Product Description: Attempting to reconcile the law's need for workable rules of evidence with the views of scientific validity and reliability.What is "scientific knowledge" and when is it reliable? These deceptively simple questions have been the source of endless controversy...read more

Product Description: Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps unprovable, yet they raise real problems at the interface of science and the law. Phantom Risk surveys a dozen scientific issues that have led to public controversy and litigation - among them, miscarriage from the use of video display terminals, birth defects in children whose mothers used the drug Bendectin, and cancer from low-intensity magnetic fields, and from airborne asbestos...read more