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    Inconclusive toxicological evidence that raises science-b... — Carmelics
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    Inconclusive toxicological evidence that raises science-based suspicions about a substance's danger to human health can be unjustifiably excluded from policy influence.

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    • 1.The process of adding findings to the scientific corpus strictly avoids type I errors.
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    • 2.Inconclusive evidence does not meet the threshold for corpus inclusion under this strict standard.
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    • 3.Policy relying only on the corpus therefore cannot incorporate such inconclusive but potentially relevant safety information.
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    • 1.Policy decisions and scientific corpus membership serve distinct epistemic functions with different error-cost asymmetries.
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    • 2.Where false negatives risk irreversible harm to populations, Rawlsian maximin reasoning justifies acting on inconclusive but plausible evidence.
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    • 3.Conflating the standards appropriate for corpus inclusion with those appropriate for precautionary policy commits a category error.
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    • 1.The precautionary principle, as articulated in Wingspread (1998) and defended by Sunstein's critics, holds that uncertainty about harm shifts the burden of proof toward safety.
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    • 2.Restricting policy influence to corpus-validated findings systematically favors industry actors who benefit from prolonged evidentiary uncertainty, constituting a structural injustice.
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    The most obvious way to use scientific information for policy-making is to employ information from the corpus (arrow 2). For many purposes, this is the only sensible thing to do. However, in risk management decisions, exclusive reliance on the corpus may have unwanted consequences. Suppose that toxicological investigations are performed on a substance that has not previously been studied from a toxicological point of view. These investigations turn out to be inconclusive. They give rise to scien
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