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... How Science Reacts to Intrinsic Uncertainty Does the scientific community accept the notion that there are intrinsic limits to what it can say about rare events? That as events become rarer, the uncertainty in the probability of occurrence of a rare event is bound to grow?
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... 16 ALVIN M WEINBERG the tools of scientific investigation of rare events say, probabilistic risk assessment and large-scale animal experimentation as surrogate for epidemiological inquiry if we concede that we can never get definitive answers?
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