The Precautionary Principle Meets the Hill Criteria of Causation

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Ethics, Policy and Environment 22 (1):72-89 (2019)
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This article examines the relationship between the precautionary principle and the well-known Hill criteria of causation. Some have charged that the Hill criteria are anti-precautionary because the...

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10.1080/21550085.2019.1581420

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