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Epidemiology in the Courtroom

Dissonant Goals, Divergent Processes

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The task before us is more daunting still when the dispute concerns matters at the very cutting edge of scientific research, where fact meets theory and certainty dissolves into probability. As the record in this case illustrates, scientists often have vigorous and sincere disagreements as to what research methodology is proper, what should be accepted as sufficient proof for the existence of a “fact,” and whether information derived by a particular method can tell us anything useful about the subject under study (Judge Alex Kozinski, Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 1995: 43 F.3d at 1316).

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