Comments on: How to tell policymakers about scientific uncertainty http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/01/23/how-to-tell-policymakers-about-scientific-uncertainty/ Advancing ecology and making it count Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jonathan http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/01/23/how-to-tell-policymakers-about-scientific-uncertainty/#comment-5168 Jonathan Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:43:22 +0000 http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=2383#comment-5168 This brings me back to the start of my career when I was then at the BMA. The first winner of the COPUS (then Rhone-Poulenc, then Aventis) Royal Society popular science book was back in 1988 with the book “Living with Risk” published by the BMA Board of Science…

Understanding risk in a scientific way has long been an issue.

What saddens me a tad today is that few seem to understand the difference between ‘risk’ and ‘hazard’.

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