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Correspondence
Nature 401, 207 (16 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/45656
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Søren Holm and John Harris strongly criticize the precautionary principle but they seem not to understand it (Nature 400, 398; 1999). They complain that it is not valid for evaluating evidence, when that is not what it is for.
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