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The One Video to Watch on Climate, If You Have Just 3 Minutes

A project by Rupert Read who coauthored ‘Climate models and precautionary measures‘ with NNT (among others).

The Precautionary Principle applied to Climate problems in the presence of model error

  https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/622764064977104896 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/622752410486874112 The Precautionary Principle applied to Climate problems in the presence of model error. pic.twitter.com/WpLqvzqHpr And this is the mathematical backup of why more skepticism should increase precaution, not other way around https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/mathbehindpp.pdf

Finally, our Precautionary Principle (with Application to GMOs) Is on ArXiv (without the math)

Finally, our Precautionary Principle (with Application to GMOs) Is on ArXiv (without the math). We thank all the people here who helped with the development and refinement of the idea. http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5787 [1410.5787] The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms) via Finally, our Precautionary Principle (with… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

So, finally, after our Precautionary paper, a GMO (Monsanto) lobbyist…

So, finally, after our Precautionary paper, a GMO (Monsanto) lobbyist (name: Val Giddings) seems to be after us, with naive demonization techniques, very elementary efforts at delegitimizing me in person. I thought we were doing something wrong before that. But the problem is that the fellow is not very skilled at it and can’t seem […]

The latest version of our precautionary principle…

The latest version of our precautionary principle, with application to GMOs, refined thanks to more fallacies in arguments countering it. For discussion before we move to the final version. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/edit?usp=docslist_api via The latest version of our precautionary… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.