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Flight bans: A lesson about the Precautionary Principle

by Edgar L. Gärtner Just in time before the first business failures caused by several-day-long flight losses, the air traffic in Western and Central Europe slowly got off the ground after the complete flight ban. A good opportunity to take stock and to summarise what one can learn from the political crisis caused by a [...]

April 27, 2010 | Edgar Gaertner | Comments 0 |

Prevention is not Always Better than The Cure

by Edgar L. Gärtner Lessons about Precaution from the Swine Flu Vaccine Fiasco The French government under the ever-energized President Nicolas Sarkozy became aware at the beginning of the year that it was threatened to sit on more than 90 million doses of Swine flu vaccine, hastily ordered last year to face an allegedly advancing pandemic. Only [...]

January 15, 2010 | Edgar Gaertner | Comments 0 |