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... This is among our principal purposes. Those who easily use words like safety have discovered, I hope, how difficult it is to establish what the word means in any given context and, having stated what is meant, how difficult it is to establish whether something really is or is not safe.
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... Wessel was saying -- is accustoming the nonscientific public to speaking in quantitative terms. Safety and risk always require definition, and no law known to me has ever specified what those words really mean.
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