The Hazard of a Scientific Approach to Risk: Commentary on Professor Lofstedt's Proposal for a European Parliamentary Working Group on Risk

摘要

There exists considerable, some might say circular, scholarship on the comparative ills or benefits of the precautionary approach to risk regulation. It has been said with no small degree of wisdom that the transatlantic debate over precaution "is a debate about rhetoric and rivalry"(1) and that "the notion of the U.S.-EU precaution gap may persist because people imbue it with their own normative slants—even if it does not actually exist or the reality is far more textured."(2)