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The entire concept of trying to determine fault in specific cancer cases is bogus. Carcinogens change the odds, but you can never definitively point to one as b
by mikeash 7y ago
The entire concept of trying to determine fault in specific cancer cases is bogus. Carcinogens change the odds, but you can never definitively point to one as being at fault for a particular cancer.
- Digory 7y agoCivil Juries are asked to make a probabilistic decision, not a definitive decision. The filter end up being whether it is "more likely than not, to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty" a cause of the harm.