Evidentiary Procedures for Carcinogen Risk Assessment

美国社会已经采用并调整了科学技术， 社会控制风险的目的。 这些技术包括 许多潜在的巨大不确定性。 他们还提供 无数不同的社会目标--科学的准确性，社会的 可接受性，及时决策的必要性，一致性， 时间、对有关各方公平、保护公众 健康和环境等等--尽管大多数评论员 只强调科学准确性的目的。 该法 制定了一些证据程序，以指导决策 在不确定的情况下，为许多社会目标服务法律的 系统有。 利用法律的各个方面作为模型， 一个跨学科小组的目标是设计证据规则， 致癌物风险评估，可以帮助减少一些 不确定性，更好地服务于风险的一些社会目标 考核 这项研究涉及确定哪些证据 在法律的程序中使用的规则可加以调整， 致癌物风险评估和审查其采用的影响 可能对这些评估的社会目标有什么影响。 在此 阶段，研究将集中在服务于科学的目标， 准确性和快速性，这可能会发生冲突， 可服务于风险评估其他目标的程序， 裁定相互冲突的目标和证据程序。 结果 将通过演讲和适当的学术交流传播 公共政策期刊。 这种方法为风险评估提供了更广阔的视角。 它 认识到其中固有的重大不确定性， 一个全面的应对方式，并提供一些更广泛的 思考这个过程的替代方案。 这个项目涉及 生物化学家/药理学家，统计学家， 环境工程师、资源经济学家和法律的哲学家。 课题非常重要;科研团队，素质过硬; 机构支持是好的。 结果可能会很高 质量和广泛传播。 因此，支持 推荐

U.S. society has adopted and adapted scientific techniques for purposes of social control of risk. These techniques incorporate numerous, and potentially large, uncertainties. They also serve numerous, different social goals--scientific accuracy, social acceptability, the need for timely decisions, consistency over time, fairness to the parties concerned, protection of public health and environments, etc.--although most commentators have emphasized only the aim of scientific accuracy. The law has developed a number of evidentiary procedures to guide decision making under uncertainty and to serve the many social goals a legal system has. Using aspects of the law as a model, this interdisciplinary team aims to design evidentiary rules for carcinogen risk assessment that can help to reduce some of the uncertainties and serve better some of the social goals of risk assessment. The research involves determining which evidentiary rules used in legal proceedings might be adapted for use in carcinogen risk assessments and examining the impact their adoption might have on the social goals of these assessments. During this phase, research will focus on serving the goals of scientific accuracy and expeditiousness, which may conflict, and on developing procedures that can serve other goals of risk assessment and adjudicate conflicting goals and evidentiary procedures. Results will be disseminated in presentations and via appropriate scholarly and public policy journals. This approach offers a broader perspective on risk assessment. It recognizes the substantial uncertainties inherent in it, provides a comprehensive way of coping with them and offers some wider alternatives for thinking about the process. This project involves a collaboration between a biochemist/pharmacologist, statistician, environmental engineer, resource economist and legal philosopher. The topic is very important; the research team, well qualified; institutional support is good. Results are likely to be of high quality and broadly disseminated. Support is therefore recommended.