Tuesday, April 2

Society's difficulty with managing risk has caused safety to become one of Western society's fundamental values; people find it difficult to accept that some injuries cannot be prevented. As a result, scientific findings may come to be evaluated differently, particularly when a wide range of groups have great political and financial interest in a particular risk being considered hazardous. Regardless of whether something is a health risk, cultural mistrust of it can turn it into a liability risk.

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