{"id":7303,"date":"2014-11-28T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7303"},"modified":"2014-11-28T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T20:04:12","slug":"talebs-the-precautionary-principle-with-application-to-gmos-advocacy-masquerading-as-rational-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/talebs-the-precautionary-principle-with-application-to-gmos-advocacy-masquerading-as-rational-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Taleb\u2019s \u201cThe Precautionary Principle (with application to GMOs)\u201d. Advocacy Masquerading as Rational Argument."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Precautionary Principle (with application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms) suggests that GMOs pose a \u201cruin\u201d problem, \u201cin which a system is at risk of total failure\u201d. Taleb and colleagues believe that the risks from GMOs, even if small, can mount up and spread because our agricultural and natural systems are globally connected. So even though each risk may be \u201csmall and reasonable\u201d, they \u201caccumulate inevitably to certain irreversible harm.\u201d Taleb et.al. say these potential threats pose the \u201crisk of global harm\u201d. Not just local harm, which we can live with, but global.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that these characteristics warrant a strong Precautionary Principle approach, essentially a ban on GMOs, at least while much more research is done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@dropeik.com\/on-taleb-et-al-s-the-precautionary-principle-with-application-to-the-genetic-modification-of-dba21ccf94aa\">On Taleb et.al.\u2019s \u201cThe Precautionary Principle (with application to the Genetic Modification of\u2026 \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Precautionary Principle (with application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms) suggests that GMOs pose a \u201cruin\u201d problem, \u201cin which a system is at risk of total failure\u201d. Taleb and colleagues believe that the risks from GMOs, even if small, can mount up and spread because our agricultural and natural systems are globally connected. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[846,791,753,847],"class_list":["post-7303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-david-ropeik","tag-gmos","tag-precautionary-principle","tag-ruin-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}