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Opinion
Nature 416, 247 (21 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416247b
In search of sound science
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Abstract
Quality standards for US federal research could be useful — but only if industry acts in good faith.
'Sound science' is one of those phrases repeated so often by politicians in recent years that it has come close to losing all meaning. In endless debates over this or that piece of environmental or health regulation, each side invokes 'sound science' to mean anything that supports its end of the argument.
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