Editor's Summary
1 November 2007
Partiality, science and policy
While society and policy makers demand ever more science-based evidence, Sheila Jassanoff cautions on the partiality of scientific knowledge and the need for disciplined methods to accommodate this irredeemable uncertainty.
Essay: Technologies of humility
Researchers and policy-makers need ways for accommodating the partiality of scientific knowledge and for acting under the inevitable uncertainty it holds.
Sheila Jasanoff
doi:10.1038/450033a
