3 Citations
Demystifying Evidence-Based Policy Analysis by Revealing Hidden Value-Laden Constraints.
- PsychologyThe Hastings Center report
- 2018
The central assertion of this essay is that, throughout policy analysis but especially in assessments of the costs and benefits of regulating versus encouraging new technologies (cost-benefit analysis, or CBA), the first possibility above is a mirage, and the second and third are self-contradictory.
Minimal Risk in Pediatric Research: A Philosophical Review and Reconsideration
- MedicineAccountability in research
- 2017
It is suggested that a more defensible approach to evaluating risk should incorporate room for reflection and deliberation, and can nonetheless accommodate a number of intellectual resources for reducing reliance on sheer intuition and improving the quality of risk evaluations.
Unlocking the Deadlocks? GMOs, Science and the Reform of the Legal Framework
- Political Science
- 2016
The hydra is in many ways a well-working allegory for the numerous conflicts the EU has been facing in the GMO authorization process, and in particular regarding the complex deadlocks in the…