All scientific work is incomplete — whether it be observational or experimental. All .scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone... The Secret History of the War on Cancer - Página 191de Devra Lee Davis - 2007 - 528 páginasVista previa restringida - Acerca de este libro
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1968 - 78 páginas
...causation available. This philosophy was appropriately expressed by Sir AB Hill ( 1962) when he wrote : "All scientific work is incomplete — whether it...action that it appears to demand at a given time." The lessons of the past in general health and safety practices are easy to read. They are characterized... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Ways and Means - 1970 - 698 páginas
...subject to modification through advances in research. But these truths cannot be used as an excuse to ignore the knowledge we already have or to postpone the action that such knowledge appears to demand at a given time. Reversing the tide of environmental pollution will... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1970 - 574 páginas
...subject to modification through advances in research. But these truths cannot be used as an excuse to ignore the knowledge we already have or to postpone the action that such knowledge appears to demand at a given time. Reversing the tide of environmental pollution will... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1974 - 1320 páginas
...'t' and swords with every critic before we act. "All scientific work is incomplete — whether ¡t be observational or experimental. All scientific work...action that it appears to demand at a given time."* These quotations provide satisfying support of my view of our obligation to study and subsequently... | |
| United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control - 1974 - 196 páginas
...liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us freedom to lower the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time. The lessons of the past in general health and safety practices are easy to read. They are characterized... | |
| Julie E. Buring - 1987 - 408 páginas
...or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. This does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge...given time. Who knows, asked Robert Browning, but that the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on... | |
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