Reviews for Hazardous Materials Compliance Manual

The average rating for Hazardous Materials Compliance Manual based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-05-18 00:00:00 Adam Beauchamp Philosophy books tend to be dry and dense but some aren't, this was in the gray area in between. The topic is tort law as it relates to scientific practice and methodology. It's epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge and in this case, a very useful and modern area of the field. Some of his areas of focus are what qualifies a study as relevant or good evidence. He examines the relations of science to the court, where the scientific ignorance of juries, and especially judges, harms the proceedings. Especially in light of the landmark Daubert decision among others. He defends animal testing as an accurate testing method. He favors expert testimony but recognizes the complexities behind it and provides a number of possible solutions. He places high priority on trusting and collaborating with the scientific community. He's also biased towards plaintiffs and I am too more for social anti-corporate reasons- corporations have all the power here and don't get held accountable enough. His analysis is pretty uncontroversial, I suspect most would agree with him, and this is a good, perhaps necessary book, for any scientist or legal worker getting involved in the field.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-23 00:00:00 Eric Speirs There are no Sacred Cows for Sagoff. He brings all the skepticism of a philosopher to bear on the environmental movement. The result is a dismantling of many of its long-held truths, a deep investigation into the relationship between man and nature, and a defense of nature's aesthetic relation to man as its primary value-- one which cannot be translated into dollars (or Willingness To Pay). Since this book reversed many of my views on the subject and gave me plenty of food for thought, I have to recommend it to everyone, particularly environmentalists, conservationists and leftists. All such folks (particularly the latter) are likely to greet a text like this with suspicion. Be as suspicious as you like: you'll find nothing but good reasoning and wide reading in Sagoff's writing. If some of what we hold to be true on the topic is not, then it's time to modify our position to be as effective as possible. Most of all, I recommend this text to anyone who languishes in misery at a future of impending ecological collapse, overpopulation or resource exhaustion. There is none of that stupid ad hoc optimism we so often see justifying the status quo in this book. There is rather a healthy, honest introspection on what's really going on. All the better if you should feel a little less miserable upon figuring that out.