“…The argument from inductive risk asserts that scientists' decisions about what evidence is sufficient for accepting hypotheses can have ethically significant consequences and therefore that ethical values can be relevant to such decisions (Braithewaite, 1953;Churchman, 1948;Cranor, 1993;Douglas, 2000Douglas, , 2009Elliott, 2011Elliott, , 2013Elliott & McKaughan, 2014;Hempel, 1965;Jeffrey, 1956;Levi, 1960Levi, , 1962Levi, , 1967Nagel, 1961;Rudner, 1953;Shrader-Frechette, 1991;Steel, 2010;Steel & Whyte, 2012). One classic line of objection to the argument from inductive risk, due to Jeffrey (1956), insists that accepting and rejecting hypotheses is not the business of scientists.…”