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Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by mikeash on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:55PM (#19904863)
The entire concept of trying to determine fault in specific cancer cases is bogus. Carcinogens change the odds, but you can never definitively point to one as being at fault for a particular cancer.
Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by Digory on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:37PM (#19905181)
Civil Juries are asked to make a probabilistic decision, not a definitive decision. The filter end up being whether it is "more likely than not, to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty" a cause of the harm.