What we've learned from the scandals that have beset Silicon Valley of late is what we learned from the scandals that beset the Catholic Church: a self-protective assumption of righteousness can make it harder to acknowledge and confront patterns of abuse.
Health-protective default assumptions that are used to compensate for uncertainties should not be dismissed based on untested propositions that likely incur greater risks.
On the other hand, our results support the protective effect assumption of magnesium and the mortality risk due to cardiovascular diseases (Rubenowitz et al. 1996, 2000).
Let it be sufficient to cite Thomas Kuhn's idea of "enduring paradigms," where in periods of normal science scientists are not willing to falsify and abandon their fundamental idea, the paradigm they are working in; or Imre Lakatos, for whom "research programmes" are capable of defending their core principles by means of a protective belt of auxiliary assumptions exposed to falsification.
The estimates are based on standard assumptions about protective clothing worn by workers and the absorption rates for pesticides through the skin or inhalation.
Clergy are increasingly wary of the presumption of "clergy confidentiality" as well as assumptions about the protective nature of the separation of church and state.
Our result of the high Ca Mg ratio in local groundwater associated with an increasing risk of AMI is compatible with previously presented assumptions about a protective role of hard water against CVD (Sauvant and Pepin 2002).
Given that the TTC values, excluded categories, and exposure estimates used in TTC decision frameworks incorporate protective or upper bound risk assumptions, exceeding a threshold value does not necessarily imply a risk to health.
Within the Kennedy organization there was an assumption that the protective bubble around Carter-a bubble produced by the crisis in Iran and Afghanistan-would burst, but there was concern that it would not burst in time.
