Colin Berry
Professor Sir Colin Berry is professor of morbid anatomy and histopathology at Queen Mary, University of London. He spoke on the subject of 'The future of risk' at the Spiked conference, "Panic attack: Interrogating our obsession with risk", on Friday 9 May 2003, at the Royal Institution in London.[1]
In an article for Spiked, subtitled, "why the precautionary principle - the substitution of prejudice for data - leads to irrational convictions", Berry wrote:
- In the context of the safety of our day-to-day environment, we have become highly risk-averse. Our obsession with very small risks has reached a stage that results in damage to society.[2]
Affiliations
- Scientific Alliance - member of advisory board[3]
- Sense About Science - advisory council member[4]
- Spiked - shareholder (see Spiked)
Notes
- ↑ Professor Sir Colin Berry, Risk, science and society, Spiked, 1 Nov 2001, acc 29 May 2010
- ↑ Professor Sir Colin Berry, Risk, science and society, Spiked, 1 Nov 2001, acc 29 May 2010
- ↑ Scientific Advisory Forum, Scientific Alliance website, version placed in web archive 30 Aug 2006, accessed in web archive 16 Dec 2009
- ↑ Advisory Council, SAS website, acc 29 May 2010
