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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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