^^^Furthermore, the fact that the legal and scientific systems run on drastically different criteria may account for the "flawed" EPA study. It frequently occurs that what is statistically significant say at the <.05 level, (meaning that there is less than a 5% chance that the result occured by chance alone) is not the same as PROVING something to a court.
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