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

    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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    Corpus-validated findings(as used in philosophy of science and policy)
    Scientific or research results that have been checked and confirmed by a large body of existing evidence and expert review.
    Evidentiary uncertainty(as used in epistemology and policy analysis)
    A situation where there isn't enough clear proof or evidence to make a definitive conclusion about something.
    Industry actors(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    Companies, corporations, or business groups that have a stake in what policies get made.
    Policy influence(as used in political philosophy)
    The power to shape or change laws, regulations, and government decisions.
    structural injustice(Powers and Faden 2019)

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