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David Ozonoff, MD, MPH

The author is with the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to David Ozonoff, MD, MPH, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118 (e-mail: dozonoff{at}bu.edu).

In the legal setting, "cause" is composed of at least two distinct components, of which only one is related to "causality" as scientists understand it.

I argue that the alleged separation of the social issue of "scope of responsibility" from the objective question of scientific causality is illusory. "Scientific causality" also plays an essential social role in the legal setting.

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