Clearly this cannot be objectified based on (the review of) scientific findings: ambiguity will potentially always be part of the game.
These concerns include issues such as corporate control over seed markets and the food chain, consumers' and farmers' right to know and choose, the coexistence of different agricultural production systems, intellectual property rights, power relations, scientific uncertainties, ambiguities and values underlying the knowledge development and concerns about the human domination of nature [27 29].
Second, also the complexity of environmental health problems increases scientific uncertainty and ambiguity.
Dealing with linear risk issues (which are associated with low scores for complexity, scientific uncertainty, and sociopolitical ambiguity), requires hardly any changes to conventional public policy-making.
The story of Aum is as strange as it is tragic, but it serves as an important reminder about the ambiguity of scientific advancement and the democratization of high technology.
Indeed, in the face of scientific uncertainty and ethical ambiguity, ideological perspectives and short-term political considerations often supplant efforts to devise effective long-term interventions [ 28, 37].
Not only can scientific interpretations have an ambiguous component, but ambiguity also emerges with regard to selection of appropriate values, priorities, assumptions, ethics, distributions of risk, and quality of life parameters to be applied.
Mr. Powers, brainy to the point of fusing his readers' circuits, if not his own, is unmatched among our first-rank novelists in connecting the new ambiguities of scientific theory to the old relativities of the heart.
Ambiguity and redolence are what make even photographs like these, conceived as scientific documents, into aesthetic artifacts, ambiguity being the root of their claim to the status of art, never mind how homely they may look.
