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Nature 449, 989 (25 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449989a; Published online 24 October 2007

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Science & politics Fishing for certainty

Andrew A. Rosenberg1

  1. Andrew A. Rosenberg is professor of natural resources at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Morse Hall 142, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA.

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Science advisers should have confidence in their data, or risk being undermined by more dogmatic and vociferous stakeholders during the policy-making process.

Policy-makers receive formal and informal advice from all quarters: scientific, legal, political and public. Each piece of advice is considered mandatory by the giver, and it often conflicts with other advisers' points of view.

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