Translation of "Scientific uncertainty" in German

The triggering factor is likely to be scientific uncertainty, rather than certainty.

There is scientific uncertainty about the risks and benefits of nanomaterials used for devices.

In case of scientific uncertainty, the precautionary principle should be applied.

What are the stakeholders' preferences in the face of scientific uncertainty?

The economic burden and scientific uncertainty are also discussed.

Firstly, scientific uncertainty about the nature and extent of the risks is increasing.

The manufacturing of scientific uncertainty endangers the public’s health, as well as programs to protect public health and to compensate victims.

The four ESTO reports will be published shortly and will give a comprehensive description of scientific uncertainty.

Mr President, I think - and this also emerged from what the Commissioner said - that we are operating in an area of scientific uncertainty and many questions.

In fact, the sensitivity and difficulty of the subject, scientific uncertainty, the unprecedented nature of the moral questions confronting us all, and the risk of restricting and sacrificing research, confer on the two European parliamentary assemblies an extra degree of responsibility and trust, for the very reason that they are broadly representative of different cultures, diverse sensibilities and the richest, widest-ranging ethical values.

1.from the outset, the Commission's strategy was the wrong one, in that it attempted to minimise information and smother any discussion about the disease in order to avoid a reaction by consumers if ever they found out the facts and scientific uncertainty.

If there is scientific uncertainty as to the harmfulness of a substance, the government must be free to give consumers the benefit of the precautionary principle.

As I said before, when scientific uncertainty persists it is up to the politicians to make a decision.

Some of us believe that biotechnology has a glorious future ahead, whilst others are sceptical and point to the dangers, the risks and the scientific uncertainty.

As politicians we have a duty to inform ourselves before being dogmatic and proscriptive on matters of medical and scientific research, albeit with the regulatory tool of the precautionary principle for areas of scientific uncertainty available to us.

It is evident that such provisions enable situations of scientific uncertainty to be dealt with, an approach that the countries of the South do not have the resources to undertake as impartially as ourselves.

It is up to the Member States to ensure that scientific uncertainty is not transformed into a futile problem of social uncertainty in the face of the risks, or even to lay the foundations for an acceptable co-existence of GMO and non-GMO cultures.

Scientific uncertainty about their measurable effects on health is thus being used as an argument for doing nothing.

Without such agreement we will constantly be faced, not just with scientific uncertainty but with opposing views on the science.

The information necessary for this is still limited, though sufficient to state that there no longer exists any scientific uncertainty that human beings are causing the earth's climate to become warmer.

The measures shall be reviewed within a reasonable period of time, depending on the nature of the risk to life or health identified and the type of scientific information needed to clarify the scientific uncertainty and to conduct a more comprehensive risk assessment.

Precautionary policymakers invoke scientific uncertainty to curb technological innovation, whereas their proactionary counterparts encourage innovation as an extension of scientific hypothesis testing.

Nevertheless, much scientific “uncertainty” about the causes of disease is not real, but manufactured.