Gori G B
Health Policy Center, Bethesda, MD 20816-1016, USA.
J Clin Epidemiol. 1994 Apr;47(4):325-34. doi: 10.1016/0895-4356(94)90152-x.
The successful campaign against smoking will long be celebrated as a landmark achievement of public health. Recently, a prominent component of this campaign has been the portrayal of environmental tobacco smoke as a major health risk. To this day, however, the scientific basis for this later contention remains speculative. The elevation of heuristic hypotheses into official precepts raises an intriguing ethical question: Should a claim of best intentions justify representing conjecture as scientific knowledge in public policy formulation?
反对吸烟运动的成功将长期作为公共卫生领域的一项里程碑式成就而备受赞誉。最近，这场运动的一个突出部分是将环境烟草烟雾描绘成一种重大健康风险。然而，时至今日，这一后来观点的科学依据仍属推测。将试探性假设提升为官方准则引发了一个有趣的伦理问题：善意的主张是否足以在公共政策制定中将推测当作科学知识来表述？
