2011

Precautionary Principle

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The precautionary principle states that
if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm
to the public or to the environment,
in the absence of scientific consensus,
that the action or policy is harmful,
the burden of proof that it is not harmful
falls on those taking the action.
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Source: Wikipedia, January 20, 2011
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