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Old 22-May-2008, 04:12 PM
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[Snip!] So you may be comfortable trusting your betters to always make the right decision for you; I am not. I would like to see some sort of international agreement for evaluating the risks.
And who will these people evaluating the risks be under this "international agreement" of yours? The scientists that you evidently do not trust to make the evaluation? Politicians? A good way to lower the risk by getting nothing done! Or maybe the CEOs of large multinational conglomerates? (A good way to guarantee that it gets done risk or no as long as there's money to be made! ) A dozen or so people off the street with no qualifications to judge, who must be educated on the topic so they can perform the evaluation? And who will teach these people? Who decides who teaches these people? Ad nauseam ...

Enough I say!
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