... questions of scientific ethics and regulatory stonewalling ,42 and risk exaggeration .43 (See References 42 through 48 as examples.) This confused Pfiesteria–fish kill causality assessment is not an isolated ... suboptimal assessment process Certainly, risk assessments for alar on apples49,50 and climatic change51 were at least as important and as garbled 4. 7.2.2 A Bayesian Vantage for the Pfiesteria-Induced ... blooms, nutrient runoff, and farming on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Cult Agric., 21, 53, 1999 49 Ames, B.N and Gold, L.S., Pesticides, risk, and applesauce, Science, 244 , 755, 1989 50 Groth, E.,...