1. Soft Law: New Tools for Governing Emerging Technologies;Marchant;Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,2017
2. The “because” logic can precede the actual decision, or it can be ginned up after the fact to rationalize a decision that was oblivious to the evidence; but whether it's sincere or not, I am concerned here with the nexus between the evidence and the choice
3. Many intermediate levels of detail in between these two poles are of course also possible (for example, four options whose merits are presented only qualitatively, with reference to evidence)
4. I do not offer this as an insult-the value-laden analyses may persist despite a genuine belief in, and heroic efforts to effect, the removal of politics and values from decisions. But this may well be, by definition, a quixotic task
5. The Prospects for Objectivity in Risk Assessment;Rossi;Journal of Value Inquiry,2012