The manufacture of uncertainty in the minds of the public, as a ploy on

[Joe Chi Minh]

the part of large corporations, to vitiate or fillet safety regulations relating to their products.

Corporate behemoths have apparently taken a leaf out of the book of the clandestine services' 'black ops', with the deliberate manufacture of a spurious uncertainty, and evidently with no little success.

The regulation of products of large corporations is being stymied by this very deliberate process of questioning with pseudo-science already well-verified scientific studies.

Below is the link to an invaluable overview of the problem, currenty appearing on the CommonDreams.org website:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/29/7963/

[annabanana]

1. "The Science is still out on that"

Clench whenever you hear those words, because it probably means you're going to get reamed.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. I suspect I already clenched when I saw those words, Anna!!!

I'm amazed at the apparent complacency of otherwise intelligent people, concerning the use of cell-phones and hand-held phones, after a study on rats (which common sense would seem to suggest very strongly leaves scant room for doubt) establishes ground for real concern. A moderator seemed to think it needed peer-reviewing before it could be taken seriously enough to throw them away.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3080932