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Sir, - I find Dr. Weinberg's distinction between science and trans-science a useful one for discussing political controversies having scientific or technical aspects.1 However, I think the concept of trans-science would be clearer if a further distinction were made between questions which are inherently unanswerable by the institutional mechanisms of science and those which are currently unanswerable because of limitations in the contemporary state of scientific knowledge. In his examples Dr. Weinberg mixes together these two distinct kinds of trans-science.
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