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... Indeed, Alice Whittemore (1983) , in an article entitled "Facts and Values in Risk Analysis for Environmental Toxicants," has pointed out that at this "rare event" boundary between science and trans-science, facts and values are always intermingled.
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... It will not do to define a new branch of science, "regulatory science," in which the norms of scientific proof are less demanding than are the norms in ordinary science. A far more honest and straightforward way of dealing with the intrinsic inability of science to predict the occurrence of rare events is to concede this limitation and not to ask of science or scientists more than they are capable of providing.
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