Byline: PETER J. LEVIN
The anthrax mailings and the latest debate over the efficacy of mammography for screening breast cancer might seem to have little in common. But they do. Both scenarios question the certainty -- the faith -- in science most Americans take for granted.
The mailer of the spore-laced letters remains a mystery. Politicians, public health officials, physicians and the media are confronted with a nightmare scenario in which solid information about the provenance and treatment of the disease is incomplete and uncertain. The general public has expressed concern that scientists and others offered as infectious disease experts seem lost, or have …
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