X-Message-Number: 23472 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:51:36 -0800 From: Natasha Vita-More <> Subject: Event: Precautionary Principle Featured at VP Summit Tonight! Greetings! This evening is the on-line chat discussing/debating Prof. Michael D. Shapiro's statement in response to the use of the Precautionary Principle as a rallying tool against biotechnology. Join in at http://summit.extropy.org and go to the "Chat." "...a plausible precautionary principle would counsel us to take precautions in adopting any given current version of a precautionary principle." (Shapiro, 2004) A little about Prof. Shapiro: Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law School; Visiting Professor, Yale Law School; Member, Pacific Council for Health Policy and Ethics; Reviewer, U.S. Department of Energy (Proposals to Study the Human Genome Project), 1990-92; Advisory Panel to the Joint Committee on Surrogate Parenting of the California Legislature, 1989. Don't let the futrue stop progress! Natasha Vita-More ---------- President, Extropy Institute Join the Vital Progress ("VP") Summit on the Internet February 15-29, 2004 About the VP Summit http://www.extropy.org/summitabout.htm Register for the VP Summit http://www.extropy.org/membership.htm Your generous donation of $15.00 will go toward producing the deliverables of the VP Summit and your name will be added to the list of supporters for Vital Progress. ---------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23472