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... Indeed, Alice Whittemore (1983) , in an article entitled "Facts and Values in Risk Analysis for Environmental Toxicants," has pointed out that at this "rare event" boundary between science and trans-science, facts and values are always intermingled.
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... The attack here is not on science at the border, in particular, the prediction of the frequency of rare events. At least the more extreme of the sociologists of knowledge claim that the traditional ways of establishing scientific truth by appealing to nature in a disciplined manner are not how science really works even in situations very far from the border between science and trans-science.
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