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cjel-5779	Finkel, Adam M.	Is Risk Assessment Really Too Conservative?: Revising the Revisionists	2020	42	.pdf	application/pdf	15836	569	46	[Vol. 14:427 The denunciation of QRA as an ideologically-motivated exer- cise in exaggeration has cropped up from time to time,6 begin- ning even before United States federal agencies started to codify their QRA procedures.7 Only in the past year or two, however, has a critical mass of scientific experts converged to the view that the time has come to reevaluate these procedures, and the first tangible results of this revisionist stance are even more recent.8 Linked temporally and perhaps causally to this growing momen- tum against conservatism in QRA is the view that science has at last begun to offer practical and defensible alternatives to what Anderson calls overestimated theoretical risk, that is, the pro- duction of risk estimates via a process critics claim is rife with sci- entific shortcomings.9 The critics of conservatism are a diverse group. In this view, now that science has begun to develop tech- niques for making risk estimates more accurate, these should re- place conservative estimates, as surely as the Copernican model of the solar system replaced the Ptolemaic model.	cache/cjel-5779.pdf	txt/cjel-5779.txt