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Environmental sociology

arguments that demand impossible levels of scientific proof before regulation, so that ordinary uncertainty works against protective action.

In environmental sociology, scientific certainty argumentation methods refers to arguments that demand impossible levels of scientific proof before regulation, so that ordinary uncertainty works against protective action. This meaning comes from Freudenburg (2008) in Sociological Inquiry.[1]

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Freudenburg, W. R., Gramling, R., & Davidson, D. J. (2008). Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods (SCAMs): Science and the Politics of Doubt. Sociological Inquiry, 78(1), 2-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.2008.00219.x

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