Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

The precautionary principle can be paralyzing, while in contrastbalancing costs against benefitsmay offer the foundation of an approach for making difficult decisions.

Anew book from the AEI Press provides insight into the precautionary principle and how it has been used in one prominent legal system.

Jon Entine is available for comment on his book Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?

This study examines how the European Union has used the precautionary principle in legal decisions.

Our culture is in the grip of the “precautionary principle.” From agricultural biotechnology and biomedicine to geopolitics, international business, education, and our most intimate relationships, risk aversion has become a defining and paralyzing ethic of our time. The notion that we should forsake the products and benefits of new...

This incisive volume considers the impact of precautionary standards on international food security policies and explores its possible unintended consequences--including environmental degradation, the spread of disease, and a hungrier world.

This event will discuss the European Union's recent consensus to institute new criteria that could ultimately blacklist about fifteen percent of the EU pesticides market used by the agricultural and pest control industries.