PEDIATRICS Vol. 92 No. 4 October 1993, pp. 563
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The National Waste Policy Act sets up a scientific trap in which the public is encouraged to demand or expect what is close to certainty (from virtually "flawless science"), and in which scientists and engineers are encouraged to believe or pretend that they can supply it.