Scientific and Social Rationality
Herein lies the essential and momentous consequence : in definitions of risks the sciences monopoly on rationality is broken. The are always competing and conflicting claims, interests and viewpoints of the various agents of modernity and affected groups, which are forced together in defining risk in the sense of cause and effect , instigation and injured party. There is no expert on risk. Many scientists do go to work with the entire impetus and pathos of their objective rationality , and their effort to be objective grows in proportion to the political content content of their definitions.