Dr. Michael Gough
Posted in: Environment/Transportation Policy, Legal/Regulatory/Judicial
Consultant , N/A6404 East Halbert Road
Bethesda MD
20817-5423
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Biography
Retired as director of science and risk studies at Cato Institute in 1999.Currently focusing on replacing assumption-based risk assessment practices with scientifically sound methods, promoting biotechnology and other advances in agriculture as means to preserve biodiversity and restoring the credibility of science as a method of obtaining knowledge.
Academic Background
B.A.: Grinnell College (Biology).Ph.D.: Brown University (Biology).
Publications or Presentations
Dioxin, Agent Orange (New York, N.Y.: Plenum Press, 1986).Co-editor, Readings in Risk (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
Co-author, Silencing Science (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1999).
Issue Specialities
Risk, regulations, scientific method, risk assessment, biotechnology, environment, environmental risk analysis, pollution, science and public policy, biodiversity, Agent Orange, dioxin.Calvert Index
Environment/Transportation PolicyLegal/Regulatory/Judicial