Therefore people themselves become small, private alternative experts in risks of modernization. For them, risks are not risks, but pitifully suffering, screaming children turning blue. It is the children they fight for. Modernization risks, for which no one is responsible in highly professionalized system where everyone has his own small responsibility, now have an advocate. The parents begin to collect data and arguments. The ‘blank spots’ of modernization risks, which remain ‘unseen’ and ‘unproven’ for the experts, very quickly take form under their cognitive approach. They discover, for instance, that the established acceptable values for pollutants in Germany are much too high. Although investigations have shown that children suffer pseudo-croup surprisingly often even at a short-term level of 200 micrograms of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, twice that amount is permissible according to the prevailing prescribed values in Germany. This is four times as much as the World Health Organization considers acceptable as a short-term value. Parents prove that measurement results only fall within the ‘acceptable’ scope because the peak values from heavily impacted neighborhoods are averaged in with values from wooded residential neighborhoods and so ‘calculated away’ ‘But our children’, they say, ‘are not getting sick from the average value.’