What is "scientific knowledge" and when is it reliable? These deceptively simplequestions have been the source of endless controversy. In 1993, the Supreme Court handed down alandmark ruling on the us
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in t
Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps unprovable, yetthey raise real problems at the interface of science and the law. Phantom Risk surveys a dozenscientific issues that
