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the defendant caused the damage.
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Think about that with respect to the standard of proof
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required if you wanted to submit a paper to Science magazine.
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Well, you'd be asked questions about
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what's your confidence interval?
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Do you have ninety-five percent confidence in the causal
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relationship that you're hypothesizing?
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Or is it ninety-nine percent confidence?
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So that the standard of proof that is applied
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before a decision is made is a critical issue,
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and this can be adjusted if you're designing law.
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Also national sovereignty to regulate foreign hazards.