Titlebook: Rethinking the BSE Crisis; A Study of Scientifi Louise Cummings Book 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Epidemiological.Epidemi

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,BSE – A Leap Into The Unknown,ongiform encephalopathy (BSE), this disease joined a group of pre-existing pathologies called the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). TSEs were known to affect a wide range of mammalian vertebrates, including humans. Yet, their study prior to 1986 had occupied something of a twilight z

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The Scientific Challenge,of reasoning could be shown to facilitate scientific inquiry into BSE when little was known about this new brain disease in cattle. The point was made that these argument forms have relevance to the epidemiologists and public health scientists whose task it was to identify and respond to this emergi

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Arguing Through Uncertainty, in the sense that BSE was caused by the transmission of scrapie to cattle. The evidence in support of this claim, I argued, was not without its weaknesses. The result was a rather tentative claim that was certainly grounds enough for proceeding in inquiry, but still fell some way short of the type

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Political and Commercial Interests in the BSE Inquiry, vast range of other factors that have an influence on the reasoning process. These factors, which include psychological states and emotions as well as a range of vested interests, are as significant determinants of the reasoning process as are the logical factors that have traditionally been the fo

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Learning the Lessons of the BSE Crisis,and then transmit to humans, a scenario which by August 2009 had cost 164 people their lives in the UK and which has resulted in an unknown number of other people incubating variant CJD (vCJD). The economic damage caused by this disease has been considerable. In April 2000, the government estimated

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The Unravelling of an Argumentative Strategy,rized as informal fallacies. These strategies, which included question-begging argument and the argument from ignorance, conferred a number of gains upon inquiry and placed several new modes of reasoning at the disposal of scientific investigators.

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