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Friday, June 18, 2004....if the precautionary principle had been about for the past 200 years rather than the past 20, breakthroughs such as blood transfusions would ever have been made. 'I certainly don't think we would have radiotherapy or the various applications of x-rays if Marie Curie had been under pressure to comply with the precautionary principle', he says. In the early twentieth century, Polish-born physicist and chemist Curie devoted her working life to the study of radium, paving the way for nuclear physics and the treatment of cancer. It cost her her life - she died from leukaemia in 1934, almost blind, her fingers burned by radium. 'Curie's work caused her 'irreversible harm'', says Berry. 'The precautionary principle would not have permitted her to take such risks, and the world would have been a worse place for it.' No guts no glory. posted by Sydney on 6/18/2004 11:03:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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