Sir, -The precautionary principle is well known in environmental science circles.

Above all, the precautionary principle encourages evasion of responsibility for the status quo.

Since 2007 UK consumers have been protected by the EU's " precautionary principle".

The starship's seedbanks included many species, on the precautionary principle.

Everything he was doing now merely served a precautionary principle.

This is part of a series on the precautionary principle.

The precautionary principle does seem to me to be wise.

The precautionary principle misleads us into thinking it is.

Even today the precautionary principle arguably remains anchored in the static world-view implied by this injunction.

And Monbiot is fair to criticise Walport for a rather lazy caricature of the precautionary principle.

In that context, the precautionary principle looks like a childish desire to simplify, with tokens and talismans.

The consensus is not absolute but the evidence is certainly strong enough for the precautionary principle to apply.

There are really two kind of competing principles here, one is the precautionary principle: If in doubt, don't.

Each summer I am asked for ways of destroying wasps' nests sometimes, it seems, on an unduly precautionary principle.

The Green party called it a betrayal of the precautionary principle which obliges regulatory caution if there is scientific doubt.

Its impact on wellbeing is largely unknown: should the precautionary principle apply or is the danger of global warming too great?