Precautionary Principle

Category
Mitigating
Description

“If an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public, or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus (that the action or policy is not harmful), the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking an action that may or may not be a risk.”

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Source

Gabriel Weinberg's Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful