Science is a strong-link problem - by Adam Mastroianni
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Photo cred: my dad There are two kinds of problems in the world: strong-link problems and weak-link problems.1 Weak-link problems are problems where the overall quality depends on how good the worst stuff is. You fix weak-link problems by making the weakest links stronger, or by eliminating them entirely. Food safety, for example, is a weak-link problem. You don’t want to eat anything that will kill you. That’s why it makes sense for the Food and Drug Administration to inspect processing plants, to set standards, and to ban dangerous foods. The upside is that, for example, any frozen…
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