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... Because scientists, engineers, and other professionals are asked to make determinations on the basis of data that are of highly variable quality with often ambiguous implications for policy and regulation, it is inevitable that the interpretations will be affected by social and political interests (Crandall and Lave, 19811. In the struggle over adoption of a lead standard, scientists confronted each other as partisans.
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