* Posts by Josh Bell

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MPs declare their ignorance on the web

Josh Bell
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Probability of risk?!

"If one looks for empirical, hard, factual evidence [of harm], there is very little. Our view was therefore not ... 'we cannot act,' but that we should act on the probability of risk."

Or on video games: "Part of the problem with video games ... is that there is no hard evidence ... Nevertheless, we agree that there is a probability that [harm] could occur, and there is anecdotal evidence."

Probability of risk? There's a probability of risk of people putting a fork in an electrical socket, but you don't see MP's removing them from your house!