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24 Or. Rev. Int'l L. 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/porril24 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLES GEORGE P. SMITH, 11* Restricting Scientific Legitimacy in the Age of Biotechnology? Abstract................................................................................................ 2 I. Introduction and Overview: Containing Technology ........... 3 II. Shaping Policy ..................................................................... 6 A. Good or Evil Consequences?...................................... 10 B . W hole Science ............................................................ 12 C . Junk Science ............................................................... 12 III. The Science of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Case in Point.. 15 IV. A New EPA Regulation: Toward an Ethic of Protection........ 17 V . G enetic M odifications........................................................ 18 VI. Codifying an Ethic of Care: International and Domestic G uidelines ...................................................................... . . 2 1 A . International G uidance.....................................................21 B . D om estic A ction ........................................................ 22 VII. The Precautionary Principle: An Ethic of Restraint or of P recaution ? ...................................................................... . . 23 A. Judicial Recognition of the Precautionary Principle .......26 B. Geopolitics and the Precautionary Principle................27 VIII. The Outreach of Daubert and Scientific Evidence: Judicial B efuddlem ent ...................................................................... 28 A. Alternative Approaches to Judicial Decision-Making..... 31 B. Participatory Democracy: Educating the Public.......... 32 C on clu sion ................................................................................... . . 34 * Professor Emeritus of Law, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., Resident Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Points of Contact: smithg@cua.edu, 202-319-5162, Washington, D.C. [ll