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Questions Remain in Reuters Photo Cropping Incidents

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Cato the Elder6/09/2010 4:03:27 pm PDT

re: #587 windsagio

Still have to hold my position on that tho’.

As much as it sucks for the people that work in the field, they have to prove they can stop another catastrophe effectively before we can let them get going again.

You can never prove in advance that a catastrophe cannot happen. You might be able to prove that the same exact concatenation of events would be manageable, but the next catastrophe will almost certainly be different in origin and outcome.

Taken to an extreme, the “precautionary principle” = paralysis.