Re: [ECOLOG-L] Risk assessment in climate change

2009-03-05 Thread Chris Rosamond
In Response to Mr Welker; I would strongly suspect that a person who disapproves of the "precautionary principle" would be a man of action, a man of his word..which is why we should expect you to be the person who volunteers to take untested pharmaceuticals before they have undergone the F

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Palin laughs at fruit fly research

2008-10-29 Thread Chris Rosamond
Regarding Mr Cherubini's contrarian comments regarding basic science and the lack of obvious economic benefit to society, we should always recall the Japanese physicist who, at the outset of WWII, had all his funding cut off because he was working on the "ridiculous" subject matter of nuclear ph

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Insecticide Decimates Tadpole Populations Through the Food Chain

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Rosamond
re good, then 4 must be better". I think what Relyea's study is trying to tell us is that we should employ the precautionary principle here, due to the fact that the history of pesticide toxicology hell has long been paved with good intentions. Chris Rosamond > Date: Fri, 3