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Risk & Insurance, June, 2004 by Michelle Kerr

Leamon says those who oppose the ergonomics standard have been particularly sly in demanding scientific criteria to justify the need.

"They say 'If you can tell us what the criteria is, then it's bad science,' and that's a silly question in my professional view. I don't know a single standard in any field where that applies. How can it? What is a safe level of radiation? Well, it depends. Depends on your genes, depends how big you are. It depends. What do you think the evidence is for the benzene standard? What do you think the evidence is for clean air standards? What do you think the evidence is on any standard? It's all based on 16 rats, anyway."

--Michelle Kerr