Safety, Security and Quality: Lessons from GMO Risk Assessments

摘要: Indeed, governments find themselves in the contradictory role of speeding up technoscientific innovation, order to maintain market share and hence economic survival globalized competition system, slowing down very same process, keep ensuring one main pillars modern states: safety. Concurrently, as we will see, scientific research carries out equivalent conflicting task producing knowledge for innovation regulation. Finally, citizens demand safety, but reassuring certainty they require, paradoxically undermines confidence hold capacity state ensure this fundamental right; indeed, admitting a danger seems more trust worthy than declaring absence risks, especially after major crises regulatory such bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). In these epistemic normative tensions defined “Triple Catch 23” by British philosopher Jerome Ravetz (Ravetz, 2003) new relationships between science, society governance need be investigated implemented (De Marchi & Ravetz, 1999).