Rob Lyons: precautionary tales

Life is a
contact sport.

If you don't play, you can't win. Reining in experimentation carries the risk of not making life-enhancing breakthroughs.

This site is mostly a look at the dangers of the precautionary principle, and unfounded panics, through science and health news stories.


SOME ARTICLES BY ROB LYONS
Recycling religion
Why we should take morality out of waste management.
Happy New Fear
The things that scared us silly in 2002.
Putting Zambia through the mill
Europe's green prejudices have caused the Zambian government to reject GM food aid.
Mad cow Japanic
The Japanese BSE scare seems even more irrational than the British version.
Bar, car, black sheep
Drink driving might be antisocial, but the UK government's response is out of all proportion.
 
OTHER SITES
spiked
My day job: website with the mere ambition to change the world
Brendan O'Neill
spiked colleague and A-list blogger. Honest.
JunkScience
Steve Milloy's rolling log of science news and sceptical commentaries
Social Issues Research Centre
A sceptical view of health panics in the UK
 
CONTACT
email Rob
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