Legal Commentary

Brian Leiter links to a paper by a group of law professors, writing through the Center for Progressive Reform, raising concerns about Cass Sunstein's likely role as the head of OIRA.  I was interested in this sentence, which the authors offer up in the course of criticizing Sunstein's skeptical views about the precautionary principle: "It is difficult to think of a single public health or environmental threat that with the benefit of additional research has not proven even more dangerous over time."