Colin Berry
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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
Science bodies
- 2003 - 2005 President British Academy of Forensic Sciences
- 1990 - 1994 Member of the Medical Research Council of Great Britain
- 1989 – 1991 European Society of Pathology
- 1976 - 1971 Developmental Pathology Society[3]
Lobby groups
- Scientific Alliance - member of advisory board[4]
- Sense About Science - advisory council member[5]
- Spiked - shareholder of Spiked Ltd[6]
- Research Defence Society Honorary Vice-President circa 2007-8[7]
Misc
- Steering Committee of the European Science Open Forum[3]
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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina Curriculum Vitae ProfessorDr. Colin Berry, accessed 27 August 2013
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Companies House, Spiked Ltd. AR01 Annual Return 2010
- ↑ Research defence Society Structure, retrieved from the Internet Archive of 28 September 2007, on 27 August 2013
