All Entries Tagged With: "Precautionary Principle"
Swine Flu H1N1: WHO declares the invented pandemic to be over
by Edgar L. Gärtner Political correctness undermines credibility Following the suggestions of her strong emergency committee, WHO General-Director Margaret Chan now officially declares the swine flu epidemic to be over. This official statement was made 15 months after an allegedly new flu virus H1N1 was notified in Mexico and after having alerted a pandemic in [...]
Proper Precautions
by Einar Du Rietz “Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups”, my former colleague, the environmental affairs director, liked to quote his favourite actor Steven Seagal as saying. It could be read as an argument for the precautionary principle of course, but it could also be interpreted as an argument for precaution against political action. There’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
