Colin Berry
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Professor Sir Colin Berry is emeritus professor of pathology at Queen Mary University of London.ref>Kate Kelland, Mixed message on weed-killer reflects reality of scientific uncertainty, Reuters, 17 Nov 2015, acc 19 Nov 2015</ref> 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
In a press interview in which he defended the safety of glyphosate herbicide, Berry declared "an interest as having acted as a consultant for Monsanto", a company that makes and markets glyphosate herbicides.[3]
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[4]
Lobby groups
- Scientific Alliance - member of advisory board[5]
- Sense About Science - advisory council member[6]
- Spiked - shareholder of Spiked Ltd[7]
- Research Defence Society Honorary Vice-President circa 2007-8[8]
- International Policy Network member of the Advisory Council of IPN’s Campaign for Fighting Diseases fightingdiseases.org, circa 2008[9]
Misc
- Steering Committee of the European Science Open Forum[4]
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
- ↑ Kate Kelland, Mixed message on weed-killer reflects reality of scientific uncertainty, Reuters, 17 Nov 2015, acc 19 Nov 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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
- ↑ International Policy Network EU pesticide ban will raise food prices without improving health, says former government scientist FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 24 October 2008 To interview Professor Sir Colin Berry, contact: Caroline Boin (UK) Environment Programme Director, International Policy Network +44 20 7836 0750 caroline@policynetwork.net
