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... Dealing With Uncertainty About Risk in Risk Management CHRIS G WHIPPLE Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.
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... . Properly applied, a de minimis risk concept can help set priorities for bringing regulatory attention to risk in a socially beneficial way.
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